Full-time - 37 hours
Permanent
This is an exciting time to work in commissioning for a CQC rated ‘Good’ Local Authority. Here at Telford & Wrekin Council, we have been judged to be Excellent in terms of delivering good quality, person-centred social care. This is the result of a strong team approach where commissioners have worked alongside social care colleagues and providers to Protect, Care and Invest to improve vulnerable people’s outcomes. We now have a vacancy for a Commissioning Specialist who can continue this strong team approach.
This is an extremely varied role that will require you to manage several projects at the same time. Some of the focused areas of the role you will work to deliver are:
* Implementation of the Ageing Well Strategy and All Age Carers Strategy through the respective Partnership Boards
* Overseeing the Adult Social Care Front Door and respective commissioned services
* Leading the Carers Commissioning Portfolio with Commissioning Officer support
* Overseeing local commissioned advocacy services
* Commissioning across domiciliary care, residential care and nursing for physical disabilities and older people
* Working with colleagues in Housing to develop the local offer in Telford & Wrekin including oversight of Extra Care, Retirement Living and Preventative Housing
* Working with colleagues within the Assistive Technology and Sensory Team, overseeing commissioning for telecare/care alarms and assistive technology
* Leading on the commissioning of Community Equipment Services
* Enhancing a community first and strengths based community approach locally across the Borough
* Working with Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB as a System Lead for Dementia, Falls and Palliative and End of Life Care
* Strategic commissioning with other Commissioning Specialists, such as workforce development, MPS development and regional work with ADASS.
Your role will be essential to commissioning good quality services that support people to remain independent, prevent deterioration and enable them to have control over the life they want to lead. To do this effectively you will be a resilient self-motivated individual with attention to detail and will use your commissioning experience, project management, inter-personal skills and knowledge of adult care services. As an innovative, vibrant thinker, you will influence colleagues, negotiate with, and manage providers to deliver both best value for money and effective, high quality services. Your understanding of the Council’s cost challenges, operating processes and legislation around adult social care and older people and physical disabilities, in particular, will drive you to make a difference in improving outcomes and enabling people to ‘live well’. Focusing on continuous improvement methodologies, you will work closely with Adult Social Care teams, other commissioners, partners such as Health Colleagues, Care Associations, people with lived experience and wider Council teams to ensure commissioned services are fit for purpose and meet need.
As a resilient, outcomes driven team player, your excellent communication skills will be invaluable to ensure that Council colleagues and stakeholders are regularly and appropriately updated regarding the progress of commissioning projects. In addition, Council Colleagues and key stakeholders will look to you as a reliable informative member of the team who can organise themselves well.
Please click on the links below to view the job description and person specification.
At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice.
Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check. It is an offence to apply for a role that involves engaging in regulated activity with children and adults in vulnerable circumstances if you are barred from working with one or both of these groups.
We value our employees and offer staff rewards and plenty of opportunities for personal development and career progression including:
* Competitive rates of pay
* Automatic access to a secure, flexible and tax efficient Local Government Pension Scheme
* Staff benefits and discounts including salary sacrifice schemes
* Free on-site parking
* Generous leave entitlement (24 days rising to 32 days) plus 8 bank holidays and an additional concessionary day
* Free access to our employee assistance programme and confidential counselling
* Flexible and mobile working policy - we are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home – our approach is to promote greater level of flexible working around personal and family commitments
Please note that Telford & Wrekin Council do not hold a sponsorship licence for visas.
Attached documents
Job Description and Person Specification
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