Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £54,971 (Level one) rising to £58,261 (Level Four) per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Location:Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG
We have an exciting opportunity to join our public health team, based within our Inclusion Health team. We are looking for an experienced senior commissioning manager looking to step into a new space and apply your skills for the benefit of those who are most excluded in society.
If you are passionate about making a difference to improve the health and wellbeing and life opportunities of people experiencing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage, this could be an opportunity for you!
What is Inclusion Health?
Led by a Helen, a Consultant in Public Health, the Inclusion Health team works on a wide range of public health agendas including: alcohol and drug use, mental health, suicide prevention, severe multiple disadvantage, homelessness, asylum seeker and refugee health, gambling, domestic abuse, violence reduction and financial wellbeing. It is a busy but important and rewarding area!
What is Severe Multiple Disadvantage?
Severe and multiple disadvantage is a priority in the Nottingham City Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy. Severe Multiple Disadvantage (SMD) refers to people with three or more of the following issues: homelessness or at risk of homelessness, problematic substance or alcohol use, poor mental health, offending or a victim of offending or domestic or sexual violence or abuse.
SMD can include other sources of disadvantage, for instance poor physical health, and for women, domestic and sexual abuse - and for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people, community isolation. Nottingham has the 8th highest prevalence of SMD in England - currently it is estimated that over 5,000 of the City's citizens experience SMD.
SMD mainly originates in adverse childhood experiences; approximately 85% of people facing SMD have experienced childhood trauma. This affects mental health which can lead to issues such as homelessness, substance use and offending. Services working with people facing SMD struggle to meet needs, because they are mainly set up to deal with single issues. The consequence for people facing SMD is their other issues prevent them from successfully engaging with single issue treatment or support.
About the Role
The Changing Futures Senior Commissioning Manager is a key leadership post within the Nottingham City Place-Based Partnership Changing Futures programme hosted within Nottingham City Council Public Health team.
The primary role of the Senior Commissioning Manager is to lead on and co-ordinate the development and delivery of all commissioning activity in the Changing Futures programme to improve the health and wellbeing and life opportunities of people experiencing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage. This will include the development of innovative and personalised approaches to joint commissioning across partner organisations that enable joined-up, flexible and person-centred care. The role will require cross-system working as well as expertise in commissioning, to push forward the innovations we want to develop and implement.
The Senior Commissioning Manager will build links across commissioning responsibilities relevant for people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage, such as with health and criminal justice commissioners. They will ensure added value from aligning Changing Futures activity alongside public health commissioning for other specialist SMD provision such as within substance use services, and connecting this with public health leadership on inclusion health, reducing inequalities and system change.
About You
The ideal candidate will:
1. Be an experienced commissioner to lead on all aspects of commissioning for the Changing Futures programme and develop and implement commissioning activity in agreement with the Changing Futures Programme Director and Changing Futures Delivery Board, in line with a workplan.
2. Work at a system level to influence local planning and the use of resources held across the wider system to deliver a more flexible, joined up, person-centred and sustainable approach to service delivery for people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage.
3. Be committed to challenging inequality, understanding that inequality and experience of discrimination can have a big impact on a person's life and on how they engage with services and the support available.
4. Be willing to listen in order to really hear and understand people's experiences, their views and ideas; with a real desire and willingness to learn and grow, with a commitment to your own personal development.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
What to do next:
We are holding a virtual informal Information Session about the role on Thursday 17th April 2nd 11-12:00pm. The session will include information about the job role, the team and a chance to ask any questions you may have. Please sign up by emailing sheona.goddard@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
Closing Date: 24th April 2025
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: In Nottingham planned for 16th May 2025.
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