All-Age Complex and Continuing Care are a team of clinical, business, commissioning specialists who provide continuing healthcare (CHC) children and young people’s continuing care (CYPCC) and complex care commissioning to individuals across the Thames Valley footprint.
Our operating model has three main areas of activity,
Neighbourhood teams work alongside health and social care partners within the community assessing, reviewing and case managing care for adults and children within Oxford, Buckinghamshire or Berkshire, working directly with individuals and families.
Central services teams act as the front door and end to end service delivery, managing referrals into the service, business, administration and invoicing functions. Working closely with individuals and their families.
Commissioning Contracting and Brokerage team work closely with care providers and social care to commission individualised care for individuals.
The post holder will lead the management, oversight and delivery of Complex Care individualised commissioning working closely with the AACCC Head of All Age Continuing Care (AACC) Commissioning, Contracting and Brokerage.
Working within the remit of individulised commissioning policies, the post holder will deliver a cost effective, efficient, competent service that consistently delivers best practice individual focused care to all patients.
The Head of Complex Commissioning is part of the AACCC senior management team responsible for setting direction and transformation within AACCC services.
The Commissioning Strategy Work stream aims to deliver ‘whole system’ improvement through identifying efficiencies across the commissioning landscape, working closely with ICB commissioners, procurement teams and contracting teams to develop best practices.
Please note it is proposed that this post will be in scope to transfer to Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) on the 1 September 2026. If you are appointed prior to 1 September 2026, you will join Thames Valley ICB initially, but it is proposed that your employment will then transfer to FHFT in accordance with TUPE/ CoSOP regulations. If your start date is on or after the 1 September 2026 it is planned that you will be employed directly by FHFT from commencement.
The post holder will have responsibility for the strategic delivery of the Complex Care commissioning strategy work stream ensuring that it is well led, coordinated and delivers to time, meeting its aims and goals. In particular, the post holder will:
Develop and deliver strategic commissioning planning and transformational developments.
Develop service improvement in the commissioning of complex care services and care packages, ensuring provider collaboration and seeking robust provider management.
Contribute to the development of other interdependent AACCC strategies.
Participate in the required AACCC governance arrangements to contribute to successful AACCC delivery.
Working with providers and clinical experts to design new training.
Commissioning and service development responsibilities will be delegated and assigned across the team, by the postholder, ensuring skills are updated and developed regularly across staff members.
The postholder will lead on Commissioning development, joint commissioning of services with Local Authorities and roll-out and management of Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) with the Local Authority.
The postholder will work jointly with the Head of Commissioning Contracting and Brokerage to ensure that the Commissioning, Contracting and Brokerage for complex care services are well managed with appropriate governance and assurance measures in place to protect both staff and people engaging with AACCC.
The postholder will encourage a highly skilled workforce by identifying and commissioning training and development opportunities for staff at all levels
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring their and their team’s, mandatory training is completed and kept up to date.
The job description and person specification are an outline of the task, responsibilities and outcomes of the role. The post holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing requirements of the AACC service and the ICB.
