Commissioning Lead - Chichester

Job Title: Commissioning Lead
Location: Chichester
Salary / Pay Rate: £28 P/H (Umbrella)
Job Type: Adult Services and Health
The Role
As a Commissioning Lead, you will be part of a team that focuses on ensuring that social care solutions are available across the county for residents of West Sussex. You will take the lead on set commissioning work streams and deal with complex issues escalated by seniors officers. The role will focus on enabling the Council to implement its strategic intentions and meeting current need and future demand, and ensuring West Sussex has a care market providing a range of high-quality services and solutions for the residents of West Sussex. You will do this through delivering across the commissioning cycle. The key responsibility of this role will be to implement commissioning plans to improve quality and outcomes for individuals, achieve value for money and ensure the best use of resources. You will build positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and partners. You will lead on strategic & operational co-production from people with lived experience. You will support identification of needs and gaps in local provision, identify options for, and support the implementation of solutions, and review the outcomes and performance. The role will involve presenting to a range of people and organisations and producing reports and information to senior managers to support decision making. It will also involve long periods of mental demands, a focus on projects and programmes with a long timeframe and a requirement to deliver to time and budget.
The Candidate

• You will need to be able to travel independently across the county to meet with providers and partners as required.
• Social care commissioning experience, ie. has led on a tender, ideally a care homes tender
• Experience of working collaboratively, building effective relationships with a range of stakeholders
• Effective communication skills, including the ability to challenge and have difficult conversations.
• Have a good understanding of the adult social care market, including associated legislation (such as the Care Act 2014 and the Health and Care Act 2022).

Benefits
Working arrangements - Chichester weekly on Weds, but can flexible to full homeworking , this role can be completed over 3 - 4 days per week
How to apply
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