Job summary
We have an exciting development opportunity for an18-month fixed termrole within Adults Commissioning.You will be joiningour innovative and supportive team as aSenior Commissioning Officer, assistingintermediate Care Services to enable people who need support and reablement to be discharged from hospital. This is an integrated health and social care partnership.
Well, for a start, were a hugely ambitious council, committed to improving lives for the residents, communities and businesses of Somerset.
And thats why were working so hard to build a sustainable organisation with a culture that rewards, values and recognises our staff, and gives everyone here the opportunity to grow and develop, personally and professionally.
If youre looking for a place where your work truly matters where YOU truly matter we might be just right for you.
We also promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
Main duties of the job
Were working to improve the lives of people in Somerset and youll be a key part of that.
Your day-to-day work will involve:
- Providing expertise and strong management to drive performance and to commission and/or deliver the integrated system priorities and meet service targets within Intermediate Care.
- Providing clarity, management and motivation in delivering the Operating Model for Intermediate Care as part of transformation programmes as required.
- Being akey contributor and shaper of future direction for Intermediate Carein Somerset, supporting the Head of Intermediate Care.
- Leading the strategic commissioning of Intermediate Care providers and the development of future models of integrated care in the community, developing links to neighbourhood teams across Adult Social Care and Health.
- Leading the commissioning activity for the intermediate care providers on D2A, bedded pathways and the voluntary sector.
- Working closely with both our commissioned Intermediate Care providers and NHS provider services including our Acute and Community Hospitals, Hospital Social Work Teams, to ensure a robust model of capacity and demand are met.
- Being outcome focussed and wanting the best for Somerset adults who need short term rehabilitation and reablement as a part of their discharge plan.
About us
We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.
We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:
- We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
- Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Staff discounts in gyms.
- Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
- Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
- A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
- My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Responsibilities & Duties
1. Work with the
Service Manager and other team members to develop a shared understanding of
the specific objectives set for the Service and to design/implement a work
programme that will deliver them.
Undertake the full range of tasks within the commissioning process.
2. Analysis
-
Gather qualitative and quantitative evidence and
trends.
-
Understand the market and the extent to which it can
meet needs. Understand financial data.
Use the full range of qualitative and quantitative techniques
available to evaluate the effectiveness or likely effectiveness of existing
or alternative services against the full range of outcomes sought.
- Use expert
knowledge, co-production skills, and thorough in-depth and meaningful
engagement and analyse with existing and potential service users and other
stakeholders.
3. Design
-
Specify the nature and scope of the services/provision
required.
-
Set the vision and context of area of commission,
define outcomes and consider available options, resources, equality and risk
implications. Research and analyse
other organisations practice and consider how this could be applied within
the Council where this would be beneficial.
Produce clear and concise proposals and recommendations for
consideration by decision makers, which achieve the range of outcomes sought
within the budgetary constraints specified.
-
Design the work programme to meet the range of service
objectives delegated. Establish and
build upon connections with related strands of work, initiatives and projects
within the Service and the Councils wider commissioning function.
-
Engage with senior officers/Members to assess and test outcomes
to ensure acceptance.
4. Prepare
-
Work with staff, providers and potential providers to
ensure that the right services are available to meet current and future
needs.
-
Influence staff at senior levels within internal and
external providers.
5. Implement
-
Ensure that the right service is in place and that
outcomes can be met.
-
Ensure a highly structured approach is in place to
manage tender or other procurement processes.
-
Put in place appropriate Service Level Agreements or
Contracts, governance structures, transition plans, and oversee the
mobilisation of a service to go live point or the de-mobilisation of a
service no longer required.
6. Manage
-
Ensure that outcomes, statutory requirements and
contract terms are met. Check detail with authoritative sources to ensure
the Council is not subject to legal challenge.
-
Ensure action is taken to address risk of
non-delivery. Manage the contract, the
relationship with the supplier, define key performance indicators (KPIs) that
enable success to be quantified and measured, and ensure that effective
systems are in place to monitor KPIs and report on performance.
-
Work with technical specialists in the Customers and
Communities team, to ensure that customers are at the heart of this
process. Ensure continuous improvement
and put in place structure programmes to meet these.
-
Lead and facilitate an appropriate work programme with
key stakeholders and partner organisations to enhance quality, value for
money and achieve financial savings in commissioned services and co-produce
ideas for new models of delivery.
-
Recommend changes to policy, procedures and practice
and identify likely costs, timetable and resource implications and
savings. Provide support to a
Commissioning Officer (CO).
-
Participate in a specific area of Adult & Health
(A&H) commissioning, eg long term care and support, personalisation,
prevention and early intervention, community safety. Work on assignments in other areas of the
A&H commissioning function or manage staff from other areas on short term
assignments.
-
Play a key role in developing and sustaining the
commissioning culture within SCC and partner agencies.
7.
Understand, uphold and promote the aims of
the Councils equality, diversity and inclusion policies; health, safety and
well-being of self and others; and organisational values in everything you
do. Equality and Diversity practice covers both interaction with staff,
service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and
promoting equality of opportunity for all.
