Commissioning Officer - Children's Placements

at  South Gloucestershire Council

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.

WE’RE MAKING A DIFFERENCE, BE PART OF IT!

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

• 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