Job summary
Location: Aylesbury
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Specialist Commissioning Manager to join the team to support a dedicated review team for complex clients with learning disability. The post holder will work closely with social workers to provide commissioning support to a programme of targeted reviews for high cost clients. The reviews will aim to maximise the potential for independence for the individual and ensure value for money for the public purse.
The post will be managed by the Service Director for Integrated Commissioning and will work closely with both the review team in Adult Social Care and the All Age Disability Team in Integrated Commissioning
Salary:£60,583- £63,690 per annum (salary will be pro rata based on hours worked)
Contract: 1 year fixed term contract
Working hours: 22.5 hours per week
Main duties of the job
We are looking for motivated, ambitious, and inspiring person to join us. You will be entitled to a range of different benefits to make sure you are happy both at work and at home.
Specific activities of the role will include:
- Ensuring providers are clear about the Councils expectations for them to achieve specified outcomes from core support and additional hours
- Providing a robust challenge process with providers in regard to cost and the use of additional hours
- Working with social workers on an holistic approach to the range of services individual clients are receiving and the cost effectiveness of this
- Effective utilisation of the CareCubed costing tool to support dialogue around cost and value for money (training will be available).
- Working with the review team to identify the gaps in provision to meet the needs of disabled adults with complex needs in-county and working with the All Age Disability Team to develop potential solutions.
About us
In April 2020, Buckinghamshire Council became a unitary authority, ensuring that the needs of residents in Buckinghamshire are served by a single council. Buckinghamshire is an ambitious, rapidly growing county, and our economy is one of the strongest in the country. It is an area of outstanding natural beauty and ranks as one of the top rural areas to live in the UK, whilst also being very well connected only an hour from London on the train. The county has a rich history and heritage and is the birthplace of the international Paralympic movement.
The Integrated Commissioning Service commissions high quality and value for money health, social care, and prevention services to enable Buckinghamshire residents of all ages to access the right services, in the right place at the right time.
We do this by:
- Putting people at the centre of everything we do through actively listening, engaging, and focusing on outcomes
- Developing open, honest, and collaborative relationships with providers, residents, and stakeholders
- Acting as a catalyst for change and integration by encouraging innovation
- Following an ethical, evidence-based, and inclusive approach which seeks to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes
- Supporting resilience and improvement and measuring impact
- Investing in our own staff by developing and sharing knowledge and skills, and recruiting new talent
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will need to demonstrate the following confidently and effectively:
- Experience of working in a senior commissioning role in a complex organisation with demonstrable leadership skills.
- Specific experience of commissioning services for clients with learning disability and / or autism or very similar services.
- A strong understanding of residential learning disability services, including different service models and the costs associated with running services. Previous experience of working in this or a similar sector would be an advantage.
- An understanding of what good quality care looks like for individuals with complex learning disability and or Autism.
- Excellent financial literacy, including the ability to understand financial models, organisational financial statements, and annual accounts.
- Experience of designing, leading, and managing change, including previous experience of delivering projects that improve outcomes for people and value for money.
- Able to influence others, build and manage effective relationships up to Director level across the health and social care economy. Comfortable and confident engaging in complex or challenging negotiations.
- Able to use professional curiosity and creativity to develop new and innovative solutions.
- Strong verbal, presentation, and written skills with confidence in delivering complex information to senior stakeholders in a concise manner
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and a complex work programme in a fast-paced environment
Any-Desk:
As an any-desk worker, youll need to be connected to our network to access digital folders and resources, but this can either be from home or an office location when required. You will be required to work from the office a couple of times a week, depending on your role and team requirements.
Please see job summary attached for full details.
Other information
Access to and use of a vehicle is an essential requirement.
Interview date: Thursday 30th May 2024
For further information, please contact Tracey Ironmonger, Service Director for Integrated Commissioningtracey.ironmonger@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent cautions and/or unspent convictions
For further information on how long it takes for cautions and convictions cautions to become spent, please refer to our guide on theRehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (updated 2023) | Nacro
We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.
Buckinghamshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults at risk.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will need to demonstrate the following confidently and effectively:
- Experience of working in a senior commissioning role in a complex organisation with demonstrable leadership skills.
