A client who I work closely with are on the lookout for a Joint Commissioning Manager to come into their mental health team, paying up to £450 a day.

The Joint Commissioning Manager is part of the Strategic Commissioning & Investment Team
within Fairer Together.
The post-holder will be responsible for commissioning services to cover one or more of the

following client groups and service types:

• Age Well: Older Adults, Domiciliary Care & Dementia and Accommodation based pathways & Last Years of Life
• Live Well: Disabilities and Learning Disabilities
• Live Well: Mental Health
• Live Well: Supported Housing and Homelessness

Commissioning

• To work closely with Procurement, Commissioning Officers, Contract Officers and service users and carers in the commissioning, procurement and monitoring of services
• To devise specifications for commissioned services ensuring that they meet the needs of the borough and the population.
• To ensure that where commissioned services are seen to be failing, timely interventionsare made to avert adverse consequences through effective contract monitoring.
• To be an active member of the Commissioning Team and to support the section leadership in the management of the service.
• To escalate issues to Senior Joint Commissioning Managers in thorough and timely ways.

Joint Working

• To work in partnership with other Council departments, Clinical Commissioners, Public Health Specialist staff, service users and carers and providers from the private, voluntary and community sectors to establish effective services and reengineer or decommission services no longer needed.
• To participate in the development of an integrated approach to joint commissioning across health and care

Programme Management

• To contribute to the development and delivery of their team's commissioning work programme
• To contribute to the commissioning of innovative and cost effective services and schemes for the client group(s) they manage.
• To adopt a project management approach to the completion of their commissioning workand to work to deadlines as required by the services

Please Apply to this role with a CV attached to be considered

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