Strategic Commissioning Officer

Development Officer Graduate Opportunity

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Commissioning Development Officer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading on the development and delivery of strategies and action plans for the borough, contract managing performance of a specific range of business and operational services leading to good outcomes for service users.

1. Manage up to 1-2 directly managed staff, this may include fixed term positions, graduate trainees and/or others leading on delivering particularly projects or support.
2. Be responsible to the Strategic Commissioning & System Development Lead in Adults or the Head of Commissioning Practice and Development and support in Children to relevant senior leaders in the service.
3. Leading on the development and delivery of strategies and action plans for the borough, contract manage performance of a specific range of business and operational services leading to good outcomes for service users.
4. Working collaboratively with stakeholders to promote continuous improvement though ensuring that services are safe and of good quality.
5. Implementing the Greenwich commissioning approach for adults/children across the Council and the NHS, by leading co-production with service users and internal teams, on the development and evaluation of services.
6. Lead the development of a monitoring programme with partner involvement, to collect outcomes at an individual, service and population level.
7. Provide senior level support to the Strategic Commissioning and System Development Leads in the delivery of Greenwich's commissioning vision and ambitions.
8. Be Senior Commissioning Development Officer with direct responsibility to delivery high quality integrated commissioning, produce strategies and action plans for the borough, manage the performance of a specific range of business and operational services and support that ensure the delivery of statutory duties and improved outcomes for people.
9. To plan and develop communication strategies and briefings, for a wide range of audiences, including the community and members to ensure they are kept informed.
10. Through co-production with partners, staff and residents across all commissioning activities, manage and enable continuous improvement and promote innovation.
11. Lead on the management of time limited projects of varying sizes such as transformation projects across health and care.
12. Develop plans and strategies in collaboration with partners to ensure that intelligence about service provision is gathered effectively and information-sharing processes are in place to provide early identification of risk or safeguarding issues.
13. Be responsible for financial planning and budget areas relating to key client groups and services across the Local Authority and the NHS.
14. Review and make effective interventions where there are known financial and budgetary issues.
15. Working with providers to ensure the consistent delivery of outcomes through performance management processes and to act if required if these outcomes are not being delivered.
16. Promote the engagement of the community and service users and their families in the evaluation of services;
17. To establish collaborative relationships across the range of commissioning and service user group areas to support the Council and ICB in delivering statutory duties, including in relation to safeguarding, provider failure and market management.
18. To lead on informing commissioning plans and other policy developments by working with partners to analyse the effectiveness of services through the collection and collation of needs and contract monitoring data.
19. To lead on articulating the strategic level understanding of local demand and future trends and developments in the needs of the population, using a range of techniques, including interpretation of data, focus groups with service users and providers and desk top research.
20. Stimulate, through working with partners and providers to achieve maximum value for money and the development of a thriving, stable market by assessing the market, and forecasting demand.
21. Leading on the monitoring of the quality-of-service provision and through working collaboratively with other teams, ensure services are providing a service in which continuous improvement is integral to their delivery.
22. To support the relevant leadership to pursue the highest standards of care, to meet the requirements of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Ofsted, HMIP and other relevant inspectorates ensuring full compliance with all relevant standards and the ICB and Council's procurement, contract and finance standards to secure best value services.
23. To work with stakeholders, to establish a strategic framework for quality assurance and development of a systematic approach to the assessment of quality indicators for care and support services in order to drive up service standards and avoid risk of poor-quality care.
24. To work with partners using qualitative and quantitative information to analyse the quality of the local market identifying trends/patterns of poor quality, and areas of good practice.
25. Ensure that service providers are committed to and deliver workforce development.
26. Using the Greenwich competency foundations tool kit, effectively manage and support all staff under their management to optimise their impact on delivery, and present value for money.
27. Implement an ethos of high performance and commitment with peers and colleagues through promoting continuous personal and professional development.
28. This post requires a Standard DBS and will be supported by safer recruiting practices.
29. Substantial knowledge of health/care policy and practice along with experience of its implementation gained in a health, care or local authority setting.
30. Knowledge of legislation relevant to the role, which may include the Children Act 1989, the Health and Care Act 2022, the Care Act 2014, the Mental Health Act 1983 and Children's and Families Act 2017, Deprivation of Liberties, statutory regulations and government guidance, and standards relevant to planning, commissioning, procuring, safeguarding and quality assurance.
31. Excellent understanding of national priorities for services for children and/or adults.
32. Ability to adopt values and behaviours that align to the Greenwich commissioning vision and systems leadership approach.
33. Excellent and highly developed written skills with the ability to tailor language to a range of internal and external stakeholders to effectively communicate information.
34. Experience of working with providers to successfully deliver contracts through effective performance management including the development of action plans for improvement.
35. Substantial experience of integrating and developing quality characteristics within service provision to ensure that the ICB and Council meets its statutory duty towards adults and/or children and young people.
36. Experience of influencing workforce development both externally and internally to ensure that service providers and relevant internal staff are committed and deliver change.
37. Experience of the health or care sector, including, staff management, relationship building and performance monitoring.
38. Experience of being involved in the development and the decommissioning contracts.
39. Experience of contributing to the recruitment and retention and career development of RBG, ICB, partner and provider workforces.
40. Experience of participating in stimulating a thriving provider market through developing business knowledge with partners and providers of community services.
41. Experience of contributing to risk identification and mitigation, enabling providers to trial innovations.
42. Understanding of and commitment to the ICB and Council's equal opportunities policies and ability to put them into practice in the context of this post.