Assistant Commissioning Officer

4 weeks ago


Yate, United Kingdom South Gloucestershire Council Full time

**How you'll make a difference**:
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Working within the friendly Brokerage team within South Gloucestershire, you will make a difference as the Assistant Commissioning Officer by sourcing packages of care to help support our residents. Working at pace you will have specific responsibility for procurement and commissioning a range of social care, housing or health services appropriate for adults, children and young people in our community.

**What will you be doing?**
- Under the guidance of a Commissioning Manager, you will assist with ensuring effective packages of services meet pre-identified needs to help improve the provision of care and supportive of our residents living in South Gloucestershire.
- You will be required to maintain and update information systems and databases. This includes carrying out research; collation of data and presenting information.
- You will provide advice to customers, contacts, external organisations, and colleagues ensuring that they receive appropriate guidance about policies, procedures and processes whilst ensuring effective working relationships are maintained.
- You will be responding to queries, complaints and requests from initial contact with the customer.
- You will deliver a wide range of administrative tasks accurately and efficiently. This includes recording, monitoring and maintaining budgets and/financial information which help in decision making.

**What we need from you**:
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- You will have relevant knowledge and experience of working in an organisation that commissions and contracts in social care or similar services.
- You will have excellent interpersonal skills, in establishing positive relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders’ contacts and customers.
- You will require excellent written and numeracy skills with the ability to undertake effective research and being able to present findings in a clear and concise format
- You will need be competent in the use of databases and be able to record accurate information on spreadsheets.
- You will hold NVQ level 3 or equivalent

**How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different**:
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- 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**:

- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our **training and development **offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
- 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've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.**We’re making a difference, be part of it**
- This is a limited term contract until 31.3.25
- Hybrid working, with two days per week based from the office at Badminton Road-
**Salary From**:

- £27,334

**Salary To**:

- £29,777

**Hours per week**:

- 37

**Vacancy type**:

- LTC

**Location**:

- Yate

**Team**:

- Procurement, Commissioning and Contracts

**Advertising End Date**:

- 04 Jun 2024



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