Commissioning Manager (Care Homes)

Cornwall Council; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornwall Council is seeking a Commissioning Manager to join the Strategic Commissioning Team. This role involves managing care home services, leading strategic initiatives, and ensuring high-quality service provision. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong leadership, collaboration skills, and a commitment to improving outcomes for the community.

Benefits

Defined benefit pension scheme

Generous annual leave entitlement

National award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

Employee benefits scheme

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge in a relevant professional area.
• Strong ability to lead and promote innovation.
• Significant experience of commissioning and contracting.

Responsibilities

• Manage commissioning of care home services for older people.
• Lead on delivery of complex strategic commissioning priorities.
• Provide direction and oversight to staff activities.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Education

Degree level or equivalent experience

Relevant management or professional qualification

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Strategic Commissioning Team at Cornwall Council with priorities for the development, commissioning and contracting of the Care Homes market as part of the delivery of the Cornwall Supported & Specialist Housing Strategy 2023-2050 . As a Commissioning Manager you will be part of the People Commissioning Services, which is responsible for the commissioning, contracting, quality assurance and purchasing of social care services.

The Role:

The role holder will either be managing the commissioning of care home services for older people in Cornwall.

The Commissioning Managers are senior officers reporting to the Strategic Commissioning Leads. They will be responsible for the management of Commissioning Officers and Assistant Commissioning Officers.

The role holder will be responsible for supporting the Strategic Commissioning Leads to develop and implement strategies, plan new policies and frameworks and delivery of all of the strategic activities of care homes commissioning. This will ensure that services are commissioned in a way that has a focus on best practice, reflective learning, derives good quality service provision and cost effectiveness.

The role provides direction, leadership and oversight to the activities of the staff in their teams but also has responsibility for directly leading on commissioning activities across the entire commissioning cycle for care homes.

Activities under the role’s direct leadership will include leading on the delivery of complex strategic commissioning priorities and contract and supplier relationship management of some of the most strategic and critical contracts held by the Council, ensuring the best outcomes for people. This will include resolving areas of high risk for the Council including strategic performance, market failure, poor quality, outmoded models of service or delivery of the best service for people that is value for money.

The approach adopted by the Commissioning Managers will be open, transparent and collaborative, focusing always on the impact and outcomes that can be achieved and being ambitious for the continuous improvement of services and improved outcomes for people.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern:

The working pattern will usually be 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday with a requirement to work two days a week from the office at New County Hall, in Truro. There may be some occasional requirements to work out of hours due to public meetings and engagement.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Degree level or equivalent experience and/or hold a relevant professional qualification. Not excluding of relevant achievement aligned with a range of relevant experience.
• Relevant management or professional qualification.
• Expert knowledge in a relevant professional area and proven track record of using professional expertise to develop and deliver strategic objectives and expected outcomes.
• Strong ability to lead and promote innovation, new ways of working and collaboration across a wide range of stakeholders, including other Council directorates, Health, providers and communities.
• The ability to represent the Service and the Council locally and regionally, including the ability to produce accurate performance reports for the Senior Management Team.
• Ability to prepare clear concise written and verbal reports for a range of audiences including elected members, Chief Officers, service users, partner organisations and central government representatives.
• Self-motivated with ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines, without close supervision, adopting a flexible, problem solving and creative approach to tasks.
• Ability to manage a team of officers, carrying out effective performance management of staff and demonstrates understanding of policies related to capability, disciplinary matters and grievances.
• Knowledge of the service specific areas and impacts on Local Authority duties.
• Dynamic and experienced commissioner who will provide strong and visionary leadership.
• Have significant experience of commissioning, contracting and performance in a relevant setting.
• Extensive experience of working and influencing the direction of services within a highly political environment.
• Experience of strategic supplier relationship management, including contract management. This includes understanding and analysing performance data.
• Understanding and experience of commissioning, procurement and contract management in education, health and social care for both children’s and adult services.
• Experience of partnership working with the NHS.
  

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What you’ll get in return:

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [e-mail] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be foundhere - flexible working options .

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, youngpeopleand adults at risk.It’sa vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.

Job Info

• Job Identification 700002914
• Job Category Commissioning & Performance
• Posting Date 05/21/2025, 01:34 PM
• Apply Before 06/05/2025, 10:59 PM
• Locations Other, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 3AY, GB
• Job Type/Contract Type Permanent
• Available Hours 37
• Advertised Salary Range £44,919 - £53,558