Directorate: Social Care Health Integration and Wellbeing

Section: Integrated Commissioning and partnerships

Grade: Level 12

Actual Salary: £40,478 - £43,516

Hours: 37

This advert is open to Internal and External applicants.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council Children’s Commissioning team are looking for a senior commissioning and contract officer x 2 to join their children’s commissioning team.

To develop commissioning and contract standards and frameworks, manage and implement a range of commissioning strategies, policies and plans on specific service areas to ensure best commissioning practice is applied across the category.

Key Duties / Responsibilities

To lead the development of team practice to manage and implement a range of commissioning strategies, policies and plans on specific service areas to ensure best commissioning practice, behaviours and competencies are applied and deliver the agreed outcomes and targets across the full commissioning cycle:

- Robust needs assessment

– Systemic coproduced service review and redesign

- Benefits realisation, business cases, performance management and evaluation

- Commercialisation and routes to market, including procurement

- Contract/SLA specification and management

- Service/Provider stability and improvement

For an informal chat about this role please call Kelly Mountford - 01782 235426

Please note that if an employee who is currently at risk of redundancy within the organisation applies for this vacancy their application will receive priority.  If this happens you will be advised accordingly.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Stoke-on-Trent City Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this – we therefore encourage applications from all sections of our community. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed together.

 To Apply - please visit our website https://webrecruitment.stoke.gov.uk/wrl/ If you have any queries or want an application form in another format, please email recruitment@stoke.gov.uk or call us on 01782 238189.