As Team Manager for Children’s Joint Commissioning, you will lead a team responsible for driving integrated, high impact services for children and young people, families and carers. This post leads and directs the work of the Children’s Joint Commissioning Team, ensuring the delivery of City Council and health partner objectives. The role has a strong focus on commissioning services that span both local authority and health systems, including mental health, therapies, respite care, medical assessments, and provision for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). As part of the Children’s Services leadership team, you will drive forward integrated commissioning approaches, ensuring services are high-quality, responsive, and centred around the needs of children and families. You will play a critical role in shaping commissioning strategies, influencing service development, and ensuring the voices of children and young people, parents and carers are embedded in service design and delivery. This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Qualifications
- Strong experience in children’s joint commissioning across health and social care and education services.
- Experience in leading commissioning for areas such as children’s mental health, neurodivergent, short breaks and SEND provision.
- Confidence working with key partners such as the ICB, Public Health, providers and Adult Commissioning.
- Capability to drive strategic planning, service development, quality assurance and market shaping.
- Strong negotiation skills with experience integrating services and delivering cross‑agency programmes through collaborative working.
- Analytical and a collaborative leader who can deliver high‑quality, joined‑up services for children and young people.
- Experience of managing staff, budgets and leading complex commissioning or procurement processes involving partner organisations.
- Confidence in leading change, influencing across organisations, and delivering improved outcomes for children and young people.
In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.
Values
- Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
- Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
- Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
- Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
- Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
- Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long‑term health condition
We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, accepting of all and free from discrimination and bias. Join us at Coventry City Council as we shape a brighter future for the city’s children, young people and families!
We offer a rewards and benefits package. For more information, visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies
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