Overview
Commissioner – Stanton House, Huntingdon, United Kingdom
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
Our Adult Social Care Commissioning service plays a vital role in shaping high‑quality, sustainable support for people across the county. As a Commissioner, you’ll join a dynamic and collaborative team that sits at the heart of delivering our organisation’s strategic goals and ensuring services continually improve and adapt to changing needs.
You will help us deliver measurable improvements in service quality, outcomes and efficiency by developing and implementing commissioning intentions that align with statutory duties and organisational priorities. Your work will draw on data, insight and lived experience to influence how services evolve—maximising positive impact for people, carers and partners.
You’ll collaborate closely with operational colleagues, providers, community networks and partner agencies, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and co‑production. This is a meaningful role where your work will directly shape experiences, independence and wellbeing for adults across the county.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Shauna Torrance, Shauna.torrance@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Standard Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About you
You will be someone who is collaborative, analytical and passionate about improving outcomes for people.
You will bring strong communication, relationship‑building and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams and sectors, experience contributing to or leading a commissioning cycle process, service development, or project‑based work, including coordinating delivery and tracking progress and the ability to analyse information, use data and insight to inform decisions, and apply value‑for‑money principles.
You will be a confident communicator, both written and verbally and will have the ability to develop reports, recommendations and accessible briefings.
You will be comfortable navigating complexity, ambiguity and change, with a proactive, solution‑focused mindset. You will also have a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion; safeguarding and contributing towards our Net Zero ambitions.
Please use your supporting statement in your application to outline how your skills and experience meet the essential criteria outlined in the Job Description/Person specification.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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