Director of Commissioning, Provider Services and Care Market Oversight
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Job Description
| Salary £102,757 - £111,550 Per annum | Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week | Adults Services Director Leadership Team |
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This role is not open to international sponsorship
Director of Commissioning, Provider Services & Care Market Oversight
Lancashire Adult Services
Salary: £102,757 - £111,550 (plus £5,300 car allowance)
Up to £9,823 relocation package available
Living Better Lives in Lancashire... Join the journey!
Lancashire Adult Services are committed to enabling our residents to live better lives through innovative, high-quality social care support. As a key leader within the Adult Services Director Leadership Team, you will drive our ambitious vision forward, ensuring excellence in service delivery and strategic oversight of both internally ran provider services and the wider external care market, within Lancashire.
The Director of Commissioning, Provider Services & Care Market Oversight will be pivotal in shaping and sustaining a robust care market. You will lead on Adult Social Care Commissioning and work closely with strategic partners, such as Health, District Councils and the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise sector. You will ensure the highest level of standards across our CQC registered and non-registered provisions. Leading care market shaping you will enhance both partnership working, deliver value for money with a view to improve sufficiency and sustainability of care for Lancashire residents.
You will also be key as a member of Lancashire County Council's extended executive leadership team, working closely elected members and informing the wider corporate agenda's.
This is the ideal role for an energetic and driven candidate with significant experience in leading and managing strategic commissioning, contract management, brokerage and operational provider services.
Our ideal candidate will be a great communicator at all levels and understand the importance of being visible in the services across Lancashire that you are accountable for. You will be a great networker who can build upon existing relationships, alongside generating new strategic partnerships.
Living Better Lives in Lancashire... Lead the vision!
You will be joining the team in Lancashire at an exciting time. We have recently launched a vision for the service, Living Better Lives in Lancashire and we have ambitious plans to drive forward innovative, meaningful and strengths-based practice that will make a difference to our communities.
We want the voice of people with lived experience embedded in our service offer and this will be a critical part of both the commissioning cycle and service delivery with our inhouse provider services.
We have started to remodel the way we undertake brokerage within Adult Services by disaggregating and creating a specialist function separate to operational Adult Social Care teams. Your specialist knowledge in this area will directly impact the success of its full implementation.
Our people add our greatest value - We're looking for someone who demonstrates inclusive values, who promotes diversity, both within their thinking, within the thinking of the teams they lead and in ensuring our workforce is representative of the communities we serve.
Great communication and resilience will bring all the above together - you'll need to be politically sensitive and have the ability to communicate with councillors, senior leaders and other influential stakeholders to ensure that the right information is provided to right people at the right time and in the right way. We will support you on every step of your journey and provide development opportunities to enable your career to grow from strength to strength.
Reasons to Join Us...
We believe that everyone should have a great work-life balance and offer up to 32 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays, 2 additional statutory days over the Christmas period plus a further 20 days leave that can be purchased. We have a generous Local Authority Pension Scheme with shared contribution AVC's available, and a benefits platform which has everything from discounts on shopping and travel. We also provide long service awards, cycle to work schemes, eye tests plus much more.
We also embrace diversity, part of which is having a range of support groups available for all our team with specific networks for people of colour, those with a disability and those from the LGBTQI+ community. We want our people to be able to be their best, authentic self, and value each other's differences, so we'll support this at every opportunity.
We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.
Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting stagement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.
This is an essential car user post, therefore access to your own vehicle is essential. However, we may consider applications from individuals unable to drive due to a disability.
To Apply
If you would like to contact us for an initial informal and confidential chat with Elaina Quesada (Deputy Executive Director of Adult Services), then please contact Angela Kerr (PA) on 01772 534132 or Angela.Kerr@lancashire.gov.uk to arrange a call.
Closing Date: Sunday 22nd September 2024 23:59. Interviews: 9th October 2024
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