Description Join us in a pivotal leadership role where you’ll work across the NHS Integrated Care Board (ICB) and the Local Authority in Cornwall to ensure Section 117 compliance, strengthen governance, and improve outcomes for people who need mental health aftercare arranged. As the Pooled Fund Manager and Strategic Lead for s117, you’ll provide assurance to senior leaders, influence commissioning decisions, and drive system-wide improvements that make a real difference. The Service and Team You’ll be part of our Safe and Caring Communities directorate, within the People Commissioning team—a forward-thinking service dedicated to improving lives through integrated health and social care. Working alongside experienced commissioners, purchasing managers, and NHS partners, you’ll help shape services that support people out of hospital and into the community. This senior leadership role sits at the heart of strategic commissioning, influencing provision across mental health, learning disability, and supported housing. Collaboration, co-design, and innovation are central to our approach, ensuring sustainable markets and person-centred outcomes for the people of Cornwall. About the Role You will lead the management of pooled resources, ensuring robust governance and compliance with statutory requirements and local agreements. This role involves setting strategic direction for Section 117 aftercare, shaping commissioning decisions, and embedding best practice across health and social care partners. You’ll analyse market intelligence, advise commissioners, and produce clear, insightful financial and performance reports for senior stakeholders. As one of the most senior officers reporting to the Head of Commissioning with accountability to the Programme Lead for Mental Health in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICB, you will act as a strategic ambassador for Cornwall, future-proof services in line with policy changes, and lead improvement plans. You will influence commissioning across mental health pathways, ensuring person-centred approaches and sustainable markets. What you’ll need to Succeed Proven experience managing large-scale budgets, ideally across pooled arrangements. Expert knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended), especially Section 117. Strategic leadership experience within commissioning, mental health, or social care. Strong analytical and reporting skills with confidence to challenge and assure. Ability to influence across organisations without direct line management. Experience of shaping markets, managing risk, and driving sustainable services. Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert Why join us? Strategic impact: Shape mental health aftercare services across health and social care. Collaborative environment: Work with senior leaders across multiple organisations. Flexibility: Remote working with occasional visits to Truro County Hall. Purpose-driven role: Improve outcomes for people requiring mental health aftercare. High-profile position: Act as a strategic ambassador for Cornwall, influencing policy and practice nationally. 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: Please note, we are unable to offer 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 Karen Hooper - karen.hooper@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. Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.