Principal Commissioning Officer

**Grade J £43,421- £47,420**
**Contract: Permanent**
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**The Role**
Join Bolton Council’s Public Health Team as a Principal Commissioning Officer, a key management role focused on transforming services for the Bolton community.

As Principal Commissioning Officer, you will provide project and strategic support for commissioning work across Public Health, as well as deputising for the Strategic Lead on commissioning matters. You’ll lead and develop a team of Commissioning Officers to ensure high-quality services meet local needs, as well as building collaborative relationships with service providers, users, and stakeholders.

You’ll ensure services deliver optimal outcomes, supporting and challenging commissioning projects to improve services across Bolton. The role requires working from Bolton Town Hall or attending local meetings at least half the week, per the Council’s Hybrid Working Policy.

**About You**
Are you highly motivated and energetic with great interpersonal skills and the ability to build excellent relationships and partnerships? Do you want to make a real difference to the lives and outcomes of people in the local community? If so, then you might be the right person to join us.

You will have the ability to lead and work strategically on intelligence led and high-quality commissioning plans, strategies, and projects. You will be capable of balancing multiple areas of work, reporting on progress and delivering these within set timescales to achieve required outcomes. You will have excellent analytical and lateral thinking skills, alongside excellent IT skills, that you can effectively use to develop creative and innovative solutions, and you will be capable of leading and managing others to work both independently and as part of a team.

**About Us**
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

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This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.