Specialist Commissioning Lead
Gloucester
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Specialist Commissioning Lead
- Job Location: 92-96 Westgate Street
- Salary: £46,731 - £49,764 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Closing Date: 01/06/2025
- Job Requisition Number: 10805
- This post is not open to job share
About the Team and Role
An exciting opportunity has become available to work in the Specialist Commissioning Team for Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs (SEN). The team makes a significant and positive impact on the lives of Children and Young People and their families. By working directly with schools and various professionals, you can contribute to ensuring that Children and Young People receive appropriate support and opportunities for their development and learning.
Being part of the Specialist Commissioning Team gives you the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders, such as educators, social workers, healthcare professionals and policy makers. This interdisciplinary approach fosters a stimulating work environment, enabling you to gain valuable insights, share expertise, and develop your own professional network.
The overall purpose of this role is to ensure the quality of educational provision is in line with commissioning practice and that effective quality assurance and monitoring ensures CYP with SEND receive education in line with their need and the providers offer. You will need to be aware of appropriate processes and policies, underpinned by legislation and guidelines relating to working with CYP. Specific activities will include the quality assurance and subsequent monitoring of independent special and mainstream schools. You will be a solution focussed practitioner and work collaboratively with providers to support school leadership, curriculum and safeguarding practices that best support some of the most complex/vulnerable children/young people in Gloucestershire. This role will include working across education, health, and social care to promote good practice.
About You:
To be successful in this role, you will need to have a proven track record in leadership and management. You will also have experience of managing statutory and non-statutory agreed processes with an excellent knowledge of the SEN sector. You will bring experience of multi-agency working and school leadership. You will need to display knowledge of inspection frameworks and the Independent School Standards.
You will be professionally curious and value working collaboratively as a team to share good practice.
About Us
As you’d expect, we offer an attractive package of benefits which makes a career in Local Government both flexible and rewarding. Here are some of the benefits we offer in return for your hard work.
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays.(pro-rata)
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Free offsite car parking.
• Safe, supportive and positive working environment with regular 121 supervision.
• Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
How to apply
If you feel you have the skills, desire and experience required to make a positive difference then please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” Button.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Tracy Oosthuizen via email at tracy.oosthuizen@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Interviews will take place 11th June 2025.
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-
Specialist Commissioning Lead - Job Profile
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.