Senior SEND Commissioning Lead for Integrated Services

The Methodist Church in Britain; Bournemouth; Vor Ort; GBP 40.000 - 56.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Clear pay band progression

Enhanced employee benefits package

Supportive team environment

Zusammenfassung

BCP Council seeks a Senior Commissioning Officer to drive SEND reform priorities into commissioning actions, funding models and service specifications. The role operates across the council, NHS Dorset and partners, focusing initially on therapies and integrated service models.

Responsibilities include leading complex cross-organisational programmes, developing pathways, and ensuring robust contractual arrangements with clear performance measures.

Qualifikationen

• Strong transferable experience in commissioning, programme delivery, procurement, contracts or transformation.
• Ability to analyse data, evidence and market intelligence.
• Facilitate partnership decisions and maintain momentum through delivery.
• Work across organisational boundaries and manage competing priorities.
• Turning strategic ambition into implementable services, contracts and funding flows.
• Collaborative and credible approach to commissioning.

Aufgaben

• Turn SEND reform priorities into deliverable commissioning actions.
• Coordinate cross-organisational projects through the full commissioning cycle, from needs assessment to contract review.
• Develop joint specifications, pathways and integrated service models with partners.
• Identify pooled or aligned funding opportunities and bring forward evidence-based investment proposals.
• Develop robust contractual arrangements with outcomes, timescales, performance measures and accountability.
• Monitor quality, impact and risk, identify efficiencies and address provider underperformance.
• Develop provider capacity, including SMEs and the voluntary and community sector, and support a responsive market.
• Lead the initial focus on therapies, pathway redesign and integrated service models.
• Influence service redesign and decisions through governance arrangements.
• Supervise Contracts Officers and advise on complex commissioning and contractual matters where required.

Kenntnisse

Data analysis

Partnership facilitation

Cross-organisation work

Contracting & funding

Change management

Jobbeschreibung

BCP Council seeks a Senior Commissioning Officer to drive SEND reform priorities into commissioning actions, funding models and service specifications. The role operates across the council, NHS Dorset and partners, focusing initially on therapies and integrated service models.

Responsibilities include leading complex cross-organisational programmes, developing pathways, and ensuring robust contractual arrangements with clear performance measures.