Commissioning Officer
| Posting date: | 19 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £42,403 to £46,464 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 May 2024 |
| Location: | Stafford, ST16 2LP |
| Company: | Staffordshire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | staffscc/TP/24971/1931 |
Summary
Help Staffordshire achieve our ambition of good health and wellbeing for all.
We’ve got a vision at Staffordshire – we want our county to be ambitious, innovative and sustainable, a place where everyone has the opportunity to prosper, be healthy and be happy.
Main ResponsibilitiesThis is an amazing opportunity to be part of our exciting programmes of work across Staffordshire.
As a Commissioning Officer you will support the Commissioning Manager in shaping and embedding public health programmes across Staffordshire. Working collaboratively with council colleagues, a wide range of partners and local communities to understand health inequalities, co-ordinate and deliver local plans and capture outcomes.
You will be passionate about promoting improvements in public health and reducing inequity and you will promote co-production to ensure the voice of the person is recognised.
There are 2 x Commissioning Officer posts available:
Post 1 - Healthy Systems and Environments
Post 2 - Supportive Communities.
You will also work across the wider public health team and health and care.
Post 1 Healthy Systems and Environments
This role will support the Commissioning Manager in shaping a new approach to ensure Staffordshire has the right conditions and environments to enable people to live happy and healthy lives. Working collaboratively with public health colleagues and partner organisations you will help to embed and drive the Better Health Staffordshire (BHS) programme of work (a whole systems approach to enabling healthy weight). The role will also support programmes of work that promote and enable healthy weight environments, via levers such as planning policy. The two areas of work will be closely aligned and interdependent.
Post 2 Supportive Communities
The Supportive Communities Programme works to enable people to remain healthy and independent for longer, with support from their family, friends and local community. In this role you will work collaboratively with local communities, voluntary sector organisations, the health and care workforce and wider partners to expand and localise the Supportive Communities programme offer across the County.
The Ideal Candidate
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is keen to develop their knowledge of public health, can understand and interpret data and how this is used to inform programme development and delivery.
We are looking for someone who has the below skills:
- Collaboration - These are roles where you’ll be working with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders, so you’ll have experience of working with partnerships with good communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong working relationships and deliver strategic planning interventions.
- Organisation - You will also be a confident and competent organiser with excellent project management skills, contributing to the development of business cases and informal/formal reports and with the ability to work under pressure.
- Passionate - You will be passionate about improving public health and reducing health inequalities and be committed to community engagement and coproduction.
- Committed - You will also be able to work effectively as part of the team to deliver our objectives and outcomes, with a high level of personal drive and integrity, and committed to proactively solving problems and developing innovative solutions to improve outcomes.
If you’d like to discuss the role in more detail, we’d love to hear from you, please contact:
Supportive Communities:
Peta Curno, Senior Commissioning Manager
Email: Peta.Curno@staffordshire.gov.uk
Tel: 01785 277257
Mobile: 07816 100082
Vicky Rowley, Commissioning Manager
Email: Vicky.rowley@staffordshire.gov.uk
Tel: 01785 895123
Mobile: 07583 828 840
Healthy Systems and Environments
Rochelle Edwards, Commissioning Manager
Email: rochelle.edwards@staffordshire.gov.uk
Mobile: 07813 722998
About Staffordshire County CouncilWe are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
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