Commissioning & Quality Assurance Officer

Posting date:	25 February 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	27 March 2026
Location:	Bury, BL9 0EJ
Company:	inploi
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	75788931

Summary

Quality Assurance and Commissioning Officer

Community Commissioning (Adults)

About the role

Are you passionate about supporting people to have better lives, connected to their communities?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Commissioning and Quality Assurance Officer to join our Community Commissioning Team within the Department for Health and Adult Care.

We are committed to:

Reduce the number of people waiting for a social work needs assessment.
Increase the number of peoples safeguarding outcomes partially or fully met.
Increase the number of people leaving intermediate care services independently.
Increase the number of people with a learning disability who are provided with the opportunity to live more independently.
Increase the number of people accessing care and support information and advice that promotes people’s wellbeing and independence.
Increase the number of people with lived experience who provide feedback.
Increase the number of unpaid carers identified.

Duties:

You will be responsible for managing a portfolio of Providers that includes Residential and Nursing Homes, Supported Living Providers, Care at Home, Extra Care and Local Charities. You will build strong working relationships with your care providers, assessing the quality of their service and supporting the improvement and development of provision in Bury. Monitoring contracts, resolving complaints and driving the development of the Bury Adult Social Care Market to meet the needs of the population now, and in the future. The work you will do is incredibly varied: you will be visiting Supported Living settings, Residential Care homes, Care at Home providers, Extra Care settings working alongside social workers and negotiating with Providers, it all comes back to improving services and offering the best care to continue a good quality of life.

About you:

You will have excellent communication and organisational skills and be used to working within and across teams. You will also have experience of building and maintaining relationships with a wide range of people including people using our services, their relatives, carers, social workers, and care providers. You will be experienced in using your own initiative and contributing ideas which will improve services, you will be able to manage multiple pieces of work and competing priorities at any one time.

If you feel you can use your experience to make a real difference, we would love to hear from you! We have lots of development and learning opportunities available, including Apprenticeships.
Normal hours of work are 37 hours per week based around the usual business working week. Dependent on service requirements, you may be required to work on a rota basis.

About Bury
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare or children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.

As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way

Benefits of working for Bury Council
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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.
We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.

Next steps

For an informal chat regarding the role please contact Deb Yates (d.yates@bury.gov.uk) Strategic Commissioning Lead

Interviews will be held on Tuesday 24th March

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