Positive Employment
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset | United Kingdom
Job description
Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a Commissioning Officer for our client a government organisation based in Bournemouth.
The successful candidate will support the Commissioning Manager by taking a key role in the commissioning cycle for social care, assessing needs, recommending priorities, commissioning services and managing provider performance, so that care needs are met and demand is managed.
This role will have a primary focus on managing key partnerships in the local care marketto ensure that vulnerable adults receive essential care and support. This includes people living in residential and extra care settings and people living in their own home and/or with dementia.
This is a 3 month starting contract with the possibility for extensions.
Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:
Research, collect, collate and analyse information about the local market in order to identify changes or developments in service provision, develop the local market and ensure a relentless focus on efficiency and value for money from commissioned services.
Stimulate stakeholder involvement in service re-design and development, ensuring proper involvement in decision-making undertaken by the relevant partnership or governance groups by organising and chairing workshops, consultation events, information events, forums and steering groups as appropriate.
Establish and maintain robust partnerships with commissioning partners, stakeholders and providers from a variety of organisations to ensure that services are robust, sustainable, jointly agreed, and service user interests are properly reflected in the design and delivery of services.
Develop and deliver resources and external training for the organisation and the care supply chain, including SMEs and the voluntary and community sector to support the building of capacity and capability internally and within the local/national market, and help ensure that service provision can meet the organisation’s wider strategic objectives.
Regularly monitor and evaluate services commissioned, ensuring they are delivering value for money and quality, identifying any service issues and developing plans and actions for remedial action, to ensure that performance is maintained, and service users’ safety and well being maintained.
Take a lead role in the development of contractual arrangements and tendering for adult social care services, verifying that they are delivered in accordance with contractual performance requirements, within regulations, and deliver value for the organisation.
Co-ordinate cross-departmental projects, creating flexible, outcome-based project teams to deliver changes required by new and emerging local and national policy and financial frameworks.
Personal Requirements:
Degree level education or equivalent.
High level of understanding of the care sector and the Social Care Transformation agenda.
A good working knowledge of partnership working and developing services with partners.
An ability to identify, understand and apply legislative changes that could impact on the way in which commissioned contracts are developed and monitored with the social care service area.
Knowledge of project planning, project and budget management.
Experience of using procurement and contracting procedures (including legal and regulatory requirements and the risks of non-compliance), and of developing specifications and contract documentation.
Working Hours: 09:00am – 17:00pm, Monday – Friday
Pay: £24.71 p/h
Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.
Key Words: Commissioning, Procurement, Buying, Category, Social Care
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