Head of Service: People Commissioning - Walsall, United Kingdom - Tempting Recruitment

Tempting Recruitment
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Walsall, United Kingdom

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Exciting Career Opportunity:

Head of Service:
People Commissioning.

About Us:

At Tempting Recruitment, we take pride in connecting great talent with exciting opportunities. Our client, a leading council, is renowned for its empowering work culture and meaningful initiatives.


Main purpose of the job role:

  • Developing and maintaining Walsall Councils strategic priorities to help Directorates balance competing strategies to inform and enable the achievement of outcomes.
  • Operating an effective strategic review cycle, reviewing the Council's aims and priorities periodically, developing and implementing a methodology to track performance against overall goals
  • Ensuring all programmes align with the strategic priorities and core policies, and where appropriate leading crossdepartmental teams to deliver highquality outputs
  • Scoping, leading and managing crosscutting projects on complex and highprofile areas of strategic and partnership engagement working closely with teams across the Directorates as well as with regional and national stakeholders including the Integrated Care System.
  • Developing an 'all age' whole of life outcome based approach to commissioning for Walsall.
  • Developing priorities or new initiatives, presenting these to Cabinet, CMT, Elected Representatives and a wide range of other audiences
  • Ensuring recommendations are fully informed by use of data, evidence and robust analysis.
  • Working with Cabinet and or portfolio sponsors in a politically balanced way to ensure areas and groups' views are proportionately reflected in recommendations and are receiving of buyin. Needing to include appropriate behavioural science aspects to support effective ways of working
  • Responsible for managing a wide and varied specialist team that can lead different strands of work and able to think laterally about problem solving and encouraging continuous improvement.
  • Deputise for the Director on matters of commissioning at internal and external meetings or events as required.
  • Provide cover, when required, for other Heads of Service withing the Commissioning Procurement & Contract Management Function.
  • Any other duties exigent with the role and the service.

About You:


Role Requirements.

  • Significant experience of working collaboratively in high performing teams in matrix environments with a wide range of senior stakeholders to deliver change.
  • Able to deliver a whole of life approach to commissioning by experience gained through commissioning in Adults & Children's social care settings
  • Good analytical, conceptual and financial analysis skills, and familiarity with financial reporting tools with a demonstrable ability to develop and deliver against financial and resource constraints
  • Previous experience of delivering creativity, innovation and nudge activity within a complex organisation
  • Significant experience of the commissioning of care and support within an integrated care system.
  • Previous experience in establishing and/ or coordinating a multiagency research/partnerships across organisations
  • Previous experience of developing evidence based practice within a complex organisation
  • Previous experience in reporting to senior teams and working with Executive level managers across different agencies
  • Evidence of continuous professional development

Contract Duration:
  • 6 Months with a view to make permanent

Day Rate:
£600 a day (Negotiable) (Umbrella)


Commencement Date:
February 2024


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