Commissioning Manager - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Hamton's Resourcing

Hamton's Resourcing

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Hampton's are working in partnership with a well-established children's care provider who have had a very exciting vacancy arise for a Commissioning Manager to join the team and further develop their services.

You will be tasked with building deep rooted partnerships with Local Authorities to identify their needs and provide business information to position our clients services to meet such needs.

Within this role, you will assist in referral and admissions processesto drive up occupancy into our clients service lines across specialist residential, education and fostering services.

_Salary:
£45,000 - £50,000 + £4000 car allowance_

_Location:
Scotland (Preferably based in Edinburgh / Glasgow)_

_Reporting to:
Business Development Director_

Duties and Responsibilities

To be the primary customer interface between Local Authorities, Educational Services and Foster Care Services across a defined geographical area. The Relationship Manager will be accountable for building relationships that lead to new admissions and newservice development across our clients Residential, Educational and Fostering Services.
To develop partnerships with all levels of decision makers and influencers within Local Authorities, Educational and Fostering Services engaging customers sharing our clientns proposition within their specialist residential, education and fostering services.

Decision makers and influencers include Commissioning Teams, Children with Disabilities Teams, Social Workers, Youth Offender Teams, Youth Justice Teams, Educational Service Providers, Foster Placement Leads, CCG's and Service Procurement

To exercise professional judgement to help Local Authorities, Educational and Foster Services identify suitable young people for our services and to recommend, where appropriate, admission to our clients services
To develop professional relationships to achieve occupancy targets, revenue objectives and report on regional demand & trends
To manage the referral process and contribute to price negotiations, coordinating with Referral Coordinators and the Service Development Director. This may include identifying, writing and maintaining regional framework agreements, preferred provider lists,and contract tenders.

Experience and Qualifications:

Experience in specialist care environment, ideally in children's services
Experience of managing and developing a team.
Experience of business management and planning oversight
Experience of financial planning and budgeting
Experience of producing metric/KPI's
Experience of working in the private residential childcare sector or other residential settings

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