Commissioning Officer – Property Services

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Interim Commissioning Officer – Property Services
Job Ref: Staffordshire 5248627
Pay Rate: £20.98 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 5-6 months
City: Stafford, Staffordshire
Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role
This job plays a key role within the wider Public Health and Prevention, Adult Social Work and Safeguarding and Care Commissioning teams.
The Commissioning Officer will be required to manage short- and long-term commissioning arrangements and will be required to work with a wide variety of stakeholders and partners in supporting the County Council.
Key Responsibilities:
Drawing up service specifications, and developing clear quality standards and desired outcomes for services, including those in multi-agency environments, by liaising with SCC colleagues, stakeholders, partner organisations, service users and carers.
To undertake the identification of opportunities for commissioning of a defined sub area of care and support/public health or prevention services.
Contributing to reports in order to support the decisions of relevant committees and boards ensuring compliance and coherence with overall service objectives.
Delivering agreed aspects of the commissioning cycle to support all aspects of programme delivery and meet the agreed needs.
To assist in the monitoring of financial information and resource allocation.
Working with the Commercial team to agree contractual aims and select preferred providers to deliver intended outcome
Providing advice, guidance and practical assistance to service providers and users.
Overseeing and supporting the work of less experienced staff, and support the line manager in their development.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Qualifications:
Educated to degree/HND standard or possessing an equivalent professional qualification or equivalent by experience.
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Demonstrable experience and understanding of commissioning services.
An understanding of the financial constraints facing the service areas.
Experience in negotiating service delivery requirements.
Experience of contract setting processes.
Able to demonstrate an ability to use resources flexibly and creatively within a contractual framework.
Experience of resource management through coaching or motivation of staff and colleagues.
Good organizational skills and the ability to work under pressure.
Excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills at all levels, and with stakeholders.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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Job Ref: Staffordshire 5248627
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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