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This is an exciting opportunity to work within Buckinghamshire Council’s Integrated Commissioning Service in Prevention in the Community team.

As a Commissioning Support Officer, you will be part of a team that supports purchasing and monitoring the quality of Health and Social care services for adults and children in Buckinghamshire. You will work closely with colleagues to ensure value for money and that people's assessed individual needs are met.

About us

Buckinghamshire was one of the first 8 areas in England to establish an Integrated Care System. Introduced in 2017, Integrated Care Systems involve NHS organisations working in partnership with Local Authorities and other organisations to take collective responsibility for managing resources, delivering NHS standards, and improving the health and wellbeing of local residents.

In the summer of 2018 Buckinghamshire Council (formerly BCC) and the Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group restructured their commissioning functions to set up a new, all age Integrated Commissioning Service, supporting the Integrated Care System’s ethos to deliver whole population outcomes by aligning strategic commissioning activities across health, public health, and social care.

There are 8 commissioning teams within the Service. Each team is led by a Specialist Commissioning Manager and works across the whole commissioning cycle to support service improvement, value for money, and improved resident and service user outcomes.

About the role

We want the successful candidate to provide project support across Integrated Commissioning in order to take forward relevant work streams and provide support on all aspects of the commissioning cycle for services for children, adults, families, and communities to improve individual and population outcomes for Buckinghamshire residents.

The all age prevention team commissions services to reduce the chance of people of all ages requiring health or social care support. This might be needing support in the future and to reduce the level of support they might need. We work with a range of partners who include public, private and voluntary sector. Our role is to develop and commission and monitor effective responses to the changing needs of people in Buckinghamshire.

Services we commission include:

• Healthy Child Programme (0-19 years) Specialist Public Health Nursing Service
• Children’s Integrated Therapies Service
• Community based child health services, often for children with long term conditions
• Community Prevention Services

Any-Desk:

As an ‘any-desk’ worker, you’ll need to be connected to our network to access digital folders and resources, but this can either be from home or an office location when required. You will be required to work from the office a couple of times a week, depending on your role and team requirements*.

• subject to current Government Covid-19 Guidance

About you

You will need to have an eye for detail. Successful candidates will be expected to maintain, and update project related documentation and co-ordinate activities associated with these projects. In addition, providing effective administrative and financial support to the integrated commissioning service.

You will have a calm and positive approach to your work, with the ability to work under pressure and prioritise tasks. You will be highly organised and a clear communicator.

You may already be a care professional or someone who wants to pursue a career in health and social care commissioning and looking for that entry level into commissioning.

Please see the job summary attached for full details.

Other information

If you would like to find out more about this role, please contact Simon Evans at [email protected] or 07816 118029.

This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• Unspent convictions and/or unspent conditional cautions only

For further information on how long it takes for convictions and conditional cautions to be spent, please refer to Nacro’s guide on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Buckinghamshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk.

Our values and culture

We have a set of values, which our employees have chosen, that represent what we are – Proud, Ambitious, Collaborative and Trustworthy.

By joining us, you can expect:

• a fair and inclusive culture
• the chance to really make a difference to those around you
• health and well-being initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and mindfulness workshops
• a unified voice through our Employee Representative Group
• ongoing support, and the opportunity to develop and progress in your career with us
• opportunities to take part in fun activities such as fundraising and social events

We know that our biggest strength comes from the people that work for us, and that’s why we’re working hard to ensure we continue to be an accessible and inclusive organisation.

From dedicated staff networks overseen by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group, to proudly standing as a Disability Confident employer, it’s important to us that all our colleagues feel engaged, listened to, and valued. Our offer of flexible working empowers a productive and happy workforce and allows employees to combine work with other responsibilities and commitments.

We believe our workforce should reflect the diverse communities we service in Buckinghamshire, and are looking for like-minded individuals to join us in promoting equality, fairness, and inclusion for everyone.

About the Business Unit

Buckinghamshire Council’s Integrated Commissioning Service plays a vital role in our Adults and Health directorate. Working collaboratively with partners across a wide range of public, private and voluntary sectors, our aim is to align strategic commissioning activities to support service improvement, value for money and improved resident and service user outcomes.

We commission a diverse range of services. These include domiciliary care, residential and nursing care, day opportunities and support living, direct payments, and carers support for unpaid carers. We also commission several NHS services, including all strands of mental health provision. This integrated commissioning between adult social care and health services has enabled us to improve the efficiency of services we provide to our residents.

To ensure sustainability and resilience for the future, we identify the need for and procure new services and contracts for both health and social care. This involves building strong relationships with staff at all levels within these services, discovering and supporting areas for development, and monitoring the quality of the services we provide to our residents. If you are committed to making a difference and enjoy working in a fast-paced but friendly environment, we want to hear from you.

We recognise and reward you

Hard work and success deserves recognition. That’s why we pride ourselves on the benefits we give our people. We actively encourage a good work-life balance and promote flexible and agile working arrangements. We provide discounts on various Cafés, restaurants, shops, Microsoft Home Use Programme, and auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme. We also offer a salary sacrifice personal car lease scheme and the opportunity to gain membership to Costco. We have discounted gym memberships, Travel discounts with Arriva and Chiltern Railways and much more.

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