Senior Partnership Commissioner

The Public Health Team are seeking a Senior Partnership Commissioner on a 12-month fixed term contract to join the team at level A. This is the entry point of the role, so you will need to be able to demonstrate the relevant knowledge, experience and skills to get you started, but you will be supported to develop in your role through induction, probation and a supportive Performance Appraisal and Career Conversation. All elements of level A listed within the person specification are essential. Through your induction you will be introduced to the Career Progression Framework (CPF), which will help you to identify your areas of strength and any development needs

Lead and support the development and delivery of an integrated health and social care commissioning strategy that is rooted in outcome focused solutions that will support Medway Council and NHS Kent & Medway Integrated Care Board achieve their strategic and overarching objectives.

Lead on commissioning and contract management for service areas provision, adhering to relevant legislation, guidance, and national and local strategies, including Medway’s ‘Joint Local Health & Wellbeing Strategy’. It will meet the standards set out in the Integrated Commissioning for Better Outcomes framework.

Placing the service user at the heart of the decision-making process, create integrated pathways to services and facilitate seamless transition of people between services.

The role will involve liaising with stakeholders in a way that promotes the vision and values of the Council.

**Accountabilities and Outcomes**

Lead on a range of activities that form part of the commissioning cycle and undertake proactive planning to alleviate pressure on acute services and address gaps in provision, ensuring service sufficiency. This will include ensuring costs savings will be delivered alongside effective risk management, service improvement, and embedding of good practice and working within the legislative framework that underpins public service provision to maximise opportunities to protect and promote health and wellbeing.

Manage and motivate team and individual performance, providing direction and leadership, undertaking staff appraisals, addressing welfare, capability and disciplinary issues, advising on personal development, training and coaching.

Develop the provision of high-quality community-based services, business cases and reports, service specifications, analyses of need, demand, spend, and performance data, ensuring compliance with statutory legislation and practice requirements, including mandatory training.

Demonstrate a commitment to equality and diversity, identifying service strategies to deliver equitable and fair services for users and employees, challenging discriminatory practices and actively managing and promoting diversity and work within professional and ethical boundaries while promoting population health and wellbeing and addressing health inequalities and adhering to professional codes of conduct, occupational membership codes, employer behaviour frameworks and practice standards.

Work in partnership with other agencies to share learning and good practice and maximise opportunities for collaborative commissioning, contributing to the development of integrated and whole system pathways and operating within the decision making, administrative and reporting processes that support political and democratic systems.

Ensure that all commissioning activity is carried out in accordance with legislation, national guidelines, Kent and Medway ICB and Medway Council’s policy and procedures, and is applied using the principles of good practice including ethics and probity and take account of safeguarding policy and standards.

Analyse needs, markets and spend, plan and develop category and/or commissioning approaches, design and deliver saving plans and report annually on progress towards achieving better and cheaper outcomes.

Prepare and produce accurate and timely management information, including ensuring compliance with relevant procedures for governance, risk and control, including assuring the quality of all required information for the governance structure.

At the discretion of the line manager, such other activities as may from time to time be agreed consistent with the nature of the job described above.

Career Progression Frameworks (CPF) have been introduced for all roles at Medway Council. These frameworks provide a mechanism for employees to take ownership of their development within their post and be rewarded accordingly. This means that the salary you will be offered will be at level A unless, based on an assessment against the CPF criteria, you demonstrate that you are meeting the criteria of level B or C. There will be further opportunity once in post to progress from level A to B, and B to C.

**The person specification of a job profile is split into three levels**:
Level B details the developed competencies that an individual who i