Commissioning Officer

7 days ago

Yate, United Kingdom South Gloucestershire Council Full time
How you'll make a difference

As a Commissioning Officer within the Children’s Placement Team, you will assist supported accommodation providers to reach and maintain the required Ofsted standards, improve service delivery and provision of those services commissioned for children and young people living in South Gloucestershire.

 

The Children and Young People’s Commissioning team have specific responsibility for the procurement and commissioning of a range of services for children and young people and their families including services for children in care. 


What you will be doing
  • In this newly created role, you will establish a quality assurance and monitoring framework to ensure that all supported accommodation providers are maintaining and improving standards and the delivery of services for young people. 
  • Working with supported accommodation providers across the region, you will assist them with Ofsted registration to ensure they are at the required standard to become registered. 
  • Daily, you will be dealing with concerns, issues and celebrating and sharing good practice across the sector, supporting the quality assurance of all the services we commission. 
  • When required, you will co-ordinate and administer the start of the service by liaising with care providers and securing the most appropriate placements for children and young people. 
  • It will be your responsibility to implement and monitor contracts, process invoices and contribute to project planning, partnership working and the development of commissioning plans.
  • Working with colleagues, partners and people who use the services, you will ensure they meet our strategic commitments.

What we need from you
  • Given the elements of the role, you will able to demonstrate a flexible approach to working across different areas and have gained relevant knowledge and experience of working in an organisation that commissions and contracts in social care or similar services.
  • You will have demonstrable experience of meeting service standards, targets and deadlines, and the ability to manage competing demands.
  • It would be desirable for you to have working knowledge of the 16+ supported accommodation market or housing related support services, although this is not essential. 
  • You will be liaising with a variety of stakeholders and customers, so you need to have excellent interpersonal skills to establish positive relationships.
  • A degree or professional qualification in social care, health care or business studies is desirable.
  • Although based in Yate, the team work predominantly from home and there will be a requirement to work throughout the region visiting provision.

 

What you need to know

  • This is a limited term contract until 31st January 2028.
  • This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Yate and working from home.    

 

The closing date for applications is 11.55 pm, 5 Jan 2025

Interviews will be held on 14th January 2025

 

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different  

  • We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance .  
  • What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.
  • As part of our benefits package you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities
  • We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work.
  • We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.

 

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.  

  • We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.    
  • We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.  
  • We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.   

 

We’re making a difference, be part of it 

 

To view the full job description, please click this link:  Commissioning Officer - Job Description

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