Associate Director – Children & Young People Int. Commissioning

Working on behalf of a Local Authority, Aatom Recruitment has a new opportunity for an Associate Director – Children & Young People Integrated Commissioning on a 6 months contract with the possibility of further extension.

The postholder will lead a joint children and young people’s commissioning programme that enables to deliver service and system transformation in a number of priority areas.

Main responsibilities:

• Lead and co-ordinate commissioning in all assigned areas as part of the Children and Young People’s Integrated Commissioning Programme
• development of strategy, including commissioning strategies to agree and improve outcomes for children, young people and families.
• ensure appropriate needs assessments are undertaken and that commissioning strategies are evidence based. – pathway redesign.
• development and implementation of relevant service and quality specifications and associated contracting mechanisms.
• development and implementation of performance and outcome measures, and relevant evaluative frameworks.
• children and families and public engagement, working with the communications & engagement team to ensure effective stakeholder engagement in assigned areas of commissioning responsibilities.
• coproduction of service design and service outcomes with children, young people, parents and carers
• Accountable for commissioning budgets including large block contracted spend and individual packages of support, including joint children’s and individual health and care budgets (and personal budgets)
• Accountable for the staffing budget of the Children and Young People Integrated Commissioning team.
• Work with the communications & engagement team to ensure service user, patient and citizen involvement in all aspects of the role.

Requirements

• Educated to masters level with additional in depth professional knowledge in own discipline over a significant period
• Evidence of ongoing professional and personal development
• Management qualification
• Senior management experience of commissioning health and/or social care across settings of care e.g. primary, secondary and community care
• Proven experience of planning, policy and development at senior level
• Experience and knowledge of public and service user involvement to influence service development.
• Proven ability to interpret national and local policies and implement change effectively

If you are interested, please apply or contact Anisha for more information!