Contracts and Commissioning Officer – Adult Social Care
37 hours per week
Office attendance is required minimum 2 days a week for full time staff. This arrangement remains flexible, subject to business needs.
Contract: Secondment/fixed term opportunity for up to 2 years due to funding
Your new role
The Contracts & Commissioning Team plays a key role in achieving outcomes by ensuring high-quality, sustainable services through effective commissioning and contract management.
This role will support the development, implementation, and monitoring of contracts for externally commissioned ASC services. Working closely with commissioners, providers, and senior managers, you will help ensure effective procurement processes, improve quality, support market development, market oversight and manage performance.
It will involve managing a diverse portfolio of Adult Social Care contracts such as residential, nursing, supported living and community-based services, alongside supporting tendering and procurement activities in line with legislation and council procedures.
Who is the person summary
With substantial proven experience within a contract management, procurement, commissioning role or similar, you will have experience or a strong understanding of managing a portfolio of contracts across adult social care. You will hold a relevant degree such as CIPS or have equivalent experience. With strong leadership skills and the ability to work under pressure you will have experience of managing stakeholders, leading projects and collaborative working with different stakeholders. You will be able to encourage innovation, achieve results and demonstrate an awareness of the demands and understand the sensitivities of working in the public sector.
We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
We are not able to offer sponsorship for this position.
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