Head of Service - Commissioning

Location
Job type Contract
Salary Up to £550.00 per day
Consultant Billy Holland
Call +44 7458 154932
Reference HQ00097806_1571066892

Sanctuary Executive has a locum vacancy for an experienced and dedicated Head of Service to work within a Commissioning Service based in South West England. The ideal candidate will possess highly developed specialist knowledge of social work practice in children's services and be registered with the HCPC.

The salary for this locum Head of Service job is £550 per day (LTD Company Equivalent) and is a 3-month contract.

About the role:

  • You will lead a significant and complex programme of work to transform services in the Council, both in terms of improving sufficiency, quality and value for money. You will be responsible for developing a strategic approach for micro commissioning accommodation and community-based support for individual or groups of vulnerable children and adults in line with our overarching commissioning strategies.

  • You will lead a brokerage service comprising two adults' and one children's team, ensuring that they are matching customers with the appropriate provider/packages for their needs, at the lowest cost and within agreed timescales.

  • You will also lead a range of provider and customer engagement contracts as well as the programme management of the adult social care savings plan.

Requirements of the Head of Service:

  • Graduate with a relevant professional qualification and/or equivalent

  • Experience within commissioning and management

  • Extensive experience of leading commissioning programmes, ideally across both health and social care, as well as of providing effective leadership and management within a relevant field.

  • Essential that you have strong commercial acumen and high-level financial management skills with the ability to identify and achieve savings and robustly manage budgets as well as the ability to build and maintain supportive relationships, securing stakeholder support and commitment to course of action.

Contact:

This Head of Service job is advertised by Billy Holland; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.