1. JOB PURPOSE

The Postholder will be responsible/accountable to Associate Director of Integrated Commissioning & System Development (Adults) or Integrated Commissioning Director, Children’s. Manages up to 4 directly managed staff. Manages up to 10 indirectly managed consultancy/contracting staff. The post holder will be responsible/accountable for:

• Leading the development and implementation of our integrated commissioning approach for adults/children in and across the Council and the NHS, which enables strong partnerships and high-quality services that support Greenwich residents to lead healthy, fulfilling and independent lives.
• Supporting senior leaders and staff through:
• Partnership and co-production,
• Continued design and implementation of our integrated commissioning framework
• Incorporating appropriate governance structures, and 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 RBG 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.

2. Main duties

• To be the Head of Strategic Commissioning and System Development withdirect responsibility for the leadership of one of the following example 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

Knowledge

• Educated to post-graduate diploma level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Extensive knowledge of health/care policy and practice along with experience of its implementation gained in a health, care or local authority setting.
• Thorough knowledge of legislation relevant to the role, which may include the Children Act 1989, the Health and Care Act 2022, the Care Act 2014, the Children’s and Families Act 2017, and the Mental Health Act 1983, 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.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to manage knowledge and assess need, identify gaps and forecast demand.
• Ability to assess, understand and stimulate the creation of thriving markets, including micro-markets and through collaborative working maximise choice and value for money across the social and environmental bottom line.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills and ability to develop and maintain credibility and confidence of colleagues, both internally and externally
• Ability to explain complex commissioning or policy matters in a clear, compelling and collaborative way to different audiences and stakeholders and across organisational boundaries.
• Ability to develop and decommission services.
• Able to facilitate by evaluating outcomes with stakeholders’ innovation and continuous improvement across all commissioning functions.

Experience

• Substantial experience of facilitating and leading co-production and innovation across all commissioning functions.
• Facilitating and enabling the co-production of outcomes with people we support, their family and neighbourhood.
• 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.
• Experience of facilitating the co-production of an implementation/procurement route and plan with stakeholders.
• Substantial experience of quality management and the development of quality characteristics which guide how services will be provided.
• 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.
• Experience of managing political sensitivities and supporting cultural change.
• Experience of inter-agency and collaborative working across organisational boundaries at all levels and with different professional groups.