Commissioning Officer

How you'll make a difference:
The Children and Young People’s Commissioning team have specific responsibility for the procurement and commissioning of a range of services for children and young people, including services for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

As the Commissioning Officer, you will make a difference by quality assuring referrals, maintaining records and monitoring placements and providers, improving the provision of those services commissioned by the council for children and young people living in South Gloucestershire.

What you will be doing:

- Working in the children's placement team, it will be your responsibility to co-ordinate and administer the start of the service by liaising with care providers and securing the most appropriate placements for children and young people which are the best and most cost-effective match.
- When required, you will implement and monitor contracts, processing of invoices and contributing to project planning, and the development of commissioning plans.
- Working in partnership with a wide range of partners, colleagues, people who use services and carers to ensure the services we commission meet outcomes and we meet our strategic commitment.
- Within in the service you'll support 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.
- You will be responsible for the supervision of one Assistant Commissioning Officer.

What we need from you:

- We require you to 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.
- It is key you'll have excellent interpersonal skills to establish a positive relationship with a wide variety of stakeholders’ contacts and customers.
- You will have demonstrable experience of meeting service standards, targets and deadlines, be well organised with excellent time management skills and able to manage competing demands.
- Desirably, you’ll have a degree or professional qualification in social care, health care or business studies.

**What you need to know**
- This is a part-time role, working 18.5 hours per week. Your salary is pro-rata to hours worked.
- This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Yate and working from home.

**Interviews will be held on 25th February 2025**

**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.

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 schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

**We’re making a difference, be part of it**

To view the full job description, please click this link: Commissioning Officer - Job Description