Commissioning Manager

Overview

How you’ll make a difference

As a Commissioning Manager, you will use your expertise in building strong partnerships with social care, housing, public health, VCSE and provider organisations to meet our strategic commitments. Working collaboratively on the development of the care provider market in South Gloucestershire, you will support the sector to meet our vision for strong communities to deliver department-wide commissioning priorities. 
As part of the Strategic Commissioning team, you will work across a variety of adult social care commissioning areas such as home care, care homes, specialist provision including dementia, learning difficulties and mental health.

What you will be doing

• Using your experience and knowledge, you will provide advice and information to a range of customers, delivering high quality, value for money and efficient services. 
• Supporting the Strategic Lead for Service Development and Partnership and Service Manager, you will ensure all emerging legislation, guidance, best practice and policy agendas locally and nationally are proactively identified and their relevance and impact developed accordingly.
• You will support the team in responding to different work pressures including picking up new and different strategic areas of work as necessary.  
• The service may require you to manage a small team of commissioning officers or assistant commissioning officers to support your work. 

What we need from you

• You will have a degree or professional qualification in social care, health care, public health, housing or business studies or other relevant subject, or comparable experience gained in the workplace.  
• It is essential that you have experience at a senior level of working in a commissioning role in a social care, housing, health or public health environment, which includes knowledge of relevant legislation, including Care Act market shaping responsibilities and EU procurement rules.  
• We require you to have experience of developing and delivering creative and innovative commissioning strategies or business plans. This will include needs assessment and market analysis, preferably related to social care, health, public health and housing services and of contract management and performance appraisal.
• You must understand children’s and adult social care, housing, health and public health and their underpinning values, standards and legislative framework, including an understanding of the personalisation agenda. 

What you need to know

• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at home, and the office plus other locations, for up to 2/3 days per week, and potentially more frequently during initial induction and orientation.

Interviews anticipated for 29th October 2025.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different

• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance – whatever that means for them.   
• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities. 
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities. 

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of.  
• We’re working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life. 
• We’re investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.  
   

We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference. 
We’re making a difference, be part of it!  
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