Commissioning Manager

Yate, England, United Kingdom

3/27/2025

How You'll Make a Difference

As a Commissioning Manager, you will make a difference by using your expertise in building strong partnerships with social care, housing, public health, VCSE and provider organisations to meet our strategic commitments. You will work collaboratively to support the development of the care provider market in South Gloucestershire to deliver department-wide commissioning priorities.

Commissioning Areas

• Brokerage
• Quality Assurance
• Carers Commissioning
• Care home
• Learning Difficulties and Mental Health
• Direct payments
  
  

What You Will Be Doing

• Using your experience and knowledge in providing sound expertise, advice and information to a range of customers both internal and external, to delivery high quality, value for money and efficient services.
• Supporting the Service Manager, you will ensure all emerging legislation, guidance, best practice and policy agendas locally and nationally are proactively identified and their relevance and impact developed accordingly.
• You will support the team in responding to different work pressures including picking up new and different areas of work as necessary.
• The service may require you to manage a small team of commissioning officers or assistant commissioning officers to support your work.
  
  

What We Need From You

• You will have a degree or professional qualification in social care, health care, public health, housing or business studies or other relevant subject or comparable experience gained in the workplace.
• It is essential that you have experience at a senior level of working in a commissioning role in a social care, housing, health or public health environment, which includes the knowledge of relevant legislation, including Care Act market shaping responsibilities and EU procurement rules.
• We require you to have experience of developing and delivering creative and innovative commissioning strategies / business plans, including needs assessment and market analysis preferably related to social care, health, public health and housing services and of contract management and performance appraisal.
• You must understand children’s and adult social care, housing, health and public health and their underpinning values, standards and legislative framework, including an understanding of the personalisation agenda.
  
  

What You Need To Know

• This is a limited term contract, ending 31 March 2026.
• We are also offering this as an internal secondment opportunity, you should first seek your line managers permission before applying.
• This is part-time role, working 30 hours per week.
• Salaries are pro-rated to hours worked.
• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at home, and the office plus other locations, for up to 2/3 days per week, and potentially more frequently during initial induction and orientation.
  
  

Interviews anticipated for 25th April 2025.

How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different

• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance - whatever that means for them.
• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
  
  

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
• We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
• We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.  
  
  

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

To view the full job description, please click this link: Commissioning Manager - Job description .