Royal Borough of Greenwich Integrated Commissioning Partnership are recruiting for a Senior Commissioning Development Officer to join our Children’s Services workforce.

Shape the Future. Improve Outcomes. Transform Systems.

Are you pro-active with a passion for improving outcomes for children, young people and families? Do you thrive in complex environments, harnessing opportunities to collaborate and implement change across a wider system?

If so, then this is an exciting opportunity to join a great team, support system-wide change, lead a variety of programmes and develop integrated approaches that improve outcomes, reduce inequalities and ensure services meet the needs of our communities.

The Royal Borough of Greenwich Council and the South East London Integrated Care Board have come together to create an integrated approach to commissioning services within Greenwich. You will play a key role in implementing our approach. We've developed our long-term vision with the help of residents and partner organisations, which builds on all our strengths to make a real difference to the lives of children, young people and their families.

We are now recruiting to a Senior Commissioning Development Officer role. This role will work across the Prevention, SEND and Social Care portfolios in Children’s Services.

As a Senior Commissioning Development Officer, you will support strategic leadership in the delivery, commissioning and transformation of services across the various portfolio areas. Working across organisational boundaries, you will build strong relationships, deliver innovation and ensure that services deliver measurable impact.

You will:

• Lead on the delivery of good outcomes for service users through working collaboratively with stakeholders to promote continuous improvement, ensuring that services are safe and of good quality.
• Implement the Greenwich commissioning approach to children’s services across the Council and the NHS, by leading on the co-design with service users and internal teams, on the development and evaluation of services.
• Lead on the monitoring of the quality-of-service provision and through working collaboratively with other teams, ensure our delivery partners are providing a service in which continuous improvement is integral to their delivery.
• Lead the development of monitoring programmes with partner involvement, to ensure positive outcomes and which collects this information at an individual, service and population level.

The successful candidate will be proactive, innovative and passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people in Greenwich. You will have experience of managing projects; have good negotiation and influencing skills to effectively engage a wide range of stakeholders.

You will understand the priorities we are working to within children’s services and you will be passionate about working to support positive change across a whole system.

The right candidate will work closely with senior leaders in children’s services across the Council and the ICB, to develop relationships, strategies and services that deliver improved outcomes at an individual, service and population level.

Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Please focus on the Essential criteria listed on the Person Specification.

For an informal discussion please contactLisa Scott Keenatlisa.scott-keen@royalgreenwich.gov.ukor 0208 921 5680

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Early Advert Close: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).

Full Employment History: A full employment history is required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment.

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

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