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Head of Service Children's Commissioning
4 months ago
About the role
Forming part of the Commissioning Service leadership team this dynamic role brings together senior accountability for a range of services that are commissioned or directly delivered by the Council, to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and young people who are on the edge of care, in care and leaving care. The post-holder has responsibility for commissioned provision for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities [SEND], children with disabilities / complex needs and children & family services. Many of these services are high risk in terms of ensuring that vulnerable children and young people are safeguarded, have their assessed needs comprehensively met and outcomes achieved whilst maintaining the reputation of Cambridgeshire County Council and ensuring the Council is able to fulfil its statutory duties and responsibilities.
Can you rise to the challenge? Cambridgeshire County Council is embarking on a new phase of service delivery after a period of joint working with Peterborough City Council and this brings some exciting opportunities to work with us. With a new Executive Director for Adults, Health and Commissioning joining us soon, we will focus solely on services to the citizens of Cambridgeshire and we have bold ambitions to achieve excellent standards. If you have the passion for putting our County's residents at the heart of everything you do and the ambition to help shape our future, we would love to hear from you.
Interviews for this role will be held the week commencing 15/05/2023
What will you be doing?
The scope of management and leadership responsibility for children’s commissioning within Cambridgeshire is extensive, demanding and rewarding. The role requires excellent strategic ability, emotional intelligence, and proven ability to successfully manage a diverse range of stakeholders and partners to continue to ensure improved outcomes for our most vulnerable children, young people and their families.
This post-holder will not only provide advice and guidance to Council Members and senior officers, but will also manage a diverse and highly skilled commissioning team responsible for delivering the following functions:
- Comprehensive service vision, commissioning strategies and associated action plans focusing on improved outcomes and evidence-based impact.
- Service Reviews
- Core Commissioning Priorities per portfolio in line with the business planning cycle
- Access to markets through dedicated Access to Resources Services
- Key commercial negotiations
- Market management and shaping.
- Capitalise on market driven opportunities and efficiencies
- Effective delivery of Cambridgeshire's corporate priorities.
For more information, please review the attached job description.
About you
To be successful in the role you will have:
- Extensive experience and a proven track record at senior management level of successfully commissioning services for children, young people and their families
- The ability to lead and inspire confidence, trust and respect of members, colleagues, partners and wider networks and communities.
- A demonstrable track record delivering improvements in the quality of the scope of commissioned services for which you will be accountable.
- The drive, ambition and vision to continue to improve outcomes for our most vulnerable children, young people and their families.
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.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
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
