NHS Kent & Medway
Commissioning Manager
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Role Overview
Are you passionate about shaping high-quality services that make a real difference to people's lives? Join our dynamic MHLDA Commissioning Team and play a pivotal role in improving outcomes for adults across Kent and Medway.
As a senior commissioning leader, you will drive strategic planning, service transformation, and performance management across a diverse portfolio of Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism services. Working closely with system partners, local authorities, providers, and key stakeholders, you will translate national policy into impactful commissioning plans that improve access, quality, and patient outcomes.
You'll lead service redesign, manage complex budgets and contracts, use data and insight to tackle health inequalities, and ensure services deliver value while meeting statutory and ICB priorities.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, collaborative leader who thrives on innovation, partnership working, and delivering meaningful change across health and care systems. If you're ready to influence the future of mental health services and make a lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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Key Responsibilities
- Delivery of the ICB's commissioning intentions for Children and Young People's Mental Health.
- Development of the Young Adults Programme and transition pathways.
- Supporting service transformation and improvement programmes.
- Contract and performance management of commissioned services.
- Partnership working across the wider Kent and Medway system.
- Development of commissioning strategies, business cases and governance papers.
- Using data, intelligence and insight to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities.
About Us
We are committed to a culture that supports all staff at NHS Kent and Medway to be the best version of themselves.
Our ability to improve outcomes for our population depends on how effectively clinical, operational, financial and strategic professionals work together to make informed commissioning decisions. That’s why our workforce works a minimum of two days-a-week on-site, with the expectation that all one-to-ones are held face-to-face and that colleagues will regularly visit the services we are commissioning to understand more about them.
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We believe regular on-site working supports stronger collaboration, faster problem-solving, peer learning, visible leadership and the integration of colleagues into our organisation. We also know that culture is built through shared experiences and day-to-day interactions.
We are a flexible working friendly organisation; we aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
How to Apply
Interviews will be held face to face in Ashford.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Suzanne Mullin
- Job title: Associate Director MHLDA
- Email address: suemullin@nhs.net
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