Interim Head of Integrated Commissioning and System Development

– London – 3 months

Venn Group’s specialist Local Government recruitment team is recruiting an Interim Head of Integrated Commissioning and System Development for a Local Authority in London. This interim requirement offers the opportunity to join as Head of Strategic Commissioning and System Development withdirect responsibility for the leadership of one of the following examples commissioning portfolios:

• Ageing Well, Home First, Early Help,
• Working Age Adults with Disabilities and Complex Care / MH / Autism – Adults,
• SEND, Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing - Children

The Role

You will be responsible for:

• Managing up to 4 directly managed staff and managing up to 10 indirectly managed consultancy/contracting staff
• Leading the development and implementation of our integrated commissioning approach for adults/children in and across the Council and the NHS
• Supporting senior leaders and staff through:
• Continued design and implementation of our integrated commissioning framework
• Incorporating appropriate governance structures, which supports integrated, outcome focused approaches to health and care
• Working collaboratively with the market and residents,
• Leading staff across the system to implement transformational change including further integration of health, care and other forms of support
• Overseeing the delivery of approaches to commissioning that address personalisation and whole person pathways
• The post holder will implement effective management of Council and NHS budgets used to commission the relevant health, care and joint services for adults, /children along with the management of key staff based who could be employed by either the NHS or the Council

About You

Essential experience:

• Substantial experience of facilitating and leading co-production and innovation across all commissioning functions.
• Facilitating and enabling the co-production of outcomes
• Experience of reviewing the current service and demand, flow and pathways and undertaking gap analysis.
• Experience of the delivery of highly complex transformational change programmes and associated projects including pilot projects, which includes business case development
• Experience of the development of outcome-based services through the co-produced service pathways / processes arrangements that involve service providers and stakeholders
• Substantial experience of working within the financial framework of health and care statutory organisations, senior level experience of budget setting and budget/resource management including of joint commissioning or shared budgets
• Demonstrable experience of developing a performance management culture by effectively leading, managing, influencing and developing the internal and provider workforce
• Experience of managing performance the successful delivery of contracts and avoiding poor performance through constructive relationship building and effective performance management
• Experience of supporting recruitment and retention and career development of Council, ICB and/or provider workforces
• Experience of risk identification and mitigation, enabling providers to trial innovations
• Experience of managing the decommissioning of contracts

Essential qualification/skills required:

• Educated to post-graduate diploma level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level
• Thorough knowledge of legislation relevant to the role, which may include the, the Health and Care Act 2022, the Care Act 2014, the Children’s and Families Act 2017, Deprivation of Liberties, statutory regulations and government guidance, and standards relevant to planning, commissioning, procuring, safeguarding and quality assurance. This includes familiarity with regulations governing services for adults and/or children and young people, including the Children’s and Families Act 2017
• Sound awareness of the needs of vulnerable residents e.g. MH/older adult MH/Autism/Complex Care needs/PD/ Sensory/LD/older persons - those who are ageing/Children and young people/SEND

Key details

• Day Rate: £548.99 umbrella (inside IR35)
• Location: London / Hybrid
• Start: ASAP

Why consider this role?

- The council has recently won awards for works in Digital health and care technology, and has been recognised nationally for the local Carers Centre which is leading the way in supporting local communities. The council want upcoming services to align with what local people want, in line with the recently published HAS vision, and are also working to deliver against the 10-year plan for health in partnership. This role will provide the opportunity to work on and to support a number of priorities over the coming period.

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