Commissioning Officer

6 months ago


Huntingdon, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire County Council Full time

About the role
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Children’s Commissioning Team, for a permanent position, as a Commissioning Officer, supporting the commissioning of services for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).

This is an exciting time for the Commissioning Directorate in Cambridgeshire where we have the rare opportunity to establish the service in a new and innovative manner.

This role will be focused on commissioning, contract monitoring and quality assurance of Independent Special Education Provisions (ISEPs), Out of School Tuition (OoST) and Post-16 Alternative Education Provision, improving the outcomes for the children and young people with SEND and those with Education, Health & Care Plans (EHCPs).

**Interviews are planned for week commencing 1/7/24.**

What will you be doing?
This role will involve working on projects supporting the SEND Transformation programme. Your focus will also be on working with Independent Special Education Provisions (ISEPs), Out of School Tuition (OoST) and Post-16 Alternative Education Provision commissioned by the team.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Quality assurance of these services.
- Contract management of these Services.
- To work with the market to grow and develop safe and high-quality provision that drive improvements and positive outcomes.
- To be accountable for all spending being in line with budgets set, and ensure efficiencies are achieved as required.

About you
You are passionate about making a difference to the lives of children, young people and families with SEND. Have a positive outlook, enthusiastic attitude and solution-focused mindset.

You will ideally have some existing knowledge of and experience improving outcomes for children and young people with SEND.

You will ideally have some experience of commissioning services in social care or education. You will have some understanding of the commissioning cycle and will have some experience of managing contracts as well as Quality Assurance.

You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and will have experience of multi-agency working.

You will be skilled in report writing, good analytical skills, as well as organisational and planning skills.

You will be able to work on your own initiative and will be confident managing your time and setting your own priorities.

About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme.
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme


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