Senior Commissioning Officer - Leeds, United Kingdom - Leeds City Council

Leeds City Council

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Senior Commissioning Officer - Grade PO2

Internal vacancy. Applications will only be considered from existing Leeds City Council employees.

We are looking for a Senior Commissioning Officer (Permanent PO2) to join the Working Age Adults (WAA) Commissioning Team in Adults and Health.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an established and exceptionally supportive and creative team, working together to provide good quality, person-centred accommodation and community services in Leeds for the benefit of Leeds citizens with support needs - every day brings new opportunities to learn and is a great opportunity for someone passionate about ensuring people receive the care and support they should have.

Does this sound like you?

The new post-holder will be working within the Learning Disability sector.

The focus of this role is on supporting external providers to run good quality accommodation services - celebrating strengths and achievements and providing support to improve any areas of challenge as a 'critical friend' to providers, working in partnership with social work colleagues.

There will also be opportunities to take part in commissioning activities, for example service consultations and reviews, to inform future service provision in the city.

All of our roles across the team are flexible and the work programme is re-organised occasionally to make the most of everyone's strengths.

See the end of the advert for more information about the WAA team and details for an informal Information Session - 3rd July (open to all).

The Working Age Adults work programme will consist of the following:
Contract management, quality assurance of a range of services and providers within Working Age Adults Commissioning
Line management, support and development of Commissioning Officer (SO2) (as appropriate)
Work alongside health colleagues (ICB) and social care colleagues on shared outcomes and priorities (Transforming Care, LD Pooled budget, Mental Health Accommodation review, Bespoke provision)
Work on a wide range of contracts and commissioning work streams for Learning Disability, Mental Health and Physical and

Sensory Impairment

This will involve work towards costing/funding of services, reviews and recommissioning of existing and new contracts, grants and services
Support the team in achieving outcomes around equality, diversity and inclusion through making individual contribution and advocating for people's rights as opportunity arises

Key post requirements include:

Ability to undertake contract management with external suppliers, promoting good practice in relation to delivery of personcentred care
Ability to develop productive working relationships which create respect, trust and confidence and act as a 'critical friend' to providers
Ability to participate in management of programmes and projects
Ability to be proactive and wellorganised in your own workload, prioritising tasks, sharing relevant information with managers to flag up any risks as needed
Ability to communicate confidently, with a cando approach
Ability to analyse and interrogate a range of varied and complex data using a variety of methods, including relevant IT software, to inform future delivery and planning experience using Excel and CIS Apex would be useful
Ability to improve service quality and support a culture that drives up standards and performance
Ability to understand financial and service hours information, working towards budget efficiencies and ensure value for money on

Council spend

Line Manager:
Post will be line managed by one of the Commissioning Managers in the LD Sector. We use matrix management.

Interviews are currently planned to take place on 14th August.

Informal Information Session - Mon 3rd July, 3-4pm (via Teams)

About the WAA team:

Working Age Adults (WAA) Commissioning team brings together commissioning and contract management (quality assurance) for commissioned adult services for people with learning disabilities, mental health needs, neurodivergence and/or physical and sensory impairments.

We are an integrated commissioning team with health (Integrated Commissioning Board, used to be Clinical Commissioning Group).

We are a values-driven, supportive and creative team who are involved in high profile cross-directorate areas of commissioning across Leeds.

This is an opportunity to work with like-minded individuals in Leeds to support and further develop accommodation and community services in Leeds to be the best they can be - to benefit the citizens of Leeds who need them the most.

We cover a wide variety of work so there is always opportunity to learn something new and every day is different

**We promote diversity and want a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds and the communities we serve. Leeds City Council is an Inclusive employer, ranked 70 on the Stonewall top 100 employers 2023 list. We are also an Age friendly employer, a Mindful employer a