Senior Commissioning Officer

Seven Resourcing is working with Solihull Council to recruit a Senior Commissioning Officer for their Planning & Commissioning Services.

£26.42 per hour.

Hybrid Working – 1 day a week in the office

6 month position

Flexible hours available – Full time hours 30 to 37- this can be over 4 or 5 days.

Job Description

Tasks required which could be completed by a Band F senior commissioning officer:

·      To lead on reviewing and issuing the terms and conditions for the spot contracts for a variety of adult social care services (e.g. care at home, residential care) with the outcome to be that all spot providers (estimated 250) have a signed contract in place

·      To lead multistakeholder team approach including commissioning, operations, legal and procurement to review and agree the 8 contract and specification templates to be used to send out to providers.

·      To make updates to the contract and specifications which incorporate the feedback from the multistakeholder team.

·      To work with a band D role to ensure the new contracts are sent out to appropriate contacts within current providers and signed and returned

·      To work with a band D role to ensure the new contracts sent out are signed by the correct company

·      To apply any identified updates from the review to the additional 70+ contracts that were awarded through a procurement process. This could require additional contract variations to ensure tendered contracts were consistent with the updated spot contracts in their terms and specifications.

Skills required:

·      Experience and skills of contract management

·      Experience and skills of specification writing

·      project management skills

·      partnership working skills

·      time management skills

·      good communication skills

·      ability to use Microsoft office specifically Word and Excel

·      report writing skills

·      presentation skills

·      organisational skills

·      data analysis skills

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