Changing Futures Senior Commissioning Manager
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Job Description
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £54,971 (Level one) rising to £58,261 (Level Four) per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG
We have an exciting opportunity for join our public health team, based within our Inclusion Health team. We are looking for an experienced senior commissioning manager looking to step into a new space and apply your skills for the benefit of those who are most excluded in society.
If you are passionate about making a difference to improve the health and wellbeing and life opportunities of people experiencing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage. This could be an opportunity for you!
What is Inclusion Health?
Led by a Helen, a Consultant in Public Health, the Inclusion Health team work on a wide range of public health agendas including: alcohol and drug use, mental health, suicide prevention, severe multiple disadvantage, homelessness, asylum seeker and refugee health, gambling, domestic abuse, violence reduction and financial wellbeing. It is a busy but important and rewarding area!
What is Severe Multiple Disadvantage?
Severe and multiple disadvantage is a priority in the Nottingham City Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
Severe Multiple Disadvantage (SMD) refers to people with three or more of the following issues: Homelessness or at risk of homelessness, problematic substance or alcohol use, poor mental health, offending or a victim of offending or domestic or sexual violence or abuse.
SMD can include other sources of disadvantage, for instance poor physical health, and for women, domestic and sexual abuse - and for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people, community isolation. Nottingham has the 8th highest prevalence of SMD in England - currently it is estimated that over 5,000 of the City's citizens experience SMD.
SMD mainly originates in adverse childhood experiences, approximately 85% of people facing SMD have experienced childhood trauma. This effects mental health which can lead to issues such as homelessness, substance use and offending. Services working with people facing SMD struggle to meet needs, because they are mainly set up to deal with single issues. The consequence for people facing SMD is their other issues prevent them successfully engaging with single issue treatment or support. Further information on the Changing Futures programme in Nottingham can be found here to https://www.changingfuturesnottingham.co.uk/
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.
About the Role
The Changing Futures Senior Commissioning Manager is a key leadership post within the Nottingham City Place-Based Partnership Changing Futures programme hosted within Nottingham City Council Public Health team.
The primary role of the Senior Commissioning Manager is to lead on and co-ordinate the development and delivery of all commissioning activity in the Changing Futures programme to improve the health and wellbeing and life opportunities of people experiencing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage. This will include the development of innovative and personalised approaches to joint commissioning across partner organisations that enable joined-up, flexible and person-centred care. The role will require cross-system working as well as expertise in commissioning, to push forward the innovations we want to develop and implement.
The Senior Commissioning Manager will build links across commissioning responsibilities relevant for people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage, such as with health and criminal justice commissioners. They will ensure added value from aligning Changing Futures activity alongside public health commissioning for other specialist SMD provision such as within substance use services, and connecting this with public health leadership on inclusion health, reducing inequalities and system change.
About You
The ideal candidate will:
• be an experienced commissioner to lead on all aspects of commissioning for the Changing Futures programme and develop and implement commissioning activity in agreement with the Changing Futures Programme Director and Changing Futures Delivery Board, in line with a workplan.
• work at a system level to influence local planning and the use of resources held across the wider system to deliver a more flexible, joined up, person-centred and sustainable approach to service delivery for people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage
• need to be committed to challenging inequality, understanding that inequality and experience of discrimination can have a big impact on a person's life and on how they engage with services and the support available.
• willing to listen in order to really hear and understand people's experiences, their views and ideas; with a real desire and willingness to learn and grow, with a commitment to your own personal development.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
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What to do next:
We are holding a virtual informal Information Session about the role on Thursday 17th April 2nd 11-12:00pm. The session will include information about the job role, the team and a chance to ask any questions you may have. Please sign up by emailing sheona.goddard@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact Tammy Coles, Public Health Principal by email at tammy.coles@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.
Closing Date: 24th April 2025
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: In Nottingham planned for 16th May 2025
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About Us
Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.
In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:
- 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years' service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
- Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
- Smart Working - to support your work life balance
- Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.
We particularly want to hear from you if you are from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community (LGBT) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we'd like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.
We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.