Assistant Director Commissioning and Partnerships

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Assistant Director - Commissioning and Partnerships (Adult Care and Wellbeing)
Location: Howden House / Town Hall, Sheffield
Contract Type: 12-month fixed-term (initially)

Are you a strategic leader with a passion for improving outcomes in adult social care? Do you thrive in complex systems and value partnership working? If so, we invite you to apply for the role of Assistant Director - Commissioning and Partnerships within Sheffield's Adult Care and Wellbeing Directorate.
About the Role
This is a pivotal leadership role at a time of transformation. You will lead a diverse portfolio of commissioning functions across adult social care, including mental health, ageing well, direct payments, carers, as well as ensuring effective market oversight and brokerage functions.

The role is being recruited on a 12-month fixed term contract

You will be responsible for:

• Leading strategic commissioning across adult care and wellbeing services.
• Driving innovation and improvement in service delivery and outcomes.
• Managing key partnerships with health, voluntary sector, and community stakeholders.
• Supporting the implementation of the Council's vision for independence, choice, and recovery in adult care .

About You
We are looking for a values-driven leader who:

• Has significant experience in commissioning and partnership working at a senior level.
• Understands the challenges and opportunities in adult social care.
• Can lead teams through change with clarity and compassion.
• Brings a strong track record of delivering outcomes through collaboration and co-production.

Why Join Us?
You'll be joining a passionate and committed leadership team at a time of real opportunity. This role offers the chance to shape the future of commissioning in Sheffield, influence system-wide transformation, and make a tangible difference to people's lives.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.