Contacts & Relationships
-
Report to a Service Manager to undertake an individual
work programme aimed at delivering specific objectives delegated to the
Service, which involves a high degree of self-management and project
management (including overseeing the work of others when required).
-
Work collaboratively with other officers within the
Service and officers in other business areas of the Council, eg Operations,
Customers and Communities, Business Development, and with partners and
stakeholders. Maintain a network of
peer professionals working within or related to the field of commissioning,
both within the Council and wider.
Represent the Council at inter-agency forums and events in a
non-decision-making capacity, as required.
-
Maintain effective working relationships with providers
(internal or external), which involves being aware of and observing the
boundaries of the commissioning relationship and establishing a basis for
meaningful feedback and the practice of co-production. Communicate and demonstrate appropriate
professional knowledge to achieve credibility in the role.
-
Interact with Elected Members of the Council to make
them aware of and involve them of commissioning issues that affect their
communities.
Resources
Council
funded Revenue Budget £178m. Has
influence within specific areas of the budget and on the deployment of
commissioning budgets by developing reports and recommendations for the
commissioning (or de-commissioning) of services. In conjunction with the Service Manager
ensure that staff are deployed to best effect.
Help
to negotiate and manage high value contracts and has a lead role in
negotiating/managing medium/lower value contracts.
Key
partnerships include Strategic Partners Meeting (home care and residential care
providers), Adult Services Partnership Board, Safer Somerset Partnership,
Strategic Housing Partnership, Carers Partnership Board.
Attend
partnership meetings to facilitate information exchange and help to develop
partnership activity proposals.
Has
no direct line-management of staff but will help to matrix manage the
activities of other staff through programme/project lead role(s).
Further information specific
to this job
The successful
candidate has a responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of
the vulnerable people they are responsible for or come into contact with.
Somerset
County Council is subject to Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and
therefore the ability to speak fluent English will be an essential
requirement for customer-facing roles.
This job requires a criminal background check
(DBS) via the disclosure procedure.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Responsibilities & Duties
1. Work with the
Service Manager and other team members to develop a shared understanding of
the specific objectives set for the Service and to design/implement a work
programme that will deliver them.
Undertake the full range of tasks within the commissioning process.
2. Analysis
-
Gather qualitative and quantitative evidence and
trends.
-
Understand the market and the extent to which it can
meet needs. Understand financial data.
Use the full range of qualitative and quantitative techniques
available to evaluate the effectiveness or likely effectiveness of existing
or alternative services against the full range of outcomes sought.
- Use expert
knowledge, co-production skills, and thorough in-depth and meaningful
engagement and analyse with existing and potential service users and other
stakeholders.
3. Design
-
Specify the nature and scope of the services/provision
required.
-
Set the vision and context of area of commission,
define outcomes and consider available options, resources, equality and risk
implications. Research and analyse
other organisations practice and consider how this could be applied within
the Council where this would be beneficial.
Produce clear and concise proposals and recommendations for
consideration by decision makers, which achieve the range of outcomes sought
within the budgetary constraints specified.
-
Design the work programme to meet the range of service
objectives delegated. Establish and
build upon connections with related strands of work, initiatives and projects
within the Service and the Councils wider commissioning function.
-
Engage with senior officers/Members to assess and test outcomes
to ensure acceptance.
4. Prepare
-
Work with staff, providers and potential providers to
ensure that the right services are available to meet current and future
needs.
-
Influence staff at senior levels within internal and
external providers.
5. Implement
-
Ensure that the right service is in place and that
outcomes can be met.
-
Ensure a highly structured approach is in place to
manage tender or other procurement processes.
-
Put in place appropriate Service Level Agreements or
Contracts, governance structures, transition plans, and oversee the
mobilisation of a service to go live point or the de-mobilisation of a
service no longer required.
6. Manage
-
Ensure that outcomes, statutory requirements and
contract terms are met. Check detail with authoritative sources to ensure
the Council is not subject to legal challenge.
-
Ensure action is taken to address risk of
non-delivery. Manage the contract, the
relationship with the supplier, define key performance indicators (KPIs) that
enable success to be quantified and measured, and ensure that effective
systems are in place to monitor KPIs and report on performance.
-
Work with technical specialists in the Customers and
Communities team, to ensure that customers are at the heart of this
process. Ensure continuous improvement
and put in place structure programmes to meet these.
-
Lead and facilitate an appropriate work programme with
key stakeholders and partner organisations to enhance quality, value for
money and achieve financial savings in commissioned services and co-produce
ideas for new models of delivery.
-
Recommend changes to policy, procedures and practice
and identify likely costs, timetable and resource implications and
savings. Provide support to a
Commissioning Officer (CO).
-
Participate in a specific area of Adult & Health
(A&H) commissioning, eg long term care and support, personalisation,
prevention and early intervention, community safety. Work on assignments in other areas of the
A&H commissioning function or manage staff from other areas on short term
assignments.
