Strategic Lead for Purchasing

3 weeks ago

Truro, United Kingdom Cornwall Council Full time

Come and be part of our new People Commissioning Team. This is an exciting opportunity to join and help build a new integrated people commissioning function at Cornwall Council.

We are one of the largest unitary Councils, we are creating a new function that supports both Childrens and Adult Care Services.

There are a number of new opportunities across the People Commissioning function for people who are both interested in building a career in public services and social care as well as opportunities for those who have lots more experience.

We still have a number of roles that will lead on a broad set of functions below:

- Establishing strategic commissioning and the intelligent client function for the Council across the delivery of people services
- Lead on driving innovation and excellence in service delivery
- Managing patterns of demand differently to improve outcomes
- Establishing strong and effective partnerships to commission services jointly across with health, housing and other providers.
- To lead the strategic transformation and reshaping of services over the medium to longer term.
- Working closely with providers to help them be the best that they can, not only delivering excellent services but also supporting them to deliver added social, economic and environmental value to the Cornish economy.

We have provided a summary of some of the key roles below. The detail is set out in the role profiles below.

**Strategic Commissioning Leads**

This role is a key role in overseeing the successful delivery of our formal partnership with health commissioners, working to ensure we have a co-ordinated approach around joint commissioning, effective joint commissioning governance and that our partnerships are underpinned by good practice legal agreements which support us to understanding the impact in terms of improved outcomes.

You can view the role profile here.

**Purchasing Lead**

There is a new role heading up the new social care purchasing team reporting in the ‘Head of Quality, Workforce and Purchasing’. This role will manage a team of buyers who will be purchasing packages of care on behalf of social workers. This role is buying £millions of social care across care provision including care home, home care and supported living services for vulnerable adults. It will ensure on behalf of the Council that there is grip and control over our purchasing practice and that we are driving improvement in value for money, market sustainability and quality outcomes. You can view the role profile here.

Follow this link for details of our other vacancies - People and Commissioning at Cornwall Council

Whilst the location/work-base for this role may have been specified our evolving ways of working means that the role may require you to also work remotely (e.g., from home/other locations). We will discuss this with you during the recruitment process.

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options.

**How To Apply**

**About Us**

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Find out about working and volunteering for us.

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.

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