Assistant Commissioning Officer

South Glos; Yate; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave (pro rata)

Wellbeing support

Staff discounts

Flexibility / work-life balance

Training and development

Job summary

South Gloucestershire Council is seeking an Assistant Commissioning Officer to source and arrange care and support for individuals with diverse needs. You will work within the Partnerships and Commissioning Service, collaborating with social workers, individuals and families to broker suitable care placements.

This role focuses on reablement pathways, supports integration of direct payments, and includes weekly duty cover.

Qualifications

• Level 3 qualification in health or social care.
• Experience of commissioning in social care or similar service.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build positive working relationships with stakeholders.
• Highly organised with excellent time management and workload balance.
• Able to work effectively as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Sourcing and arranging care and support for individuals by brokering suitable care packages and placements.
• Support the integration of direct payments into the Personalised Commissioning team and help develop related processes.
• Provide duty cover at least once a week and manage incoming contacts and queries.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Teamwork

Education

Level 3 health or social care

Job description

How you'll make a difference

As an Assistant Commissioning Officer, you will play an important role in sourcing and arranging care and support for individuals with a range of needs. Joining the Partnerships and Commissioning Service as part of the Personalised Commissioning team, you will contribute to a key operational function responsible for brokering suitable care packages and placements. Working closely with social workers, individuals and their families, you will identify and arrange the most appropriate support to achieve positive outcomes.

What you will be doing

• Your primary focus will be on the reablement pathways, working across both our internal Reablement Service and the Sirona P1 Pathway.
• 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 activity.
• It will be your responsibility to provide 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

• You will hold a Level 3 qualification, ideally in health or social care.
• It is essential that you have relevant experience of working within an organisation responsible for commissioning in social care or a similar service.
• We are looking for someone with strong interpersonal skills, alongside the ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Given the nature of the role, you will be highly organised, with excellent time management skills and the ability to manage your own workload, balance competing priorities and escalates concerns appropriately.
• You must be able to work effectively as part of a team to support the delivery of a high-quality service.

What you need to know

• The is a limited term contract until 31st March 2027.
• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Yate 2 days per week and working from home.
• To help manage the flow of contacts into the team, you will undertake duty cover at least once a week (8:30am - 5:00pm).

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!