Senior Commissioning Manager

Job summary

Do you have experience in a strategic commissioning role?

With the ability to give detailed expert, technical and management advice? This permanent, full-time opportunity could be perfect for you?

As the Senior Commissioning Manager, you will work within the Public Health commissioning team which provides a countywide, community focussed function, meeting the agreed strategic outcomes and priorities, and meeting political, statutory, performance and financial measures through the effective management of the commissioning resource of the Public Health Grant and other national grants.

Reporting to the Head of Commissioning - Public Health, you will manage a range of contracts, grants and service level agreements that are evidence based to achieve good public health outcomes. You will work closely with Public Health consultants and other directorates within the council, and with relevant NHS Sussex commissioning leads.

You will provide professional leadership to a team commissioning a range of services addressing substance misuse in West Sussex. In addition, you will represent WSCC Public Health in regional and national meetings relating to substance misuse. You will focus on specific areas but will be expected to use your broad commissioning skills and expertise to contribute flexibly as required.

Main duties of the job

• Excellent stakeholder management,you will need to work closely with the relevant NHS Commissioners, Councillors, senior leaders and partners, and develop strategic relationships with a range of stakeholders including GPs, providers (hospital trusts, private sector, voluntary sector), and local developments at a Sussex wide level.

• You will need to have a substantial understanding of the Health and Social Care system in West Sussex and methodologies for analysing trends and future requirements.

• You will need to understand the full commissioning cycle and demonstrate experience of seeing through change processes in a complex multi-agency environment.

• Sound knowledge of Substance Misuse services.

If you would like to apply for this fantastic opportunity, please follow this link and apply directly on our WSCC jobsite, by uploading your CV and covering letter. http://emea3.mrted.ly/3qnjj

About us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellentlocal government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of30days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• arange of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependencyand adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see ourStaff discounts pageif you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme,Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

Employer details

Employer name

West Sussex County Council

Address

County Hall

West Street

Chichester

West Sussex

PO19 1RG

Employer's website

https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

West Sussex County Council

Address

County Hall

West Street

Chichester

West Sussex

PO19 1RG

Employer's website

https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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