Bid Writer

Bid Writer - Health and Social care
Liverpool Head Office
Gray Healthcare is a specialist health and social care provider, supporting people with complex challenging needs, disabilities and long-term conditions looking to step back into the community from long-term in-patient support services. At Gray Healthcare, we offer our own dynamic approach to care, enabling people to move back into their own homes - into their own communities - giving them control of their life. We create a bespoke support package for each individual with care support from our own multi-disciplinary team, adaptable to meet all current and future needs.
We are looking for a Bid Writer to join us at this exciting time to support the business development function. The core aspect of the role is to manage our access to clinical commissioning portals, write our tenders and manage all submissions - all our tenders are small scale, partnering with clinical commissioning groups for individual packages of care.
Main Responsibilities:

• Ensuring we are on all Clinical Commissioning Group frameworks and portals
• Establishing and maintaining relationships with CCGs and Local Authorities
• Monitoring potential business opportunities and acting on them efficiently liaising with appropriate colleagues
• Timely planning, management and completion of allocated selection questionnaires and tender submissions through the various stages of the procurement process
• Planning, drafting and writing and coordinating responses to bids
• Ensuring all written documentation relating to bids and tenders is of high quality and accuracy
• Building internal and external relationships with individuals in order to create quality bids that best represents the company's services
• Managing each bid as a mini-project and ensuring that all tasks are assigned to relevant workstream and actioned in a timely manner
• Work collaboratively with clinical commissioning groups through relationship management and engagement to attract & bid for new packages of care
• Produce reports and papers and provide insight into data captured & use data to inform evidence-based decisions
• Providing advice and guidance to colleagues on local and national policies/procedures/pathways

To be considered for the role, you will be able to demonstrate:

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal with a flair for descriptive writing
• Understanding of CCG, LA and NHS England commissioning portals - both registration & management of relationships within
• Understanding tender framework
• Good time-management skills
• Strong negotiation skills
• Ability to influence at a senior level
• Effective team player
• Enthusiastic and motivated
• Proficient user of IT programs including Word, Excel, Outlook
• Knowledge of mental health, learning disabilities and complex needs

As a Bid Writer you will receive an extremely competitive salary, a generous 33 days holiday inc. bank holidays, a healthcare cash plan and the chance to develop with a vibrant, growing organisation. There will be a commission attached to this role, to be discussed at interview
Gray Healthcare provides dedicated healthcare in the home promoting quality of life and independence in order to create the best possible chance for sustained recovery.
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Gray Healthcare are committed to equal opportunities and welcome a broad diversity of talent to apply.
Gray Healthcare reserves the right to cease any advertising prior to the published closing date for a role that receives a high number of applications.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.