Strategic Commissioning Lead

2 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**

**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.

**Quality Assurance and Market Sustainability**

There are a number of vacancies in the Quality Assurance and Market Sustainability function. If you are interested in these roles you will be directly involved in working collaboratively with providers to support them to be the best that they can be. You will also work with down stream with providers where there are risks around their sustainability and potential market failure to find ways of maximising the continuity of care for vulnerable adults.

We have these positions available;
Senior Quality Assurance Officer

Quality Assurance Officer

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

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.

More information about working for Cornwall Council is available here.

We are happy to talk about flexible working options.

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