Commissioning Officer

**Commissioning Officer (Complex Needs)**:
We adopt an ‘anonymous recruitment’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made.

We are committed to recruiting, retaining, and developing a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Sharing your equality monitoring data allows us to assess the impact our recruitment and employment policies and practices have and gives us the opportunity to improve them where possible. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

**About the vacancy**

**Vacancy ID**:
2054

**Organisation**:

- Carmarthenshire County Council

**Number of vacancies**:

- 1

**Contract type**:

- Permanent Full Time

**Location**:

- Carmarthen

**Grade**:

- Grade I

**Salary**:

- £37,938 - £41,511
If part time and/or term time, the full time salary quoted (based on 37hrs) will be pro-rata'd accordingly**Hourly Rate**:

- £19.66 - £21.52

**Contract Hours**
- 37

**Come and join our team**

**Come and join our team**:
The vision of Children and Families Services in Carmarthenshire is to keep children safe and families together and we are investing in our services to make this happen.

We have a vacancy for a Commissioning Officer (complex needs) in our Children’s Commissioning Team - a well-established team working in the Carmarthen area. This is an exciting time to join a supportive, progressive and forward-thinking authority that values the experience and skills that you have.

You will be a part of a supportive team, committed to delivering high quality commissioning services and a wider service working together to do the best they can to support children, young people, and their families to stay together and feel connected to their communities.

If you feel you could contribute and bring your experience, ideas, and skills to the team, we want to hear from you.

We offer an excellent benefits package including:

- Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Generous annual leave entitlement with the option of purchasing addition annual leave.
- Access to staff health and wellbeing support
- Personal development and career progression
- Staff discount schemes and other benefits e.g., cycle-to-work scheme
- Flexible working and family friendly policies
- Extensive training and support
- Free parking in the main child social work offices in Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford.

Click the link Employee benefits (gov.wales) for more information on the range of benefits and working arrangements we offer.
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**Welsh language level - verbal**
- Level 3 - You will need a good level of conversational Welsh. Reasonable support can be provided on appointment to reach this level

**Closing Date**:
11/08/2025, 23:55

**The Rewards**

We offer an excellent benefits package including:

- Competitive salary
- Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Generous annual leave entitlement with the option of purchasing addition annual leave
- Access to staff health and wellbeing support
- Personal development and career progression
- Staff discount schemes and other benefits e.g., cycle-to-work scheme
- Flexible working and family friendly policies

**Additional Information**

We are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.

**Please note, we have a legal obligation to consider employees for suitable alternative employment if their posts are at risk; prior consideration will be given to existing employees who meet the essential criteria and are registered on our redeployment pool.**

Please see the ‘How we Recruit’ guidance on the Careers Page for more information on the recruitment process.