Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Working Age Adult Strategic Commissioning Team at Cornwall Council. The role has a priority focus on Community Support and Advocacy, but will flexibility work across the Working Age Adult portfolio.

As a Commissioning Manager the role holder will be part of the People Commissioning Services, which is responsible for the commissioning, contracting, quality assurance and purchasing of social care services. We are delivering a significant transformation across People Commissioning and have an ambition to ensure that we commission and provide quality homes and person-centred care that gives choice to Cornish residents who have Care Act eligible needs. We are looking for a passionate, committed and talented Commissioning Manager to join the Working Age Adult team to support and lead areas of this work.

Within People Commissioning we are driving a number of key programmes of work that are co-designed with our residents and businesses to deliver outcomes promoting people’s strengths and developing safe and caring communities where people live well.

We are one of the largest unitary Councils and have created the People Commissioning function to support both Children’s and Adult Care Services.

This opportunity is for people who are both interested in building a career in public services and social care as well as opportunities for those who have direct commissioning experience.

If this is you, then come and be part of our innovative People Commissioning Team.

A broad set of the responsibilities involved are set out below:-

•Establishing strategic commissioning approaches and embedding intelligence/data driven insights to promote outcome delivery for residents across people services,
•Leading on innovation, quality and excellence in service delivery,
•Managing patterns of demand differently to improve outcomes for individuals and to drive sustainability,
•Establishing strong and effective partnerships to commission services jointly across with health, housing and wider partners,
•Leading the strategic transformation and reshaping of services over the medium to longer term, and
•Working collaboratively with providers, not only to deliver excellent services but also supporting them to deliver added social, economic and environmental value to the Cornish economy.

We have provided a summary of the role below. The detail is set out in the role profile.

The Role:

Commissioning Managers across the People Commissioning function are senior officers reporting to the Strategic Commissioning Leads and will manage a team of Commissioning Officers and Assistant Commissioning Officers in the delivery of complex strategic commissioning priorities and supplier relationship management.

The role holder will be responsible for supporting the development, delivery and implementation of strategies, planning new policies, commissioning frameworks and delivery of all of the strategic activities across the Working Age Adults Portfolio.

The role holder will ensure that services are commissioned in a way that has a focus on best practice, reflective learning, coproduction, codesign, delivering good quality service provision, best value and cost effectiveness.

The post holder will manage the contracting relationship across several critical community support contracts including Day Opportunities and Inclusion Support, Supported Employment, Independent Advocacy and Self-directed Support.

The post holder will work with residents, stakeholders and the market to respond to person centred creative support planning.

Cornwall People Commissioning Team are seeking applications from passionate, committed and creative commissioners with the skills and dedication to drive transformation within our team and deliver meaningful outcomes for residents.

This role provides, leadership, management and oversight to the areas of work of officers within this team but also has responsibility for directly leading on driving delivery across the entire commissioning cycle.

The Council is seeking Commissioning Managers that are open, transparent and collaborative, focusing always on the impact and outcomes that can be achieved and being ambitious for the continuous improvement of services and improved outcomes for people.

This is a public /customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern:

The working pattern will usually be 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday with a requirement to work a minimum of one day a week from the office at New County Hall, in Truro. There may be some occasional requirements to work out of hours due to public meetings and engagement.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Degree level or equivalent experience and/or hold a relevant professional qualification. Not excluding of relevant achievement aligned with a range of relevant experience.
• Relevant management or professional qualification.
• Expert knowledge in a relevant professional area and proven track record of using professional expertise to develop and deliver strategic objectives and expected outcomes.
• Strong ability to lead and promote innovation, new ways of working and collaboration across a wide range of stakeholders, including other Council directorates, Health, providers and communities.
• The ability to represent the Service and the Council locally and regionally, including the ability to produce accurate performance reports for the Senior Management Team.
• Ability to prepare clear concise written and verbal reports for a range of audiences including elected members, Chief Officers, people who use services, partner organisations, residents and central government representatives.
• Self-motivated with ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines, without close supervision, adopting a flexible, problem solving and creative approach to tasks.
• Ability to manage a team of officers, carrying out effective performance management of staff and demonstrates understanding of policies related to capability, disciplinary matters and grievances.
• Knowledge of the service specific areas and impacts on Local Authority duties.
• Dynamic and experienced commissioner who will provide strong and visionary leadership.
• Have significant experience of commissioning, contracting and performance in a relevant setting.
• Extensive experience of working and influencing the direction of services within a highly political environment.
• Experience of strategic supplier relationship management, including contract management. This includes understanding and analysing performance data.
• Understanding and experience of commissioning, procurement and contract management in education, health and social care for both children’s and adult services.
  

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What you’ll get in return:

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact cheryl.bridges@cornwall.gov.uk or martha.reed@cornwall.gov.uk

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.

Employer Description

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.