Commissioning Manager

South Gloucestershire Council; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Training and development

Generous annual leave

Employee wellbeing support

Staff discounts

Job summary

South Gloucestershire Council is seeking a Commissioning Manager to shape and develop care provision across the county, working with social care, housing, public health, VCSE and providers to meet commissioning priorities.

The role sits in the Strategic Commissioning team, covering home care, care homes and specialist services for dementia, learning disabilities, and mental health needs, with a hybrid office/home pattern.

Qualifications

• This role requires a degree or professional qualification in social care, healthcare, public health, housing, business studies or an equivalent.
• You will have senior-level commissioning experience in social care, housing, health or public health.
• You will have developed and delivered commissioning strategies and business plans with market analysis, contract and performance management.
• You must understand the underpinning values, standards, legislative frameworks and personalisation agendas across children’s and adults’ social care, housing, health and public health services.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and information to customers, delivering high-quality, value-for-money services.
• Support the Strategic Lead for Service Development and Partnership and the Service Manager with policy agendas and legislation.
• Manage competing priorities and respond to emerging work pressures in strategic areas.
• Possibly manage a small team of commissioning officers to support wider team objectives.

Skills

Senior commissioning experience

Contract management

Market analysis

Policy knowledge (Care Act)

Public health knowledge

Team management

Education

Degree in social care / public health / housing

Job description

How you'll make a difference

As a Commissioning Manager, you will work collaboratively with social care, housing, public health, VCSE and provider organisation to shape and develop care provision across South Gloucestershire, helping to deliver our strategic commitments and commissioning priorities. Building strong partnerships across the sector, you will support the development of a sustainable and diverse care market that contributes to our vision of strong communities.

As part of the Strategic Commissioning team, you will work across a range of adult social care commissioning areas, including home care, care homes, and specialist services for people with dementia, learning disabilities and mental health needs.

What you will be doing

• Using your expertise, you will provide advice and information to a range of customers, delivering high-quality, efficient and value-for-money services.
• Supporting the Strategic Lead for Service Development and Partnership and the Service Manager, you will ensure that emerging legislation, guidance, best practice and policy agendas are proactively identified, with their relevance and impact assessed and addressed accordingly.
• You will support the team in managing competing priorities and responding to emerging work pressures, taking responsibility for new and varied strategic areas of work in line with service needs.
• The service may require you to manage a small team of commissioning officers or assistant commissioning officers in support of your work and wider team objectives.

What we need from you

• It is essential that you hold a degree or professional qualification in social care, healthcare, public health, housing, business studies or a related discipline, or can demonstrate equivalent knowledge and experience gained through professional practice.
• You will have experience of working at a senior level in a commissioning role within a social care, housing, health or public health environment, with a sound understanding of relevant legislation, including the Care Act market-shaping responsibilities and procurement regulations.
• We are looking for someone with experience of developing and delivering creative and innovative commissioning strategies and business plans. This will include undertaking needs assessments and market analysis, preferably within social care, health, public health or housing services, as well as contract and performance management.
• You must have a strong understanding of children's and adult social care, housing, health and public health services, including the relevant underpinning values, standards, legislative frameworks and personalisation agenda.

What you need to know

• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road and working from home.

Interviews are likely to held on 15th October.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different

• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve thatwork/life balance - whatever that means for them.
• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of ourtraining and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
• 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.

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

• We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
• We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
• We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.

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!