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Client
Local Authority in Barking
Job Title
Lead Commissioner (Early Intervention & Prevention)
Pay Rate
£500+ DAILY UMBRELLA
Hours
36 Hours a week(Mon-Fri)9AM-5PM
Duration
Initial 3 month Contract
Location
Hybrid working-2-3 days a week office based in Barking Town Hall
Description
The role
This role will be primarily focussed on supporting commissioning within Barking & Dagenham's Neighbourhoods Programme. The programme is about services, agencies and communities working together to ensure residents get the information advice and help they need, when and where they need it within their local area.
The Neighbourhoods Commissioning Lead will play a key role in the successful delivery of the Programme.
The post holder will work as a key member of the Programme Team with the Programme Manager, Head of Commissioning & management team and alongside Public Health Leads, other senior officers, members, and cross sector partners to design, develop & commission community-Led prevention initiatives across the borough.
Key responsibilities:
In this role you will support the design, commissioning and mobilisation of a wide range of new neighbourhood focused initiatives including. Community-led Healthy Weight Support; Neighbourhood Networks development; an independence support pathway for people with LD & Autism; Information Advice & Advocacy services; Physical Inactivity Place Partnership development; Community Connect Programme; Community Health & Wellbeing Pop-ups; mobility support, metal health initiatives etc.
You will also support the development & building of new Community-Led Commissioning & Procurement structures that will bring together lead VCFS organisations, community representatives and LBBD commissioning & procurement officers to work together on the design, commissioning, procurement & setting up of community-led support services.
You will ensure commissioned services are contract managed robustly, and challenged where necessary, working closely with operational & procurement colleagues to ensure that community projects and services are delivering effective preventative support for our residents.
You will also be expected to work with a wide range of stakeholders and partners - working with community groups and organisations on consensus-building approaches that support community-led commissioning - identifying localised gaps in support and charting courses of action to harness community resources & strengths to fill those gaps & improve outcomes for residents.
The role requires you to analyse data and review and collate information to inform decisionsusing the best data, evidence and intelligence to underpin commissioning decision making, meaningfully evaluating our approaches and reviewing service outcomes and facilitating new ways of thinking & working to achieve agreed objectives.
Skills and experience
The Commissioning Manager should have:
Extensive experience of joint and multi-agency commissioning across local government, the Nationa Helath Service and non-statutory partners that support prevention & achieve improved health and wellbeing outcomes for residents - this is a key requirement
An ability to work collaboratively, creatively and effectively with all partners from a range of backgrounds, with direct experience of using participatory planning processes and working in partnership with National Health Service, VCFS organisations and local communities to develop significant commissioning projects.
Strong skills in review, analysis, facilitation, and design/development and an ability to collate ideas into proposal reports including analysis of options, benefits, timeframes, resources required, approach & outcomes and be able to translate these proposals into delivery, working with partners to implement agreed actions.
Good provider contract & performance management skills and experience of identifying, reporting & managing risks
Excellent communication skills with strong verbal and concise writing abilities and the ability to tailor communications to different audiences and present reports to senior decision makers.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team to achieve tight deadlines
Ability to provide support and challenge in a complex environment.
Excellent Leadership skills and an ability to foster changes to ways of working that will better enable the delivery of the Neighbourhoods programme
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