- Specific experience of commissioning services for clients with learning disability and / or autism or very similar services.
- A strong understanding of residential learning disability services, including different service models and the costs associated with running services. Previous experience of working in this or a similar sector would be an advantage.
- An understanding of what good quality care looks like for individuals with complex learning disability and or Autism.
- Excellent financial literacy, including the ability to understand financial models, organisational financial statements, and annual accounts.
- Experience of designing, leading, and managing change, including previous experience of delivering projects that improve outcomes for people and value for money.
- Able to influence others, build and manage effective relationships up to Director level across the health and social care economy. Comfortable and confident engaging in complex or challenging negotiations.
- Able to use professional curiosity and creativity to develop new and innovative solutions.
- Strong verbal, presentation, and written skills with confidence in delivering complex information to senior stakeholders in a concise manner
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and a complex work programme in a fast-paced environment
Any-Desk:
As an any-desk worker, youll need to be connected to our network to access digital folders and resources, but this can either be from home or an office location when required. You will be required to work from the office a couple of times a week, depending on your role and team requirements.
Please see job summary attached for full details.
Other information
Access to and use of a vehicle is an essential requirement.
Interview date: Thursday 30th May 2024
For further information, please contact Tracey Ironmonger, Service Director for Integrated Commissioningtracey.ironmonger@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent cautions and/or unspent convictions
For further information on how long it takes for cautions and convictions cautions to become spent, please refer to our guide on theRehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (updated 2023) | Nacro
We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.
Buckinghamshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults at risk.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification
- - Masters or relevant management and/ or professional qualification
- and/or relevant experience
- - Evidence of continued professional, managerial and personal
- development
Desirable
- - Project management qualification
- - Will hold a relevant commissioning qualification
Experience
Essential
- - Working within a management capacity in a complex multi-agency
- service organisation
- - A successful track record of leading and managing change
- - Experience working in Childrens, Adults or Health services
- - Strong commissioning performance and/or contracting background
- - Previous experience of developing a quality framework for a service
- or service users to monitor impact, outcomes and value for money
- - Significant experience of implementing and aligning policies with
- delivery on the ground, translate strategy into detailed targets and
- plans, and put in place the necessary organisation to ensure the
- achievement of the Services objectives.
- - Significant experience of working successfully and effectively as part
- of a management team and conveying strategies, policies,
- objectives, and targets to team members.
- - A proven track record of leading and motivating multi-disciplinary
- staff teams and of developing a culture that has achieved a high level
- of performance and continuous service improvement.
- - A successful record of delivering customer focussed services that
- involves users and drives up standards and performance.
- - Evidence of working effectively in cooperation and partnership with
- a wide range of communities, partner agencies, private sector
- providers, public agencies, voluntary bodies and statutory authorities
- Please, see job description for detailed information.
Desirable
- Please, see job description for detailed information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification
- - Masters or relevant management and/ or professional qualification
- and/or relevant experience
- - Evidence of continued professional, managerial and personal
- development
Desirable
- - Project management qualification
- - Will hold a relevant commissioning qualification
Experience
Essential
- - Working within a management capacity in a complex multi-agency
- service organisation
- - A successful track record of leading and managing change
- - Experience working in Childrens, Adults or Health services
- - Strong commissioning performance and/or contracting background
- - Previous experience of developing a quality framework for a service
- or service users to monitor impact, outcomes and value for money
- - Significant experience of implementing and aligning policies with
- delivery on the ground, translate strategy into detailed targets and
- plans, and put in place the necessary organisation to ensure the
- achievement of the Services objectives.
- - Significant experience of working successfully and effectively as part
- of a management team and conveying strategies, policies,
- objectives, and targets to team members.
- - A proven track record of leading and motivating multi-disciplinary
- staff teams and of developing a culture that has achieved a high level
- of performance and continuous service improvement.
- - A successful record of delivering customer focussed services that
- involves users and drives up standards and performance.
- - Evidence of working effectively in cooperation and partnership with
- a wide range of communities, partner agencies, private sector
- providers, public agencies, voluntary bodies and statutory authorities
- Please, see job description for detailed information.
Desirable
- Please, see job description for detailed information.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
