How you’ll make a difference
As a Commissioning Officer, you will be joining the Partnerships and Commissioning Service as part of the Relationship team. You will focus on the delivery of our county wide reablement service, in partnership with our internal Reablement Assessment team and external providers.
Being an ambitious and collaborative commissioner, you will oversee contracts and contract management, ensuring contracts are identified for recommissioning or renegotiation in a timely manner.
What you will be doing
- To support in shaping a cohesive and sustainable local market, you will build strong relationships with system partners, VCSE organisations, providers and communities.
- Driving innovation and continuous improvement, you will embed strengths-based and outcome-focused approaches.
- It will be your responsibility to identify breaches in contracts and work alongside your line manager to resolve, including collaboratively developing and monitoring action plans for improvement.
- It will be your responsibility to support the development of commissioning plans, strategies, protocols and service redesign.
- You will help the team to influence market shaping activities and drive positive change to our residents.
What we need from you
- We require you to have at least 3 years’ experience working within social care, it would be desirable if you had experience of commissioning and/or quality assurance.
- You will have proven experience in developing and maintaining strong relationships with a range of stakeholders to support innovation and continuous improvement.
- Given the elements of this role, you will be collaborative, transparent and inclusive in your working style with excellent interpersonal skills.
- It is essential that you have strong organisational, time management and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance competing priorities to meet deadlines.
What you need to know
- This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at home, and the office plus other locations.
Interviews will be held on Thursday 14th May 2026.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different
- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
- We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference and we continue to invest in technology to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability and celebrate innovation.
- As part of our benefits package you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of
- We’re working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life
- We’re investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.
We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Commissioning Officer – Job Description
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