Job Description The Service & Team: The commissioning team supports and leads commissioning across the Together for Families Directorate across three thematic areas: Young People; Families; and, Additional Needs. The role holder will have a focused area of work but is expected to work across all thematic areas. The role holder will take the lead on an area of work within Children and Family Services and will include representing the Council with stakeholders inside and outside of the organisation. The Role: Our Vision is that all children and young people in Cornwall are safe and healthy, having equal opportunities to achieve brighter futures and closing the gap for the most vulnerable children and young people. The role holder will be expected to take a creative, visible and robust approach with partnership working throughout, persuading and influencing other stakeholder commissioners as well as delivery through more formal mechanisms such as procurement. The role holder will contribute to the work of the team to provide strategic leadership to the change process and champion an overall vision of the future. The role holder will play an integral role in the development and implementation of commissioning strategies, taking the lead on multiple elements, ensuring that services are commissioned in a way that has a focus on best practice, reflective learning, derives good quality service provision and cost effectiveness. The role holder will need to be creative in approach, identify additional social value and community assets to meet escalating need within reducing budgets. The role holder will manage effective planning, commissioning and contract management with all partners and stakeholders across health, education and social care services ensuring that good quality and cost effective services are available to improve the well being of the target population in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check. Working Pattern: Monday- Friday, 37 hours per week. Flexible working options available in this role, such as compressed hours and hybrid work arrangements. What you'll need to succeed: Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert What you'll get in return: Cornwall Council's ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met. Our core employee rewards and benefits include: • a competitive salary. • a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions • a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave. • A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme • Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services. Additional Information: Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role. The full role profile is attached here We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview. For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Samantha Anderson-Parker on Samantha.Anderson-Parker@cornwall.gov.uk Application Process Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as 'Application' on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here - The application process. Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application. Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle. About Us Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options. Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits. Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It's a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.