South Gloucestershire Council
Commissioning Manager
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As a Commissioning Manager, you will work collaboratively with social care, housing, public health, VCSE, and provider organisations to shape and develop care provision across South Gloucestershire, helping to deliver our strategic commitments and commissioning priorities. Building strong partnerships across the sector, you will support the development of a sustainable and diverse care market that contributes to our vision of strong communities.
As part of the Strategic Commissioning team, you will work across a range of adult social care commissioning areas, including home care, care homes, and specialist services for people with dementia, learning disabilities, and mental health needs.
What you will be doing
Using your expertise, you will provide advice and information to a range of customers, delivering high-quality, efficient, and value-for-money services.
Supporting the Strategic Lead for Service Development and Partnership and the Service Manager, you will ensure that emerging legislation, guidance, best practice, and policy agendas are proactively identified, with their relevance and impact assessed and addressed accordingly.
You will support the team in managing competing priorities and responding to emerging work pressures, taking responsibility for new and varied strategic areas of work in line with service needs.
The service may require you to manage a small team of commissioning officers or assistant commissioning officers in support of your work and wider team objectives.
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What we need from you
It is essential that you hold a degree or professional qualification in social care, healthcare, public health, housing, business studies, or a related discipline, or can demonstrate equivalent knowledge and experience gained through professional practice.
You will have experience of working at a senior level in a commissioning role within a social care, housing, health, or public health environment, with a sound understanding of relevant legislation, including the Care Act market-shaping responsibilities and procurement regulations.
We are looking for someone with experience of developing and delivering creative and innovative commissioning strategies and business plans. This will include undertaking needs assessments and market analysis, preferably within social care, health, public health, or housing services, as well as contract and performance management.
You must have a strong understanding of children’s and adult social care, housing, health, and public health services, including the relevant underpinning values, standards, legislative frameworks, and personalisation agenda.
What you need to know
This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road and working from home.
Interviews are likely to be held on 15th October.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different
We know our team works best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance - whatever that means for them.
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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.
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.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work, and learn here.
We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.
We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
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