Senior Commissioner

**Salary Range**:£34,209 - £43,860
**Contraact**:Permanent
**Hours**: Full Time
**Location**: Hybrid Working
**Leave Entitlement**:29 days

**About the Role**

This role is responsible for the development and delivery of the Care Closer to Home pathway, integration and mental health. It works in partnership with health, voluntary and community sector and service providers to design pathway and improvement programmes that turn commissioning intentions into positive outcomes for individuals. This role is focused on improvement and prevention and early intervention strategies.

It supports and aligns with the Strategy and Transformation Team to ensure best practice commissioning frameworks are reflected in ASC commissioning intentions.

Some accountablilities of this role include:

- Manage the development and delivery of the Care Closer to Home pathway, maintaining a focus on improvement and prevention and early intervention strategies across:
○ Reablement
○ Community equipment
○ Telecare
- Utilise best practice commissioning frameworks, ensuring that there are commissioning strategies and plans in place that reflect local need, priorities and maximise resources
- Develop partnership working between health, voluntary and community sector and service providers, providing cross-service or multi-contract level of engagement
- Facilitate involvement of service users, families and carers in the planning, design and delivery of services and strategies, to improve their quality and outcomes
- Support iterative and continuous service development, responding to market developments and service needs

The role reports directly to the Section 75 Integration and Partnership Lead.

**About Us**

The Council is focused on delivering the best possible outcomes for its communities. To do this the Council needs employees who thrive in an agile and networked organisation and who can support continuous improvement within a constructive organisational culture.

**About You**

In order to successfully deliver the responsibilities of the role, you will need to:

- Question and challenge ways of working, with an understanding of the bigger picture in terms of the corporate context and external environment
- Demonstrate agility and adaptability in mindset and ways of working
- Work successfully with key stakeholders within and outside of the Council
- Demonstrate commitment to own personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the role
- Demonstrate innovation and creativity
- Actively engage in positive cross organisational communications and team working
- Communicate clearly, confidently and appropriately with colleagues using the best methods of communication for the task.
- Expert knowledge of client groups and care markets
- Experience of effective service development, redesign and improvement methodologies
- Demonstrate excellence in partnership working with a wide range of stakeholders, multi-disciplinary teams, agencies and providers.
- Understanding and awareness of key legislation for Public Sector social care, including health, housing and social care

**Our Offer To You**

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we're committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We're constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

In addition we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff supported by our IT infrastructure, Google Chromebooks and Google Apps, which have acted as a key enabler for collaborative and streamlined working. The COVID-19 pandemic has required us to be even more flexible in how we work and manage staff workloads, ensuring they have the correct equipment and resources to be able to maximise their talents and looking after their wellbeing.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

- Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
- Three volunteering days per year
- Flexible and agile working arrangements
- Comprehensive learning and development programme
- Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
- Zip car scheme
- Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
- Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
- Subsidised gym membership