Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Contract Manager
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Job Overview
Are you an experienced contracts professional with a strong understanding of NHS contracting, excellent negotiation skills and a passion for delivering value through effective partnership working?
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity to join our Income and Contracts Team. In this influential role, you will manage a portfolio of small to mid-sized acute contracts worth approximately £40 million, while supporting the Associate Director of Income and Contracts and the Contracts Lead with the management of contracts valued at around £1 billion.
Main Duties of the Job
You will play a key role in negotiating, implementing and monitoring contracts that support high-quality patient care and the Trust's strategic and financial objectives. Working closely with commissioners, partner organisations and internal stakeholders, you will help maximise income opportunities, ensure contractual compliance and contribute to the delivery of sustainable healthcare services.
This role is ideal for an individual with significant experience of the NHS Contract and NHS Payment Scheme, together with expertise in contract schedules, income and activity modelling, and stakeholder management. Commercial contracting experience would be an advantage.
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Visa Sponsorship
This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the right to work in the UK for the full duration of the contract.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first-class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work-life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
As a key member of the Income and Contracts Team, you will:
- Lead the negotiation, implementation and ongoing management of a portfolio of NHS and non-NHS contracts, ensuring they deliver value for money and support the Trust's strategic priorities.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with commissioners, healthcare providers and other partners to support collaborative working and successful contract delivery.
- Monitor contractual performance by analysing activity, finance and quality data, identifying risks and opportunities, and ensuring contractual obligations are met.
- Produce high-quality reports and present complex contractual and performance information to senior managers, commissioners and Trust committees.
- Support the development of income modelling, contract schedules and business cases to maximise income and inform strategic decision-making.
- Provide specialist advice on NHS contracting, national policy and contractual compliance to colleagues across the Trust.
- Contribute to procurement exercises, commercial opportunities, tender submissions and service development initiatives.
- Support robust contract governance, risk management and continuous service improvement to ensure high standards of performance and compliance.
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For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification or experience in a health or business-related discipline.
- Post-graduate qualification or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- Project Management skills (e.g. MSP/Prince2).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Considerable experience in one or more of the following areas: Information Analysis, Contract Management, Commissioning or Business Management.
- Demonstrable experience of interpreting and analysing national guidance and/or requirements.
- Experience of delivering training to small multi-disciplinary groups.
- Demonstrable experience of critically evaluating processes and recommending change.
Desirable criteria
- Acute Trust experience.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of technical contracting requirements.
- Experience and understanding of the contract negotiations framework within the NHS and impact on the business planning cycle.
- Ability to build relationships and communicate with stakeholders across organisational boundaries internal and external to the Trust.
- Ability to represent the Trust in contract negotiations with external stakeholders, including negotiating within the agreed boundaries to reach agreement.
- Demonstrable examples of analysing and interpreting complex, sensitive and contentious information, including presenting information to a wide range of audiences.
- Ability to use Word, Excel and Contract Management software to create contract summary reports, monitoring reports and contract performance reports.
- Demonstrate a professional attitude with personal credibility, assertiveness, and self-confidence.
- Able to resolve conflict in a calm and professional manner.
- Must be able to also demonstrate experience in managing potentially contentious situations with staff and stakeholders, in particular the contract negotiation element of the role.
- Ability to manage a diverse portfolio of contracts and projects.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including clinical and executive colleagues.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to assimilate non-verbal communication.
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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT)
FHFT is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, saving time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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