Commissioning Officer - Taunton, United Kingdom - Somerset County Council

Somerset County Council
Somerset County Council
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Taunton, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Some key information
Rewarding opportunity to commission services and improve the lives of children in care.

  • Flexible working available, using a hybrid model working from home and County Hall, Taunton
  • 30 days annual leave
  • You will be part of a supportive, innovative and award winning team, building a culture where amazing people like you can do their best work
  • Fixed term contract for 1 year to cover maternity leave

What will I be doing?
We're working to improve the lives of Children in Somerset - and you'll be a key part of that.

Your day-to-day work will involve:
- undertaking the full range of tasks within the commissioning process involving a high degree of self-management over a range of projects and services.
- working collaboratively with other officers within the team and across key partners such as education, health and social care, maintaining effective working relationships with providers and stakeholders, including the voluntary, community and private sector
- ensuring children and young people are getting the right care and support from all of our foster carers.


Your main priority will be looking at how we re-design both our in-house fostering service and working more closely with our external fostering agencies.


What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?
We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be.

  • You will have the ability to think strategically, demonstrate strong communication and negotiation skills and make use of data and information to aid understanding of specific issues.
  • Ideally, you will have knowledge and experience in fostering, and supporting foster carers and children in communities, or demonstrable experience within a similar field of work.
We're proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset.

An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.


What's in it for me?

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 worklife 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.

Anything else I should know?
The salary range for this role is £38,834 to £39,186 per annum


For further information or an informal discussion about this exciting opportunity, please contact Natalie Venn who is the current postholder on You will be able to carry out this role working from home with the opportunity to travel if required.


Interviews are scheduled for 29/02/2024

DBS information
This post requires a criminal background check via the Basic Disclosure procedure.


Job Reference:
SCC04690
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