Head of Value Measurement and Outcome Analytics

Head of Value Measurement and Outcome Analytics

This is a rare opportunity for an enthusiastic, values driven and strategic thinker to join the Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull ICB cluster at an exciting time as it develops its role as Strategic Commissioner focused on providing system leadership for population health, setting evidence based and long-term population heath strategy and working as healthcare payers to deliver this, maximising the value that can be created from available resources.

The postholder will be a key member of the value-based finance function, supporting the ICB to make the best use of resources and improve equity to ensure a marked difference in patient outcomes. You will act as senior ambassador for value-based finance building strong relationships across finance, commissioning strategy and partner organisations to embed value based approaches across the system.

In this role you will have significant responsibility for enabling the ICB to robustly assess the financial and outcome impact of commissioned services and local service provision.

Key responsibilities include -

• overseeing the analysis of health and care resource utilisation at place, locality and neighbourhood level, across healthcare programmes and settings, identifying unwarranted variation and opportunities to improve outcomes and productivity.
• Developing and maintaining return on investment (ROI) and benefits realisation tools to evaluate investment, disinvestment and transformation initiatives
• Leading the benchmarking and comparative analysis of ICB and provider expenditure, productivity and published performance data to identify opportunities for efficiency, financial improvement and reinvestment.
• Generating new potential measures of productivity, including pathway productivity, where these do not already exist or are not suitable for use
• Providing analytical and financial support to market management activities
• Providing robust financial and value based analysis to support population health investment and prevention.
• Translating complex analytical outputs into actionable insights for senior stakeholders, programmes and committees, supporting informed decision making on value, outcomes and resource allocation.
• Ensuring analytical methodologies, assumptions and outputs are transparent, evidence based and consistent with national best practice.

Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull Integrated Care System bring together the NHS, councils and voluntary sector to serve 2.7 million people. Our vision is to be the healthiest place to live and work, improving life chances and reducing inequalities.

You will model system values, champion inclusion and actively address health inequalities, helping create an environment where everyone can thrive. In return, the Cluster offers a supportive, ambitious and inclusive environment with opportunities to develop and work across partners to deliver meaningful change.

The ICB is committed to having a workforce which is representative of the population of Birmingham, the Black Country, and Solihull Cluster. Our current staffing profile demonstrates that we are not as representative as we would like to be at this level within the organisation. We would actively welcome applications from women and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds for this role.

The ICB is registered as a Disability Confident Employer. We actively welcome applications from applicants with a disability and commit to shortlisting all such suitable applicants who meet the essential criteria for an interview. Please let us know of any reasonable adjustments you require to participate in the recruitment process.

You will be accountable for

• Operation of the ICB value and outcomes measurement framework, enabling the ICB to robustly assess the financial and outcome impact of commissioned services and local service provision.
• In partnership with Business Intelligence and Commissioning teams, overseeing the analysis of health and care resource utilisation at place, locality and neighbourhood level, across healthcare programmes and settings, identifying unwarranted variation and opportunities to improve outcomes and productivity.
• Developing and maintaining return on investment (ROI) and benefits realisation tools to evaluate investment, disinvestment and transformation initiatives across the system.
• Leading the benchmarking and comparative analysis of ICB and provider expenditure, productivity and published performance data to identify opportunities for efficiency, financial improvement and reinvestment.
• Generating new potential measures of productivity, including pathway productivity, where these do not already exist or are not suitable for use
• Providing analytical and financial support to market management activities, working with contracting and procurement teams to identify gaps, inefficiencies or dysfunction in market provision; support providers to improve service…