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Senior Commissioning Manager
| Posting date: | 17 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £68,774 to £75,583 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 May 2024 |
| Location: | Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 7AH |
| Company: | Surrey County Council |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | SCC/TP/288856/919_1715961797 |
Summary
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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