Commissioning Officer - London, United Kingdom - tower Hamlets

tower Hamlets

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2 weeks ago

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Commissioning Officer:

Role Purpose:

Are you passionate about supporting the delivery of high quality services and ensuring positive outcomes for vulnerable people? We are seeking a Strategic Commissioning Officer to join our Born Well, Growing well team which sits within the Children & Culture directorate.

The role will be focused on providing support across the Children's Integrated Commissioning Team. This is an exciting opportunity to develop creative solutions in a challenging market for commissioned services.

The role will support the commissioning, contract management and market management of Children's Health & Social Care provision in the borough for Children & young People.

Ensuring that the services offer real choice, control and flexibility to the children, young people and their families of the borough, and value for money to the Council, is an equal priority.

Key Responsibilities:

This role provides the opportunity to join a dynamic and enthusiastic commissioning team in a busy inner-London borough.

Our well-established Children's commissioning service works in partnership to develop and deliver high quality provision and solutions that meet the care and support needs of Children, Young People and their families and carers.

We are in the process of establishing more formal integrated commissioning arrangements with our CCG partner, which makes this a particularly exciting time to join our team.

The role of Strategic Commissioning Officer covers a broad range of functions covering all aspects of the commissioning cycle. The post holder will focus flexibly on different elements depending on service demands and requirements.

This post will support the Children's and young people's Commissioning agenda.

This will include, but is not limited to, supporting the two Commissioning Manager and the two Health Commissioning managers in:

- commissioning and contract management, ensuring that services are person centred, outcome focused, inclusive, and offer value for money;
- promoting a sustainable and diverse Health & Social Care marketplace in the Borough.

Requirements:

The post holder will:

Have a good understanding of Health and social care processes, policies and provision
Have good problem solving, report writing and negotiation skills
Provide advice and support to provider organisations and facilitate communication between provider organisations, commissioners, operational managers, other statutory agencies and relevant professional bodies
Have an understanding of the contract process in order to risk manage contracted services via contract review and supporting monitoring officers as necessary
Have an understanding of the role of Ofsted, CQC (Care Quality Commission) and up to date statutory policy knowledge

Application Details:

This post is open to the following types of applicants: Redeployees/ Internal/ External

If this role is available to Internal employees only, this will include agency workers but does not include independent contractors or Skills Match trainees

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough.

We want people who aspire to our TOWER values:
Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups.

We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.

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