Senior Commissioning Manager

This role has a starting salary of £68,774 per annum based on a 36-hour working week.

This is a 24-month fixed term contract or secondment opportunity.
Our team is based at Fairmount House in Leatherhead but work from offices across Surrey and travel across Surrey to establish relationships with our providers. We adopt a hybrid approach with the expectation that all staff are in SCC offices 40% of their working week.
We are excited to be recruiting a Senior Commissioning Manager to join our fantastic Disabilities and Direct Payments Team. In this role you will focus on ensuring support for people in their everyday lives is asset based and personalised.
Rewards and benefits

26 days' holiday, pro-rated for part time staff

Annual leave allowance

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
The Disabilities and Direct Payments Team is led by the Head of Commissioning (Disabilities) who reports into the Director of Integrated Commissioning in the Adults, Wellbeing and Health Partnerships Directorate.
Three highlights of working within our team are:

We work to a vision whereby individuals can live 'gloriously ordinary lives', following their ambitions and aspirations

We are a dynamic team, committed to continuous improvement through working in partnership across the council, with our NHS colleagues and those in the voluntary, community and faith sector, and learning from the evidence-base and best practice

We are committed to ensuring individuals' insight and ambition shapes our plans through co-production and engagement

About the role
The Senior Commissioning Manager - Everyday Living, will work to develop Surrey's offer for all adults, regardless of primary need. Funded as part of a Transformation Programme, the Senior Commissioning Manager will take lead responsibility for:

Reviewing the current offer to identify how best to ensure opportunities are asset based, personalised and outcomes focused, facilitating independence and progression, choice and control

Designing appropriate commissioning strategies to support cost effectiveness, quality assurance, market stability and growth

Shortlisting criteria
The full set are outlined in the attached job description, but to be considered for shortlisting for this position, your CV and personal statement will clearly evidence the following:

Experience of putting in place systems that support high quality delivery of services

Substantial professional commissioning, contracting and management experience working in the context of public service delivery in the statutory or voluntary sector

Undergraduate degree or equivalent with a relevant social work, other associated health care or commissioning qualification

Strong written and oral communication and interpersonal skills with high level negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to build effective relationships with colleagues and a range of partners

Contact us
Please contact us for any questions relating to the role. This could be to discuss flexible working requests, transferable skills or any barriers to employment. For an informal discussion please contact Anna Waterman by telephone on 07977510492.
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 02/06/2024 with interviews to follow.
We look forward to receiving your application, 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.