Cambs Cuunty Council require an Interim Commissioning Service Director for a minimum period of 3 months to be based out of Huntingdon Cambs

Taking a leadership role and working in close partnership across the Health and Social Care System, this post incorporates responsibilities relating to quality and commissioning of social care and people services for children, young people, individual adults and their families and carers. It is responsible for commissioning effective, efficient and safe services that represent best value. Social Care is broadly defined in this instance as the care, protection, support, welfare and advocacy of vulnerable or dependent people, individually or in groups.

To achieve these aims, the Service Director will lead on the commissioning of the following services:

• Adult services, including Older People, Carers, Sensory Impairment, Learning Disabilities, Autism and Mental Health.
• Children’s services, including services for children with complex and Special Education needs, children requiring social care support, children in care and children at risk in terms of child protection
• Working with public health on Health and Wellbeing services, Healthy Child Programme, School Nursing, Health Visiting
• Working with ICS partners on development of mental health and other community and acute services
• Early Help services and integrated services for children, young people and adults that are either delivered and managed by the Council or by the NHS as a delegated arrangement.

To be a full participating member across both Children’s and Adults Departmental Management Teams (DMTs) driving strategy and performance and identifying and championing the delivery of both Adults and Childrens services vision and strategy with system partners, community representatives, DMT colleagues and all employees.

Job Knowledge

• Qualified to Post Degree level
• Thorough understanding of the Commissioning & processes (Commissioning Academy)
• Thorough understanding of legislation and impact
• Thorough commercial and financial understanding of Commissioning, market management and development  
• Strong understanding of the Health system and Independent provider requirements
• Strong financial and management accounting understanding
• Thorough understanding of the principal responsibilities and key challenges facing local government in the effective commissioning and delivery of people services and the appropriate role to be played by the providers of services other than local authorities.
• Thorough understanding of the role of communities in local democracy, and of the tools and powers
• Good knowledge of best practice methodologies, local, regional and national policy developments and stakeholder knowledge to enable effective collaboration and commissioning arrangements.
• Strong appreciation of the varying needs of the diverse communities we serve.

Skills

• The ability to relate to and win the confidence, trust and respect of Members, colleagues, partners and the wider community.

• Excellent leadership skills which encourage commitment from others and promote a positive, motivated, organisational culture.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate complex information both orally and in writing in a clear, articulate and balanced way to a variety of audiences.
• Excellent commercial and negotiation skills and an ability to influence outcomes through reasoning, persuasion and tact.
• Strategic and local thinker and decision-maker, able to provide practical and creative solutions to the management of partnership, corporate and directorate issues.
• High level of analytical abilities, able to assimilate and analyse information quickly, identifying issues, priorities and solutions and using effective models, techniques and resources to resolve issues.
• Strong financial and budgetary awareness with the ability to manage finance and wider resources within a strong performance management culture.
• Commitment to using information technology to improve service delivery and reduce costs.
• Demonstrable continuous development and improvement of own leadership and professional practice.