Commissioning Manager required!
Salary: £49,054.00
Location: Adult Commissioning, TS1
Hours: Monday - Friday 8.30am - 5pm
Purpose of the Post:
* To support the Head of Adult Commissioning with strategic planning, policy development, and commissioning of services for adult social care.
* To be responsible for the leadership of strategic commissioning, service development and transformation in a complex and challenging environment, ensuring best use of resources, delivery of strategic outcomes and responsiveness to local need
* To provide managerial direction and oversight of the commissioning process by co-ordinating the commissioning activities of a team of staff to ensure the effective delivery of a comprehensive commissioning work program
* To work in partnership with a variety of agencies to ensure that commissioned services are strategically relevant, person centred and high quality.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Take strategic responsibility and leadership for a defined portfolio and drive forwards service development and transformation using national best practice, legislation, evidence based information and data to define service models and opportunities.
2. To lead on the development and publication of commissioning strategies and plans that will ensure services are commissioned against agreed corporate, directorate, strategic and customer-based needs assessments, having co-production at the centre.
3. Ensure new provision is commissioned in line with the Councils Constitution and financial regulations, including any requirements of the Procurement Act 2023. This will include providing oversight of any procurement process and ensuring good quality specification development and outcome-based performance frameworks.
4. To ensure good understanding of available compliant routes to market, which may include the use of grant agreements, and seek support from the Strategic Procurement Team where required.
KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
1. Detailed knowledge of current relevant legislation, guidance and statutory duties and responsibilities of local authorities.
2. Detailed knowledge of current relevant legislation, guidance and statutory duties and responsibilities relating to Social Care, and/or Housing, and/or Health services, or other related subject matter.
3. Knowledge and significant experience of strategic commissioning.
3 Knowledge and experience of transactional commissioning.
4. Knowledge and experience of working within Procurement regulation, including Procurement Act 2023 and/or the NHS Provider Selection Regime.
5. Experience in support, involvement or developing innovative services, with experience in managing risks and reporting.
6. Experience of managing and evaluating contract performance.
7. Experience of managing, or influencing large budgets, and business planning.
8. Experience of tools and techniques for financial management, planning and control.
Please apply!
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