Commissioning Manager

Job Title: Commissioning Manager
Starting Salary: £52,138 progressing to £57,652 per annum – pay award pending
Hours: 37 per week
Location: Main base Stevenage or Apsley, with hybrid home working
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Adult Care Services

About the team

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and shape Hertfordshire’s Supported Living offer for adults with learning and/or physical disabilities. As Commissioning Manager, you will play a crucial role in strengthening the market, driving best practices, and ensuring personalised, sustainable support for our communities.

You will be joining an experienced and ambitious team of Strategic commissioning managers and officers, committed to enabling extraordinary people to live fulfilling ordinary lives and achieve personalised outcomes and aspirations, reflecting Hertfordshire County Council’s Connected Lives commissioning principles

About the role

Your portfolio will include:                                                                

• Procurement, contractual oversight and development of Services
• Developing strong partnerships and information sharing with health and social care stakeholders including operational social work teams, brokerage, Integrated Care Boards (NHS), Children’s Services, the Mental Health Trust.
• Taking forward specific projects, including Supported Living contract handbacks, re-provisions, de-registrations, funding bids/business cases and demand forecasting and modelling.
• Managing contracts throughout their term ensuring performance, quality, and value for money.
• Being the subject matter expert for your work area and be a powerful advocate for disabled adults and where appropriate, the market.
• Support other commissioning projects, as requested, by the Community Commissioning for Disabled Adults.

You will be at the forefront of embedding Hertfordshire County Council’s Connected Lives vision into commissioning practice, ensuring flexible and person-centred models of care for disabled adults and their carers.

Key to your daily work will be the relationships you will build with key stakeholders including experts by experience, operational (Social work) colleagues, market care providers and NHS partners to promote quality and mitigate  financial challenges facing the system. You will deliver robust quality assurance oversight and transformation of Supported Living Services, including new service developments and new service models.

About you

Essential

• Experience in commissioning social care within the public sector.
• Strong knowledge of national policy related to Supported Living for disabled and autistic adults.
• A passion for equality, diversity, inclusion, and co-production with Experts by Experience and their carers.
• Ability to independently plan and deliver a complex work programme while managing priorities effectively.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, with a track record of applying creative strategic commissioning models.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills to engage stakeholders and drive impactful change.
• Strong contract management expertise, ensuring performance, quality, and financial sustainability.

Desirable:

• Experience commissioning for disabled and autistic adults.

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

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To hear more about this opportunity please contact Laura Gordon, Head of Community Commissioning for Disabled Adults at Laura.gordon@hertfordshire.gov.uk or 07779 334307 for an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: 9 and 10 July 2025

Benefits of working for us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Additional information

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Driving required
You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.