Specialist Commissioning Manager
Gloucester
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Specialist Commissioning Manager
- Job Location Shire Hall, Gloucester
- Salary: £55,396 - £58,474
- Hours per Week: 37
- Contract Type: Fixed-term
- Duration: Until 31st March 2025
- Closing Date: 24th May 2024
- This post is not open to job share
“Gloucestershire: a great place for children and young people to grow up and live lives of choice and opportunity”
In our Children and Families department we will be accountable for our actions and decisions; be honest, learn and act with integrity; practice in a way that respects and is empowering for children and families, enabling individuals to be the architects of their own solutions; and be relentless in our pursuit of excellence.
To these ends we use a model of practice that is strengths-based, trauma-informed, relational, and systemic.
Our Children and Families commissioning team are undertaking important innovative work for Gloucestershire that connects to regional and national initiatives to:
- Best understand and meet the needs of our most complex children and young people.
- Deliver timely, outcomes-based and value-for-money commissioned provision.
- Deliver effective and consistent joined-up commissioning arrangements in complex circumstances.
We are therefore welcoming interest in this fixed-term role of specialist commissioning manager to support this innovation, systems development, and coordination of support for children and young people with complex needs. The postholder will work directly to the Assistant Director for Children's Integrated Commissioning, and will cooperate closely with colleagues in children's social care, health and education.
The role is initially until the 31st March 2025 subject to review.
If you would like to know more about this role, please contact Rob England (Acting Assistant Director for Children's Integrated Commissioning) on robert.england@gloucestershire.gov.uk
In return we will offer you:
- Regular formal and informal support.
- Safe, supportive, and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision.
- Access to relevant training and career progression.
- Annual leave of 25.5 days (pro rata) up to 30.5 days (pro rata) after 5 years employment.
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
- 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.
- Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply).
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-
Specialist Commissioning Manager Job Profile
This Position is subject to a DBS check.
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.