Commissioning Support Officer

Southampton City Council; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government council is seeking a Commissioning Support Officer to enhance services for children. This role involves redesigning service offerings, managing diverse projects, and engaging stakeholders. Candidates should have project management experience, strong analytical and presentation skills, and ideally public sector experience. This position offers hybrid working arrangements, a generous pension scheme, and substantial professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Local government pension scheme

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Prior experience of service redesign or commissioning.
• Ability to write clearly and concisely for various audiences.
• Experience of managing projects.

Responsibilities

• Support the redesign and commissioning of services for children.
• Manage work areas and support projects.
• Undertake needs assessments and reviews to inform planning.

Skills

Project management

Policy writing

Analytical skills

Presentation skills

Job description

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Permanent, Commissioning Support Officer to join Southampton City Council (SCC) in the Children’s Commissioning Team.

About The Team

The newly formed Children’s Commissioning Team are key to helping Southampton City Council’s Children's Services on their exciting and rapid improvement journey. The team is helping deliver transformational change resulting in improved services for our residents. This is a small team making a big impact on the work taking place within our communities.

About The Role

As the Commissioning Support Officer, you will have a key role in supporting the redesign and commissioning of a wide range of services for children. This will include services for children with special educational needs and disabilities, children in care, care leavers, youth provision and prevention and early intervention services.

You will play a key role in our ongoing transformation journey, influencing the way our services operate, and helping embed improvements across a range of services.

You will be responsible for managing your own work areas while supporting other projects and programmes of work. This role will draw on your skills of time management, prioritisation, problem solving and attention to detail.

The Role Will Require Skills, Knowledge And Expertise To

• Undertake needs assessments, service reviews and options appraisals to inform planning and developing commissioning options.
• Work with all stakeholders to ensure active participation in the development and design of services.
• Lead on areas of system redesign to achieve agreed outcomes and improvements, adopting a project management approach.
• Collect and analyse complex data to monitor the performance of providers against existing contracts.
• Develop and manage professional relationships with service providers to help address performance issues or seize opportunities to add value.

This role provides significant opportunities for professional development within a supportive and collaborative culture.

For further information about the role please view the job description.

About You

We are looking for someone with prior experience of service redesign or commissioning and who is self-motivated, adaptable and able to organise a large and varied work programme. You will have:

• Experience of managing projects
• Experience of producing strategies and/or policies
• Ability to write clearly and concisely, and appropriately for a variety of audiences
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Good analytical skills, able to assimilate, interpret and present complex information from a range of varied sources, both quantitative and qualitative.
• Knowledge or experience of working in a public sector organisation.

If you have the necessary background, experience, and skills to excel in this role we need to hear from you.

What We Can Offer You

Here at SCC we have a range of different perks and benefits:

• A generous local government pension scheme.
• Flexible working. Up to 13 days of Flexi Leave.
• Hybrid working arrangements (role dependant).
• 25 days annual leave (pro rata), plus bank holidays.
• Online Benefits – salary sacrifice schemes, benefits and discounts.
• Great local transport links.
• Employee assistance programme with access to our health wellbeing and support.

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Please note: We are not able to offer Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship on this role, at this time.

Contact Details For Informal Discussion

For further information and details regarding the Commissioning Support Officer, Children’s please contact Stuart Webb, Head of Quality Assurance, on 07718 147003 or

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