NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board
Job summary
NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly and NHS Devon are responsible for planning, funding and improving NHS services for the people of Devon, Plymouth, Torbay, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
With an annual budget of around £5 billion, our purpose is to improve health, tackle inequalities and ensure services remain sustainable for future generations.
Since 2025, our two organisations have been working together, with a shared board, leadership team and staffing structure. While both ICBs remain separate statutory organisations, we operate as a single team to address some of the biggest challenges facing health and care across the peninsula.
At the heart of our work is partnership. We work closely with NHS trusts, primary care, local authorities, universities, the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector, and many others to develop local services.
We also involve people with lived experience to shape services around the needs of communities across Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Through these partnerships, we support innovation, improve access to care and help create healthier places where people can thrive.
Covering a diverse geography of cities, towns, rural communities and island populations, we stand together with a shared purpose: to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we serve.
Main duties of the job
The clinical contracting and procurement team provide a comprehensive contract management (including performance management) and procurement function on behalf of the ICB across Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly for all clinical service contracts. The team support all clinical procurements. The team provides advice, including advising on risk, for areas in their scope. They proactively manage the procurement workplan. They ensure necessary governance is in place and is effectively managed for all areas of their responsibility, negotiating (including finance) contract details.
As part of this role, there will be a requirement to work in a matrix and flexible way across multiple areas/teams to support business needs. The objectives of the role will be regularly reviewed to align to organisational priorities.
Person Specification
Qualifications and training
Essential
- Educated to masters’ level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Evidence of continued professional development
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through a post graduate qualification or equivalent experience or training.
- Experience in navigating and interpreting procurement legislation.
- An understanding of the relationship between NHS organisations and wider system, regional and national organisations.
- Ability to oversee and be responsible for a budget for a department and/or service.
- Must be able to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required, to aid decision making.
- Skilled communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
- Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence where there may be barriers to understanding.
- Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
- Ability to analyse very complex issues, facts and situations where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources and develop a range of options in response.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- Experience of managing risks and reporting.
- Experience of developing briefing papers and correspondence at SLT or chief officer level.
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
- Evidence of success in efficient and effective project and programme management.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
- Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve improved performance (advising on policy implementation, where applicable) .
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and managing successful projects.
- Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
Closing Date: 22 November 2026
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