PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RL
Worker Category: LCC Hybrid Worker
Salary: Grade 12 £43,860 - £47,829 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Working Hours:
- 1 x 37 hours per week (primarily focused on working age adults)
- 1 x 27.5 hours per week (primarily focused on older adults)
Contract Type: Fixed term until 31st March 2026 or Secondment 31st March 2026
Closing Date: 07/10/25
Interview Date(s): 16/10/25
Would you like to join us as a commissioning officer and help to shape the way our Adult Social Care services are developed? If you want to be an integral part of a great team developing high-quality, innovative, and cost-effective services across Leicestershire this could be the opportunity for you.
About the Role
The specific responsibilities and tasks are;
1. To support with commissioning of adult social care services across Leicestershire including Extra Care schemes and Transforming Care and fee review processes.
2. This will include engagement and co-production with relevant stakeholders, analysis of complex data, report writing, qualitative research and drawing conclusions from the evidence gathered.
3. To support other commissioning activities relevant to Adult Social Care.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
• A relevant degree or professional qualification or an equivalent level of relevant experience.
• Experience of social care, commissioning and service development.
• Developed innovative approaches in your work.
• Experience of engaging with adult social care providers.
• Aware of key issues facing local authorities and provider markets, as well as knowledge of the Care Act.
• Organised and a good time manager.
• A good communicator, partnership worker, and able to be flexible to meet changing demands.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Enter name and job title: Katie Joondan, Lead Commissioner
Telephone: 0116 305 7832
Email:
section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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