Children's Commissioner

**Salary**

NJC28 - £36,648

**Contractual hours**

37

**Basis**

Full time

**Hours**

Full Time Permanent

**Job category/type**

Children's Services

**Date posted**

13/11/2024

**Job reference**

NELC131120241

**_Do you have experience in Children’s Commissioning, and a passion for ensuring Children and Families receive the best support and services?_**

**_Our Children’s Commissioner is responsible for commissioning high quality services to meet the needs of Children in North East Lincolnshire._**

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**_Our Purpose_**

The Children’s Commissioning Team is looking for a Commissioner who wants to work as part of a team to deliver excellent outcomes for our children. Our Children’s Commissioner takes the lead on commissioning across children's services including early help and social care.

This role will suit a person who has the project management skills, creativity and analytical skills to see and implement new ways of delivering services for local children, young people and families which are successful in improving outcomes.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to be involved with developing new ways of doing things and learn from others to identify opportunities for service improvement.

If you want to work somewhere where you can really make a difference then this could be the next step in your career.

**_ Your Role_**

You will lead Commissioning projects to analyse current delivery arrangements, identify potential changes, implement new models and review their impact.

You will work with the Head of Service and other colleagues on strategic work to ensure that we have robust and effective commissioning processes in place, that support the council’s aim of providing excellent services for vulnerable children and their families.

You will have experience of ensuring that value for money is provided by external partners and oversee the quality assurance and contract management of provision, supported by the team.

Another important aspect to the role, will involve working closely with managers across Children’s Services to make improvements to service delivery in the interests of children.

**_ About You_**

Previous experience of commissioning and/or project management is essential.

Ideally, you have experience of developing new approaches whilst ensuring that policies and procedures are followed.

You will be an effective team player team with the ability to work autonomously when required.

You will have strong communication skills and the ability to produce concise and accurate reports based on data, as well as excellent IT skills and the ability to follow a project management approach towards improvement.

**_Think you have what it takes to be our Children’s Commissioner and make a difference? We want to hear from you._**

**Key Dates**
Interview date: w/c 16th December 2024

**As part of your RewardNEL package**, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension.

You will also have access to our **exclusive** **RewardNEL** platform.

This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels.

NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme.

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