Senior Commissioner - Adults and Health

Senior Commissioner - Adults and Health

£58,818 - £71,412 per annum 

Full-Time, Permanent

About Newham

Over the last few years Newham has built a national reputation for positive risk taking and innovative and transformative commissioning, winning LGC recognition for ILSS Trusted Assessors, Rough Sleeping and our Health and Wellbeing Strategy. We lead the North East London Market Management work, driving improvement in outcomes and financial sustainability through collaboration. We are about to invest millions in Technology Enabled Care. If you have ideas, grit and a desire to improve people’s lives, Newham is the best next step for your career.

About The Role

Working with a variety of stakeholders, you will transform services and deliver positive outcomes for Newham’s Care Act eligible residents - putting in place safe, high-quality, value-for-money services that enable residents to improve their health and wellbeing, safe in their own home.  

You will be responsible for:

• developing the North East London Market Management Group (including overseeing the delivery of the Accelerating Reform Fund projects across the footprint);
• leading Adults and Health into the 21^st Century through the implementation of an ambitious Care Tech programme;
• oversee the mobilisation of our new all-age Home Care contract (including the expansion of our award winning Trusted Assessor programme); 
• oversee the refresh of the Carers Strategy.

About You

You will have:

• in-depth knowledge and experience of Adult Social Care;
• experience in all aspects of the commissioning cycle and be able to critically appraise service delivery to develop innovative solutions;
• experience of writing and presenting detailed and well-reasoned reports and business cases to senior management boards;
• a track record of delivering resident outcomes through directly managing staff, budgets and services;
• the ability to develop long-term relationships, creating networks external to the Council, including at a regional level – and with local Providers and residents;
• strong organisational / ’political’ awareness and record of successfully delivering and influencing organisational change.

We are keen to work with exceptional individuals who have the experience, vision and ambition to help us create an improved and sustainable future for our Care Act eligible residents and those on the edge of care. If this sounds like you, we would welcome your application.

Please view JD here

Closing date 8th December  2024

Additional Information

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