Interim Commissioning Officer - London, United Kingdom - Triumph Consultants Ltd

Triumph Consultants Ltd
Triumph Consultants Ltd
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What's involved with this role:


Interim

Commissioning Officer - Public Health

Reference no:
Southwark

Pay Rate:
£242


per day PAYE

Enhanced DBS required for this role.

  • Maintain a strategic overview of service performance and contract compliance for allocated Community Safety and Partnerships' work streams through liaison with lead commissioning officers, providers and officers within the Community Safety and Partnership' service.
  • Manage projects relating to the development, improvement, and specification of services, working closely with lead commissioners and other officers, and liaising as required with finance, legal and procurement officers to ensure compliance with contract and finance standing orders and its interface with partners' commissioning and procurement requirements.
  • Build and maintain strategic links, partnerships, and positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders in support of commissioning key Community Safety and Partnerships' services and their links with other related services across the organisation and partnership.
  • Lead on specific projects that help shape and influence the provider market to deliver departmental priorities, including leading on the development of market management and development strategies.
  • Maintain an overview of service performance and contract compliance through liaison with quality, performance, and contract monitoring colleagues to ensure that information and intelligence is used strategically and directly informs commissioning strategies and actions to secure improved service user outcomes.
  • Act as the first point of contact for external providers in relation to commissioning issues, taking responsibility for negotiating with providers and recommending the allocation of significant financial and other resources to the relevant governance and advisory boards.
  • Lead on the deployment of the most appropriate procurement vehicle to deliver high quality, value for money services, working closely with procurement, finance, and legal colleagues to ensure compliance with finance and contract always standing orders.
  • Lead on and manage strategic service reviews, working closely with providers, service managers, service users and other key stakeholders to plan and deliver effective change management programmes.
  • Develop service specifications for new or recommissioned services in order that they support the delivery of strategic priorities and planning decisions.
  • Produce reports, briefing papers and other documentation for DCRB, senior managers, Partnership Boards and Cabinet Members regarding specific service areas as required.
  • Participate in and, on occasions lead, crossdepartmental projects, consisting of flexible, outcomebased, fixedline project teams to deliver the rapid changes required by the new local and national policy and financial frameworks.
  • Ensure service users are meaningfully involved in service design and development, by organising and chairing workshops, consultation events, information events, forums and steering groups as appropriate.

"Role Requirements" - to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria: Qualifications/Knowledge:

  • Degree or equivalent recent and relevant experience at an equivalent level.
  • Relevant professional qualification in Commissioning and/or Procurement, or recent relevant experience.
  • Knowledge of current relevant legislation, statutory duties, responsibilities, and best practice in commissioning Public Health funded drug and alcohol treatment services.
  • Knowledge and understanding of the organisation and Department's objectives and goals to improve health and wellbeing for the local community, including more vulnerable children, young people and adults.
  • Understanding of the principles and best practice in the commissioning and monitoring of Public Health funded drug and alcohol treatment services for children, young people and adults.
  • Good understanding of equality issues and the role that commissioning and procurement can play in supporting wider agendas such as community cohesion, economic wellbeing and sustainability.

Experience:


  • Successful experience of working across organisational boundaries to deliver change and improved outcomes for children, young people, and adults.
  • Proven experience of successful commissioning to improve outcomes for children, young people, and adults.
  • Experience of effectively managing large work programmes that have involved managing change and introducing and developing new strategies and shaping and developing provider markets.
  • Successful experience of interagency working and planning and the delivery of targets under pressure to tight deadlines.
  • Experience of and working knowledge of financial frameworks and budget management.
  • Successful experience of analysing and interpreting complex data to inform the de
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