Commissioning Manager - Families

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Job Description

About Us:

Delivering major service change and transformation to improve the lives of children, young people and families.

We want Cornwall to be a brilliant place to be a child and grow up. We want every child to have the best start in life and an equal chance of a bright future here in Cornwall. The voices and views of children and young people are at the heart of our plans. We will support our young people to get the most out of growing up in Cornwall and gain the skills to access new jobs in our changing economy.

Our People Commissioning Service Directorate is an all-age commissioning function which leads commissioning for two Directorates: Together for Families Directorate includes children's social care, early years, education and special educational needs, youth services, health visiting and school nursing. Care and Wellbeing Directorate includes adult social care, learning disability and mental health.

We manage a wide range of strategic relationships, partnerships and services, working collaboratively with partners across education, health and care and our ICB colleagues in developing and delivering creative and innovative commissioning solutions for people in Cornwall.

There is a challenge in children's social care and Special Education Needs and Disability in delivering sufficient fostering, residential and SEND placements which are of the right quality and in the right place for our children and young people. We are seeking a creative and experienced commissioner to find and deliver the right solutions to meet our needs. Cornwall has developed its 'Better Homes for Children, Young People and Families - Our Sufficiency Strategy' 1april 2024 to 31 March 2027.

The Role:

You'll be the commissioning manager in Cornwall primarily focussed on commissioning of accommodation and support as part of the Council's Better Homes Sufficiency Strategy, which includes fostering, residential and SEND education placements for children and young people. You will work with the Strategic Lead in driving forward innovation and improvement in commissioning placements, working collaboratively with partners, providers, education, health and care to develop and deliver placement sufficiency in Cornwall to meet the range of children's needs, using outcomes-based approaches and methodology, including multi-agency and all age-commissioning.

You will shape innovative approaches to solving local problems, all with the best interests of children and young people at heart. Working collaboratively as a key to your success. We believe that we achieve most when we work productively together, drawing on the diversity of our people, our experience, and our talents.

What you will need to succeed:

You'll be motivated by improving the outcomes of children and young people and have experience of commissioning resulting in improved service outcomes and efficiency. You will ideally have a good understanding of children's services and the local partner landscape. Being able to demonstrate expert knowledge in a relevant professional area and proven track record to develop and deliver strategic objectives and expected outcomes.

You'll also have business acumen and strong commercial instincts. Ready to manage ambitious programmes, you'll be a self-starter with the interpersonal skills to motivate, influence and inspire others at all levels.

In return, you can look forward to a package that includes a competitive salary, a high-quality pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays.

What you'll get in return:

Cornwall Council's ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a competitive salary.

• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions

• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.

• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here - Commissioning Manager Role Profile

For information, please contact Jeanette Toy on 07751 730193, or email jeanette.toy@cornwall.gov.uk

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as 'Application' on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here - The application process.

In your supporting statement please include the answers to the following questions:

1. The role holder will be responsible for supporting strategic leads and the head of service to develop and implement strategies, plan new policies and frameworks and delivery of all of the strategic activities for children and young people commissioning, particularly in regard to homes for young people, please demonstrate your experience of this.
2. The role holder will ensure that services are commissioned in a way that has a focus on best practice, reflective learning, drives good quality service provision and cost effectiveness. Please demonstrate your experience of this.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

About Us

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options.

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It's a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.