The Council and the South East London Integrated Care Board have come together to create an integrated approach to commissioning services within the Borough this postholder has a key role in implementing this new approach.
The post holder will be responsible to the Head of Commissioning Practice and Development and work closely with Strategic Commissioning Leads to deliver key projects across the children’s commissioning portfolios which may include mental health, preventions, SEND and social care related commissioning work.
The Postholder will be responsible for:
Leading on the development and delivery of strategies and action plans for the borough, contract manage performance of a specific range of business and operational services leading to good outcomes for service users.
Working collaboratively with stakeholders to promote continuous improvement though ensuring that services are safe and of good quality.
Implementing the council’s commissioning approach for adults/children across the Council and the NHS, by leading co-production with service users and internal teams, on the development and evaluation of services.
To lead the development of a monitoring programme with partner involvement, to collect outcomes at an individual, service and population level.
Provide senior level support to the Strategic Commissioning and System Development Leads in the delivery of the council’s commissioning vision and ambitions.
To be Senior Commissioning Development Officer with direct responsibility to delivery high quality integrated commissioning, produce strategies and action plans for the borough, manage the performance of a specific range of business and operational services and support that ensure the delivery of statutory duties and improved outcomes for people.
Key skills & experience
– Educated to degree level in a relevant subject, or equivalent by experience.
– Evidence of continued professional development
– Substantial knowledge of health/care policy and practice along with experience of its implementation gained in a health, care or local authority setting.
– Knowledge of legislation relevant to the role, which may include the Children Act 1989, the Health and Care Act 2022, the Care Act 2014, the Mental Health Act 1983 and Children’s and Families Act 2017, Deprivation of Liberties, statutory regulations and government guidance, and standards relevant to planning, commissioning, procuring, safeguarding and quality assurance.
– Knowledge of managing information governance successfully involving services or teams from across different organisations.
– Excellent understanding of national priorities for services for children and/or adults.
– Knowledge of managing information governance successfully involving services or teams from across different organisations.
– Excellent understanding of national priorities for services for children and/or adults.
– Sound awareness of the needs of vulnerable residents.
– Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills to effectively engage a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
– Develop and maintain credibility and confidence of colleagues, both internally and externally and able to work collaboratively with partners across the system.
– Ability to adopt values and behaviours that align to the council’s commissioning vision and systems leadership approach.
– Ability to scrutinise and problem solve, reflecting and evaluating with individuals who we support to continuously adapt services and improve outcomes.
– Ability to maximise value for money in collaboration with partners across the social, environmental & economic bottom line.
– Ability to lead and enable innovation and continuous improvement through co-production and learn from outcomes.
– Excellent and highly developed written skills with the ability to tailor language to a range of internal and external stakeholders to effectively communicate information.
– Experience of working with providers to successfully deliver contracts through effective performance management including the development of action plans for improvement.
– Experience of working with key staff and stakeholders in the event of provider failure to develop strategic action plans and their delivery.
– Experience of managing political sensitivities e.g., in the event of provider failure through providing briefings to all relevant parties in collaboration with key officers.
– Substantial experience of integrating and developing quality characteristics within service provision to ensure that the ICB and Council meets its statutory duty towards adults and/or children and young people.
– Experience of supporting cultural change.
– Experience of implementing co-produced outcomes with people we support, their family and neighbourhood.
– Knowledge and experience of managing information governance successfully involving services or teams from across different organisations.
– Experience of influencing workforce development both externally and internally to ensure that service providers and relevant internal staff are committed and deliver change.
– Experience of the health or care sector including, staff management, relationship building and performance monitoring.
– Experience of inter-agency and collaborative working across organisational boundaries at all levels and with different professional groups.
– Experience of being involved in the development and the decommissioning contracts.
– Experience of contributing to the recruitment and retention and career development of RBG, ICB, partner and provider workforces.
– Experience of participating in stimulating a thriving provider market through developing business knowledge with partners and providers of community services.
– Experience of contributing to risk identification and mitigation, enabling providers to trial innovations.
For a full job description, please forward your CV here, or call us on 020 7788 7434 to arrange to speak to a consultant for an initial chat.
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