Commissioning Officers - Partnership & Commissioning Team

at  South Gloucestershire Council

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

The People department has launched an ambitious Commissioning Transformation Programme and you will be part of the team that will implement the changes. Ensuring that people in South Gloucestershire receive the support and services they need to live their lives as independently as possible, in the right setting and at affordable prices.
You will make a difference as a Commissioning Officer helping to improve the provision of care and support for people living in South Gloucestershire, by building strong partnerships especially with social care, housing and health service providers commissioned by the Council.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

• It is essential that you 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.
• You will need excellent interpersonal skills to establish a positive relationship with a wide variety of stakeholders’ contacts and customers.
• We require you to have have demonstrable experience of meeting service standards, targets and deadlines, be well organised with excellent time management skills and able to manage competing demands.
• You must be able to demonstrate clear and logical thinking, in assessing challenges and problem solving.
• Desirably, you’ll have a degree or professional qualification in social care, health care or business studies.

On a daily basis you will build strong partnerships with social care, housing, Public Health and health colleagues and provider organisations, to meet our strategic commitments for all the posts. While working collaboratively to support the development of the care provider market in South Gloucestershire to deliver department-wide commissioning priorities.

• In this role you will be working with providers who are commissioned by the Council to provide support to vulnerable adults.
• It will be your responsibility to monitor contracts to ensure services are delivered and are meeting outcomes.
• You will work in partnership with a wide range of partners so that we meet our strategic commitments.
• It is important that you work in co-production with colleagues, partners, people who use services and carers to ensure the services we commission meet outcomes.
• Using your experience and knowledge, you will support commissioning and partnership working for 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.