Care Home Contracts Officer

Job Introduction

As part of the Council’s wider Commercial function, you’ll work within a small team of Contract Managers and Contract Officers. Pur team oversees the management of contracts for 850+ residential and nursing care homes, which in turn deliver Council funded care services to over 3600 adults.

The Council is about to reprocure its care home contracts, and about to change both its finance system and social care case management system. So you’ll be joining at a time of change, with opportunities to shape systems and processes.

Working primarily from the Council’s offices at Staffordshire Place, Stafford (or a hybrid of office working and smart working from home or other locations), you’ll need to work closely with internal functions such as commissioning, brokerage, finance and quality assurance teams, with external stakeholders, and particularly with external care providers.

Main Responsibilities

You’ll:

• help to populate and issue contract documentation;
• maintain information systems about care homes and the residents they support;
• run reports and use data to good effect;
• support processes around making contract variations and contract novations;
• handle enquiries from care homes, internal teams and partner organisations;
• support the wider contract management functions of the team.

The Ideal Candidate

You'll have:

• education to a level 3 standard or equivalent relevant experience;
• experience of working in a social care and/or commissioning organisation
• analytical and numerical skills
• excellent interpersonal and communications skills, both written and verbal
• computer literacy skills
• the ability to pay close attention to detail and accuracy

We’re aiming for interviews to be held during the week starting 13 July 2026.

Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Kevin Harrison, Head of Commercial Management at kevin.harrison@staffordshire.gov.uk

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

Please note: The minimum essential criteria in the ideal candidate section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes, detailed below.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.