Commissioning / Purchasing Professional

Colbern Limited; Taunton; Presencial; GBP 41.000 - 55.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Colbern Limited seeks an experienced Home Team Manager - Commissioning in Taunton to support the Children Looked After (CLA) Commissioning Service. This interim role involves preparing homes for children in care and mobilising the Value for Money workstream.

Typical hours: 8.30am–5pm, with occasional longer days. Office-based one day per month. You will manage contracts, oversee procurement practices, and work with providers across commissioning, procurement and finance.

Formación

• Knowledge of children's social care external placements market and commissioning approaches.
• Experience with home finding processes for children in care.
• Substantial contract management experience with procurement and governance.
• Strong organisational skills and robust audit trails for contracts.
• Ability to drive service improvements and work across stakeholder groups.
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 tools (SharePoint, Excel, Teams).
• Capable of working under pressure and meeting deadlines.

Conocimientos

Social care knowledge

Contract management

Stakeholder management

MS 365

Process improvement

Audit experience

Home finding

Working under pressure

Herramientas

SharePoint

Excel

Teams

Document management

Descripción del empleo

Home Team Manager - Commissioning

Taunton

Contract

£220.26 per day or £300 per day limited paid via umbrella company inside IR35

Our client is looking for an experienced Home Team Manager - Commissioning

1 day per month office based

Home Team, which sits within the Children Looked After (CLA) Commissioning Service. The team plays a critical role in commissioning appropriate homes for children and young people in care and is central to delivering the programme's transformation objectives.

This request forms part of interim additional resources to mobilise and deliver the 'Value for Money from the External Market' workstream within the My World My Tomorrow transformation programme.

Transformation programme aims:

• improve outcomes for children and young people
• ensure better value from external residential placements.
• improve commissioning practices by stronger market management and negotiation,
• better information flow between operational and commissioning teams
• more efficient home-finding processes.

Knowledge skills and experience

• Knowledge of the children's social care external placements market, Demonstrates an understanding of commissioning approaches and relevant regulatory frameworks.
• Knowledge of home finding processes and searching for placements for children in care
• Substantial experience of contract management. Knowledge of local authority procurement, commissioning and contract management procedures.
• Excellent organisational and contract administration skills, with the ability to manage high volumes of documentation accurately, maintain robust audit trails and ensure contractual records, agreements and supporting documentation are complete, compliant and accessible
• Experience of supporting service improvement, transformation programmes or business process redesign initiatives is highly desirable and knowledge of how new technology can lead to improved and streamlined processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across the provider markets, commissioning, procurement and finance. The postholder must be able to produce clear guidance, process documentation, reports and communications, whilst influencing colleagues to adopt consistent and compliant ways of working.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft 365 applications, particularly SharePoint, Excel, Teams and document management solutions, and will have experience of using these systems to improve information governance, accessibility and operational efficiency.
• Ability to work under pressure, while maintaining stakeholder relationships and efficient and effective processes
• Experience of supporting internal and external audits and implementing recommendations arising from audit findings

Usual working hours are 8.30am - 5pm with occasional later working in response to business need.

Colbern Limited along with our clients are an equal opportunities employer