Commissioning Officer
| Posting date: | 18 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £43,693 to £47,754 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 July 2025 |
| Location: | Staffordshire Place 1 Tipping Street Stafford, ST16 2DH |
| Company: | Staffordshire County Council |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | staffscc/TP/13802/3429 |
Summary
Our purpose is to improve the wellbeing of children and young people within Staffordshire, so that every child has the opportunity to be safe, happy and healthy, part of a strong community and achieves their potential.
An opportunity has arisen for a Commissioning Officer to join the friendly, hardworking and committed Prevention and Wellbeing Commissioning Team, within the Children and Families Directorate.
You will be contributing to an exciting new area of work to develop and embed a whole system approach to prevention, and working to increase the proportion of children and young people experiencing good mental health and emotional wellbeing.
This is a great opportunity for someone who is keen to develop their knowledge of children and young people’s emotional health and wellbeing, can understand and interpret data and how this is used to inform programme development and delivery.
This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of being available to work from the office / attend face to face meetings as required.
This position is fixed term from August 2025 to 31 March 2026, with the potential to extend to 31 March 2027.
Internal applicants: if you plan to apply for this role on a secondment basis please make sure you have followed the process here for gaining approval from your current line manager. If you are offered the role and you do not have agreement this will cause significant delays to the process
Main ResponsibilitiesYou will be:
- Collaborating with a wide range of partners to progress the local children and young people’s mental health system improvement programme of work, to improve emotional health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people.
- Developing and embedding a whole systems approach to prevention, so that we are reducing the chances of problems arising in the first place, prevent problems from getting worse and reduce demand for statutory and acute services.
- Focus on tackling disparities in wellbeing outcomes for our most vulnerable children and young people.
This post will also include collaborative work to enhance the support that is available to meet the emotional wellbeing needs of children and young people, through a variety of commissioning activities.
The Ideal CandidateYou'll:
- be passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people
- be well organised and proactive
- have great communication skills
- be able to work with a broad range of stakeholders including children, young people and their parents / carers.
Ideally but not essential, you'll also have one of the below
- experience in commissioning, with a strong understanding of commissioning processes and the ability to manage and lead commissioning projects.
- knowledge about the emotional health and wellbeing landscape and the challenges faced by children and young people who may be at greater risk of experiencing poor outcomes because of factors in their lives such as being care experienced, living with SEND.
We are very much looking forward to a new colleague joining the team!
Interviews will take place week on Wednesday 6 August 2025
We’re a supportive team and there are always opportunities to learn and develop. Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences and qualifications so confider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact: Louise Andrews Gee, Commissioning Manager at louise.andrews-gee@staffordshire.gov.uk
Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.
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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