The Commissioning Manager is part of the Strategic Commissioning & Investment Team within Fairer Together.

The post-holder will be responsible for commissioning services to cover one or more of the following client groups and service types:

• Age Well: Older Adults, Domiciliary Care & Dementia and Accommodation based pathways & Last Years of Life
• Live Well: Disabilities and Learning Disabilities
• Live Well: Mental Health
• Live Well: Supported Housing and Homelessness

They will contribute to robust and regular needs assessment to establish a full understanding of current and future local needs and requirements and commission services that optimise health and wellbeing outcomes for service users and provide good value for money.

They will apply a project management approach and structure to the delivery of their commissioning work.

They will contribute to the forging of excellent joint working relations between agencies including Clinical Commissioners, Public Health specialist staff, service users and carers and providers from the private, voluntary and community sectors to commission high quality services that improve health and well-being outcomes for adults.

This is a generic job description and may change to reflect the detail of operational policy and working arrangements.

Key responsibilities

Commissioning

• To work closely with Procurement, Commissioning Officers, Contract Officers and service users and carers in the commissioning, procurement and monitoring of
• To devise specifications for commissioned services ensuring that they meet the needs of the borough and the
• To ensure that where commissioned services are seen to be failing, timely interventions are made to avert adverse consequences through effective contract
• To be an active member of the Commissioning Team and to support the section leadership in the management of the service.
• To escalate issues to Senior Commissioning Managers in thorough and timely