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Location: Walsall
Pay rate (Assignment rate): £600 per day
Contract Length: 3-Months
Shift Pattern: Working outside of standard office hours may be required. There is a requirement to work flexibly at all times with due regard to prevailing workloads and priorities. Attendance at evening and other out-of-hour meetings as required although this is not expected to be regular or routine.
Duties:
- Communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English
- Lead the development, implementation, maintenance of the People Commissioning function
- Oversee performance of the Commissioning service whilst driving consistency across People commissioning
- Work closely with Procurement & Contract Management Head of Service to ensure resources are deployed appropriately
- Accountable for leading on all aspects of people commissioning activity, including effectively managing, administering and coordinating all activities associated with the commissioning cycle (except procurement & contract management)
- Defining “what good looks like” and developing procedures to implement as well as sharing policies, procedures and guidelines in relation to commissioning
- Work alongside Commissioning Leads to ensure commissioning activities are consistent and effective
- Provide support, direction and guidance as well as leadership and expert knowledge to the Commissioning Team
- Liaising with Procurement & Contract Manager HOD to ensure the efficient deployment of resources across the hub
- Act as a conduit for communication between hub areas
- Brokering a service - encourages a more consistent and informed way of brokering services for users, using market insight and knowledge about providers who can best meet their needs
- Creation of service design / specification documents
- Decommissioning existing services where applicable and identifying what needs to replace it (if anything)
Requirements for the Head of Service role:
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the capability to deal with people at all levels, to facilitate engagement with transformational activity
- Able to effectively operate in a matrix environment
- Able to demonstrate a broad and thorough understanding of social care commissioning and the role of commissioning in a whole system approach to care
- Able to evidence a strategic approach to market management that encourages co-production and partnership
- Able to demonstrate a commercial approach to negotiation and the management of key contracts
- Able to work in an environment of uncertainty and continual change
- Able to feel comfortable making decisions and setting direction without having the full picture and re-focus as details emerge
- Able to take forward areas of internal and partner work in a thoughtful, proactive way, linking this back to internal practices and highlighting areas where growth or change is required, with attendant threat and risk analysis
- Demonstrate an authoritative voice on matters of strategy change and policy, engendering trust and confidence in your approach
- 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
- Educated to degree level, preferably with a post graduate qualification, or able to demonstrate the appropriate level of experience
- A recognised programme or project management qualification
- Quality improvement qualification or willingness to develop
- An awareness of, and commitment to, equality of opportunity
- Awareness of, and commitment to, confidentiality and handling data
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