Senior Commissioning Manager, Substance Misuse, East London
Pay rate – £500 per day
Contract role - Local Authority Adult Social Care
We are recruiting for an experienced Senior Commissioning Manager in East London.
The Senior Substance Misuse Commissioning Manager will play a central role in the recommissioning of services, ensuring a structured, co-produced, and needs-led approach. Alongside this, they will continue to oversee existing service delivery, ensuring provider performance and harm reduction initiatives remain on track.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Leading the recommissioning of drug and alcohol services, ensuring procurement processes align with local needs, national policy, and best practice.
2. Overseeing provider contract management, ensuring services meet performance targets, quality standards, and compliance requirements.
3. Engaging and coordinating key stakeholders, including health, social care, housing, and criminal justice partners, to inform service design and delivery.
4. Embedding co-production, ensuring service user voices shape the future service model.
5. Maintaining focus on harm reduction initiatives, including drug-related death prevention, naloxone distribution, and responses to contaminated drug supply.
6. Ensuring robust data collection, reporting, and performance analysis, providing evidence for commissioning decisions and service improvements.
Please get in touch for more information.
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-
7. A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
8. An easy registration process (all done online)
9. Referral schemes and incentives
10. Ongoing compliance managed for you
11. Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.