Commissioning and Service Development Manager (7424)

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Job Description

Permanent contract | full-time 37 hours per week | £48,610 to £52,594 per annum (Grade L) | Norwich (hybrid working)

Commissioning and Service Development Manager

In Children's Services, we are strengthening our approach for providing education for pupils outside of the registered school/college system within the unregulated Alternative Provision sector.

We are seeking a skilled and experienced individual who will lead and manage our arrangements for the procurement and commissioning of alternative education for both children of school age and post 16.

In this pivotal role, you will have responsibility for developing and delivering strong commissioning and governance processes with providers of unregulated Alternative Provision, principally from the private and commercial market. These include providers of remote or e-learning, 1:1 or small group tutoring services, private examination candidacy, vocational and therapeutic education packages.

You will work closely with other commissioners within Children's Services, as well as Operational Teams and Sufficiency colleagues in ensuring that those arrangements ensure strong governance and oversight of the unregulated market, achieve best value for money, improve outcomes for children and young people and ensure sufficiency of supply against profiled need.

You will also have a link role in working within the wider team in the delivery of key strategies as part of our Local First Inclusion programme supporting a more inclusive education system in Norfolk and in the strategic development of sufficiency planning for high needs SEND and Alternative Provision more widely.

You will also have a key role in ensuring that Norfolk's arrangements for Alternative Provision reflect the requirements within regulations, statutory guidance and the Area SEND Ofsted and CQC Inspection framework.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Andy Tovell (Assistant Director of Inclusion and Opportunity) at andy.tovell@norfolk.gov.uk.

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria we are looking for.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working - dependent on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
  • 'Norfolk Rewards' our employee discount programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)
  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants' pensions.
  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.
  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.

You can find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? please apply using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

Closing date for redeployees to receive priority consideration: 15 January 2025

Closing date: 22 January 2025