Job Introduction
Role Purpose
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of vulnerable adults? Do you have a knack for developing and delivering high-quality services that improve health and wellbeing? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! Join our dynamic team as a Commissioning Officer for Homecare and Reablement and play a crucial role in shaping the future of adult social care. In this role, you will support the development and implementation of innovative commissioning strategies, work closely with stakeholders, and ensure that our services meet the highest standards of quality and efficiency. If you are ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role that makes a real impact, we want to hear from you!
This role is fixed term for 2 years.
Main Responsibilities
- Support the development and delivery of a strategy and procurement plan for the provision of home care
- Conduct demand and needs analyses of home care and reablement provision
- Support and research the development of a model for home care and other service utilisation
- Review emerging national and international models of home care, which include fully integrated health and care teams to support locality population health and wellbeing
- Participate in an audit/review of home care packages
- Support the implementation of short to medium term changes to delay and reduce people’s care needs, home care activity and costs
- Research best practice models for reablement and intermediate care
- Support the transformation and performance improvement of reablement services
- Utilise the market to find solutions to ongoing service issues including workforce development, skills and training, capacity for difficult to source localities, small and highly complex packages
- Engage with adult social care colleagues and develop a co-production plan to move towards a culture of valued partnership with our providers, including meeting the specialist needs of people
The Ideal Candidate
- High level of understanding of the Adult Social Care sector and the Social Care Transformation agenda.
- Knowledge of partnership working and developing services with partner
- Understanding of legislation and changes that inform and shape the way in which commissioned contracts are developed and monitored with the Adult Social Care service area.
- Experience of using procurement and contracting procedures (including legal and regulatory requirements and the risks of non-compliance), and of developing standard specifications and contract documentation.
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work in partnership. A flexible, adaptable approach to communication and engagement with a range of people and situations.
- Ability to lead, plan and organise own workload
- Ability to prioritise workload with competing demands and manage activities in order to deliver commissioning projects and objectives
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Emma Senior, Strategic Commissioning Manager for Prevention and Wellbeing, or Hannah Wilson, Strategic Commissioning Manger – Long Term Conditions:
emma.senior@bcpcouncil.gov.uk hannah.wilson@bcpcouncil.gov.uk
01202 127023 01202 127217
About BCP Council
BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.
Our Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package to colleagues. Find out more on our website
As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation and colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. This is expected to be in place in 2024 or early 2025.
