Adults Senior Commissioning Manager (TECH)

This role has a starting salary of £66,774 per annum, based on a 36-hour working week. This is a 24-month fixed term / secondment opportunity.

We are excited to be hiring a new Senior Commissioning Manager (TECH) to join our fantastic Technology Enabled Care and Homes (TECH) Programme. For internal candidates interested in the Secondment opportunity, please discuss with your Line Manager before submitting your application.

Rewards and Benefits

• 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service
• Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependants leave
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
• 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources

About the Team

Surrey currently operates a Countywide Enabling You with Technology service offering motion sensors, monitoring support and providing responder services to residents within their own home. We also operate several smaller scale pilot programmes supporting people in transition, those with mental health and learning disabilities and older people.

We now need to take considerable steps to drive this programme forward across directorates, maximising benefits to residents, carers, our own workforce and the wider care sector whilst of course improving our opportunities to make financial efficiencies in order to provide more care to more people.

With fantastic examples already out there, demonstrating the positive outcomes TECH can offer to residents, we now have to focus on developing a clear vision and strategy for the programme longer-term. We need to improve monitoring, cost benefit analysis, future growth opportunities and scalability whilst ensuring TECH becomes a core part of our social work practice and models of service delivery.

About the Role

As the Senior Commissioning Manager (SCM) for TECH, you will be responsible for leading our strategy development and setting our vision through a clear programme of engagement and coproduction with partners and stakeholders. You will facilitate and maintain appropriate governance and oversight, including establishing and leading meetings such as partnership boards, coproduction groups and programme leads meetings.

The SCM will also lead the commissioning, procurement and contracting for a strategic partnership(s) to deliver our TECH offer. You will be responsible for managing existing finances for the programme alongside developing a robust business case for growth and investment in a challenging financial landscape. Key to this will be monitoring and reporting on data and outcomes, increasing the visibility of the programme and ensuring Surrey is agile enough to maximise new opportunities in this sector as and when they present.

We are looking for a passionate individual who shares Surrey's vision for TECH, can seek the right partnerships and connections to deliver our strategy, and who can lead change within our own organisation and communities to maximise the opportunities technology can offer.

Our offer will include, but will not be limited to, the following areas:

• Transitions
• Unpaid carers
• LD&A and MH (Inc. Dementia)
• Physical Disabilities
• Older People
• Accommodation for all
• Health (and social care) Inc. Hospital Discharge and admission avoidance (reablement key)
• Maximising and maintaining independence: Public facing self-funder information and advice with potential for sold service longer term.

Shortlisting Criteria

To be considered for shortlisting for this position, your application will clearly evidence the following:

• A strong proven commissioning background and have a passion for improving outcomes for people
• The ability to confidently lead a joint strategic programme, working with partners and stakeholders, particularly health and district and borough colleagues, that focuses not on the technology available to us but on what individual outcomes could be enabled through technology
• An understanding of accommodation with care and support, technology in health and commercial commissioning approaches.

You will need the willingness and ability to travel around the county to meet the demands of this role.

The job advert closes at 23:59 on 29/04/2024 with interviews planned for 8th, 9th & 10th May 2024. We look forward to receiving your application and personal statement, please click on the apply online button below to submit.

Our Commitment

Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where:

• The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
• The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form

Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role. We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.