South Gloucestershire Council
Assistant Commissioning Officer

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As an Assistant Commissioning Officer, you will join the Partnerships and Commissioning Service as part of the Relationship team. Working closely with social care colleagues and service providers, you will support the delivery and ongoing development of commissioned services, helping to ensure they are high quality, effective and responsive to the needs of residents. Through building positive relationships and contributing to service improvement initiatives, you will play an important role in promoting positive outcomes and continuous improvement across commissioned services.
What you will be doing
- Working closely with with colleagues, partners, service users and carers, you will support the commissioning and delivery of services by reviewing plans and maintaining accurate records of referrals, contracts, placements, expenditure and service provider information.
- It will be your responsibility to gather and report on service user feedback, analyse service data, and research best practice to support service development.
- You will provide a wide range of administrative support to assigned projects, ensuring written reports are compiled, support is provided, and records are accurate.
- Using your expertise, you will provide advice and guidance on policies, procedures and processes to customers, partners and colleagues, supporting consistent and effective service delivery.
- A key aspect of your role will be building and maintaining effective relationships with a wide range of providers, services and colleagues, ensuring the clear and timely communication of important information.
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What we need from you
- We require you to have previous experience gained from working within an organisation responsible for commissioning in social care or a similar service.
- You will hold a level 3 qualification, ideally in social or health care.
- It is essential that you have strong interpersonal skills, enabling you to build and maintain positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, contacts and customers.
- You will be able to collate and interpret information from multiple sources to present clear and accurate findings.
- Given the nature of this work, you will be well organised with excellent time management skills and the ability to effectively manage competing priorities.
What you need to know
- This is a part-time role of 18.5 hours per week, working Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday and Friday.
- Salary is pro-rata to hours worked.
- This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Yate and working from home.
- Interviews are likely to held on 24th September 2026.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different
- 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.
- We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
- We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference, and we continue to invest in technology to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability and celebrate innovation.
- Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
- We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working and we’re ambitious about the future.
- We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
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