Assistant Commissioning Officer

South Gloucestershire Council; Yate; Hybrid; GBP 19.000 - 31.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Generous annual leave

Wellbeing support

Staff discounts

Flexible working

Zusammenfassung

South Gloucestershire Council is seeking an Assistant Commissioning Officer to join the Personalised Commissioning team within the Partnerships and Commissioning Service. You will broker care and support, work with social workers and care providers, and help integrate direct payments, balancing priorities and managing a caseload.

The role is part-time (30 hours per week), with a hybrid pattern of one office day in Yate and home working, and there are permanent and fixed-term contracts to 31

Qualifikationen

• Experience in commissioning in social care or similar service.
• Level 3 qualification in health or social care.
• Strong interpersonal skills and relationship building.
• Able to manage workload and competing priorities.
• Understanding of direct payments is beneficial.

Aufgaben

• Broker appropriate care and support arrangements for individuals.
• Support integration of direct payments into Personalised Commissioning team.
• Manage a caseload to source suitable care solutions.
• Undertake duty cover at least once a week (8:30am–5:00pm).

Kenntnisse

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Workload management

Stakeholder relationships

Ausbildung

Level 3 qualification health/social care

Jobbeschreibung

How you'll make a difference

As an Assistant Commissioning Officer, you will join the Personalised Commissioning team within the Partnerships and Commissioning Service, helping to arrange care and support for people with a wide range of needs. The team plays a vital role in brokering suitable care packages and placements, ensuring individuals receive the right support at the right time. Working closely with social workers, individuals, families and care providers, you will help identify and secure the most appropriate services that promote independence and achieve positive outcomes.

What you will be doing

• It will be your responsibility to broker appropriate care and support arrangements for individuals, ensuring their needs are met in a timely and effective way.
• You will support the Commissioning Officer to integrate direct payments into the Personalised Commissioning team, assisting with the development and delivery of associated processes and activities.
• Managing a caseload of individuals, you will be responsible for sourcing suitable care and support solutions to meet identified needs.
• To support the wider team, you will undertake duty cover at least once a week, helping to manage incoming contacts and ensuring queries are directed and responded to appropriately.

What we need from you

• It is essential that you have relevant experience of working within an organisation responsible for commissioning in social care or a similar service.
• You will hold a Level 3 qualification, ideally in health or social care.
• We require you to have strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Given the nature of the role, you will be well organised, with excellent time management skills and the ability to manage your own workload, balance competing priorities, and escalat?
• An understanding of direct payments and their role in delivering personalised support would be beneficial.

What you need to know

• We have both a permanent position and a limited-term contract available until 31 March 2027.
• This is a part-time role working 30 hours per week. We would also consider 24 hours per week if preferred.
• Salary will be pro rata to hours worked.
• Working days can be discussed, although there is a preference for cover towards the end of the week.
• You will undertake duty cover at least once a week (8:30am - 5:00pm), helping to manage the flow of contacts into the team.
• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Yate 1 day a week and working from home.

Interviews are likely to held 16th November 2026.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
• We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference, and we continue to invest in technology to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability and celebrate innovation.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
• We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we’re ambitious about the future.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

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