Commissioning Officers

7 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom South Gloucestershire Council Full time

**How you'll make a difference**:
The People department has launched an ambitious Commissioning Transformation Programme and you will be part of the team that will implement the changes. Ensuring that people in South Gloucestershire receive the support and services they need to live their lives as independently as possible, in the right setting and at affordable prices.

You will make a difference as a Commissioning Officer helping to improve the provision of care and support for people living in South Gloucestershire, by building strong partnerships especially with social care, housing and health service providers commissioned by the Council.

**Our Commissioning teams**
- The Specialist Team predominantly oversees commissioning work for learning difficulties, autism, mental health, mentoring and other important partnership work. This includes the supporting the commissioning of our specialist provider framework, quality assurance of providers and other specialist contracts and partnership working. You may carry out quality assurance, contract management and partnership working with our commissioned services and or other work to support the team.
- In the VCSE team you will support the coproduction of new ways of working to deliver support for individuals. You will also undertake day to day activity to commission and contract manage services delivered by independent and voluntary sector providers. The role includes community engagement, i.e. engaging with service users (and their carers) and capturing their needs. The post holder may also carry out research, lead small projects, facilitate our sensory impairment resident groups and work as part of the team on the Age friendly community plan.

Please see below the positions available.

**What will you be doing?**

On a daily basis you will build strong partnerships with social care, housing, Public Health and health colleagues and provider organisations, to meet our strategic commitments for all the posts. While working collaboratively to support the development of the care provider market in South Gloucestershire to deliver department-wide commissioning priorities.
- In this role you will be working with providers who are commissioned by the Council to provide support to vulnerable adults.
- It will be your responsibility to monitor contracts to ensure services are delivered and are meeting outcomes.
- You will work in partnership with a wide range of partners so that we meet our strategic commitments.
- It is important that you work in co-production with colleagues, partners, people who use services and carers to ensure the services we commission meet outcomes.
- Using your experience and knowledge, you will support commissioning and partnership working for specific groups of people such as carers, older people or people with learning difficulties.
- You will support the quality assurance of the services we commission.

**What we need from you**:

- It is essential that you have relevant knowledge and experience of working in an organisation that commissions and contracts in social care or similar services and able to demonstrate a flexible approach to working across different areas.
- You will need excellent interpersonal skills to establish a positive relationship with a wide variety of stakeholders’ contacts and customers.
- We require you to have have demonstrable experience of meeting service standards, targets and deadlines, be well organised with excellent time management skills and able to manage competing demands.
- You must be able to demonstrate clear and logical thinking, in assessing challenges and problem solving.
- Desirably, you’ll have a degree or professional qualification in social care, health care or business studies.

**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.**
- 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.

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.
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- 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_ 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

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