Senior Commissioning Manager

With the ability to give detailed expert, technical and management advice? This fixed term/ secondment opportunity could be perfect for you?

The Opportunity

Salary: £61,147 to £64,596 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week
Contract type: 1-year Fixed term or Secondment opportunity
Location: County Hall, Chichester and working from home (Hybrid)
Interview date: w/c 27 May 2024
As the Senior Commissioning Manager, you will work within the Public Health commissioning team which provides a countywide, community focussed function, meeting the agreed strategic outcomes and priorities, and meeting political, statutory, performance and financial measures through the effective management of the commissioning resource of the Public Health Grant and other national grants.
Reporting to the Head of Commissioning - Public Health, you will manage a range of contracts and service level agreements that are evidence based to achieve good public health outcomes. You will work closely with Public Health consultants and other directorates within the council, and with relevant NHS Sussex commissioning leads.
You will provide professional leadership to a team commissioning a range of services addressing substance misuse in West Sussex. In addition, you will represent WSCC Public Health in regional and national meetings relating to substance misuse. You will focus on specific areas but will be expected to use your broad commissioning skills and expertise to contribute flexibly as required.
This role is employed by WSCC Public Health but leads commissioning of substance misuse services across the Combatting Drugs Partnership. The Partnership is made up of the most senior managers from the local authority, NHS, districts and boroughs and Police and Probation Services.

What are we looking for?

• Excellent stakeholder management, you will need to work closely with the relevant NHS Commissioners, Councillors, senior leaders and partners, and develop strategic relationships with a range of stakeholders including GPs, providers (hospital trusts, private sector, voluntary sector), and local developments at a Sussex wide level.

• You will need to have a substantial understanding of the Health and Social Care system in West Sussex and methodologies for analysing trends and future requirements.

• You will need to understand the full commissioning cycle and demonstrate experience of seeing through change processes in a complex multi-agency environment.

• Sound knowledge of Substance Misuse services.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CAFHE05143.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Fiona Mackison (Head of Commissioning - Public Health) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

Internal candidates wishing to apply for this role will be considered for a secondment position. Please can you therefore discuss and agree this with your manager before applying for this position.

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.