Role Purpose
Are you passionate about supporting the delivery of high quality services and ensuring positive outcomes for Children with Disabilities? We are seeking a Short Breaks Coordinator / Commissioning Officer to join Children's Commisioning Team and Children with Disabilities Service. The role will be focused on allocations of short breaks and managing partnerships with providers.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate an ability to work in a fast paced environment with constant change.
Key Responsibilities
To contribute to the development and delivery of an expert commissioning and brokerage service that provides and enables high quality services and solutions that meet the care and support needs of children and families and that represent value for money.
To manage and monitor all identified contracts, service level agreements and grants caseloads with providers of services for children’s services with a particular focus on monitoring performance against agreed standards and outcomes and reporting back on performance to managers.
To maintain a lead ‘subject expertise’ in relation to either specific groups of service users, or aspects of the commissioning process in agreement with the Children’s Commissioning Service Manager. This relates to knowledge and best practice expertise that is a resource to the team – it does not indicate that duties will be restricted to this area of expertise.
To broker services for children and families, where required, acting as the liaison with service users, providers and others such as schools, officers within the directorate and other key stakeholders. This might include transport for children and young people, short breaks, Direct Payments and other services as appropriate.
Requirements
Candidates will be able to demonstrate a good knowledge of a range of social care provision. The preferred candidate will show willingness and keenness to work in a busy service and will be able to demonstrate a good understanding of the service user groups that access this support. This post will suit candidates with a commissioning, strategy or transformation background. Whilst experience of working with children with disabilities services context would be desirable, it is not a requirement.
The post holder will:
1. Have a good understanding of social care processes, policies and provision
2. Have good problem solving, report writing and negotiation skills
3. Provide advice and support to provider organisations and facilitate communication between provider organisations, commissioners, operational managers, other statutory agencies and relevant professional
4. Have an understanding of the contract process in order to risk manage contracted services via contract review and supporting monitoring officers as necessary
5. Have an understanding of the role of CQC (Care Quality Commission)