-
Play a key role in developing and sustaining the
commissioning culture within SCC and partner agencies.
7.
Understand, uphold and promote the aims of
the Councils equality, diversity and inclusion policies; health, safety and
well-being of self and others; and organisational values in everything you
do. Equality and Diversity practice covers both interaction with staff,
service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and
promoting equality of opportunity for all.
Contacts & Relationships
-
Report to a Service Manager to undertake an individual
work programme aimed at delivering specific objectives delegated to the
Service, which involves a high degree of self-management and project
management (including overseeing the work of others when required).
-
Work collaboratively with other officers within the
Service and officers in other business areas of the Council, eg Operations,
Customers and Communities, Business Development, and with partners and
stakeholders. Maintain a network of
peer professionals working within or related to the field of commissioning,
both within the Council and wider.
Represent the Council at inter-agency forums and events in a
non-decision-making capacity, as required.
-
Maintain effective working relationships with providers
(internal or external), which involves being aware of and observing the
boundaries of the commissioning relationship and establishing a basis for
meaningful feedback and the practice of co-production. Communicate and demonstrate appropriate
professional knowledge to achieve credibility in the role.
-
Interact with Elected Members of the Council to make
them aware of and involve them of commissioning issues that affect their
communities.
Resources
Council
funded Revenue Budget £178m. Has
influence within specific areas of the budget and on the deployment of
commissioning budgets by developing reports and recommendations for the
commissioning (or de-commissioning) of services. In conjunction with the Service Manager
ensure that staff are deployed to best effect.
Help
to negotiate and manage high value contracts and has a lead role in
negotiating/managing medium/lower value contracts.
Key
partnerships include Strategic Partners Meeting (home care and residential care
providers), Adult Services Partnership Board, Safer Somerset Partnership,
Strategic Housing Partnership, Carers Partnership Board.
Attend
partnership meetings to facilitate information exchange and help to develop
partnership activity proposals.
Has
no direct line-management of staff but will help to matrix manage the
activities of other staff through programme/project lead role(s).
Further information specific
to this job
The successful
candidate has a responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of
the vulnerable people they are responsible for or come into contact with.
Somerset
County Council is subject to Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and
therefore the ability to speak fluent English will be an essential
requirement for customer-facing roles.
This job requires a criminal background check
(DBS) via the disclosure procedure.
Person Specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Positive, committed, adaptable, thorough and confident approach.
- Drive and self-motivation: a can-do attitude.
- Acts as a role model for change and adopts innovative approaches to enhance effectiveness and efficiency.
- Sound analysis and decision-making in dealing with complex and pressured service delivery and /or policy development matters.
- Able to work to deadlines and under pressure.
- Able to motivate others to work effectively and demonstrate a duty of care.
- Customer and community focused.
- Strong communication skills and a proven ability to influence and lead across disciplines and organisational boundaries.
- Access to / use of a vehicle is an essential requirement
Experience
Essential
- Significant knowledge and experience of Adult Health and Care.
- Proven experience in Adult care commissioning agenda.
- Experience of partnership working, including the ability to influence and lead multi-agency groups and projects to deliver services.
- Experience of leading in multi - disciplinary working environments. Demonstrable experience of engagement with communities/customers to help shape and inform improved services.
- Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of the statutory policy and strategic commissioning framework within which specialist services operate and their context within local government as a whole.
- A track record of the flexible use of available resources to enable the delivery of services on time and within budget.
- Change management experience.
- Ability to speak fluent English as stated in Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016)
Desirable
- Knowledge of the health commissioning agenda.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level / equivalent or able to demonstrate experience to work at this level.
Person Specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Positive, committed, adaptable, thorough and confident approach.
- Drive and self-motivation: a can-do attitude.
- Acts as a role model for change and adopts innovative approaches to enhance effectiveness and efficiency.
- Sound analysis and decision-making in dealing with complex and pressured service delivery and /or policy development matters.
- Able to work to deadlines and under pressure.
- Able to motivate others to work effectively and demonstrate a duty of care.
- Customer and community focused.
- Strong communication skills and a proven ability to influence and lead across disciplines and organisational boundaries.
- Access to / use of a vehicle is an essential requirement
Experience
Essential
- Significant knowledge and experience of Adult Health and Care.
- Proven experience in Adult care commissioning agenda.
- Experience of partnership working, including the ability to influence and lead multi-agency groups and projects to deliver services.
- Experience of leading in multi - disciplinary working environments. Demonstrable experience of engagement with communities/customers to help shape and inform improved services.
- Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of the statutory policy and strategic commissioning framework within which specialist services operate and their context within local government as a whole.
- A track record of the flexible use of available resources to enable the delivery of services on time and within budget.
- Change management experience.
- Ability to speak fluent English as stated in Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016)
Desirable
- Knowledge of the health commissioning agenda.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level / equivalent or able to demonstrate experience to work at this level.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
