Children's Commissioning Support

Lead and coordinate the transition of children's community services from Royal Berkshire Hospital (RBH) to Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT), ensuring safe mobilisation, governance and stakeholder engagement. Supporting the implementation of the Experts at Hand model, offering a central co-ordination and system wide view including a core minimum data set and developing the commissioning arrangements for Berkshire West. Leading the Berkshire West children's therapy transformation programme, developing a future model that improves access, consistency and outcomes including a gap analysis and service specification reviews. In partnership with Berkshire West Local Authority partners, working up an integrated commissioning contract for CYP therapy and strengthening collaboration across health, education and social care. The emphasis of this support will be on delivery rather than creating parallel structures. Recognising how dynamic this programme is, agreement on the distribution of effort across these areas to reflect emerging priorities can be amended by mutual agreement.