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Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.

Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.

Making A Difference as a Commissioning Officer in the All -Age Integrated Commissioning Hub

Do you have the skills, commitment, ambition, and determination to play a significant role in one of the top performing Councils in the country?

We have an exciting vacancy for a highly motivated individual who wants to help shape the future of commissioned services for children and young people in St Helens. This is a key role supporting the development of high-quality, sustainable services, with the scope to make a real and lasting difference to outcomes for children, young people and families.

As a Commissioning Officer in the All-Age Commissioning Hub, you will lead and support the commissioning, development and review of services for children and young people. You will work closely with children’s social care, education, health, providers, and other partners to understand need, develop provision, and ensure commissioned services deliver strong outcomes and value for money.

What we are looking for:

• A good understanding of children’s services and the challenges and opportunities facing children, young people and families

• Experience of using data, intelligence and feedback to understand need, identify gaps in provision, and inform service development

• Experience of or a strong commitment to working with children, young people and families and using lived experience to help shape services

• An understanding of early intervention and prevention approaches that improve outcomes and reduce escalation to statutory services

• Strong commissioning skills, from needs assessment and market development through to procurement, contract management, and co-production with children, young people and families

• The ability to build effective partnerships across children’s social care, education, health, providers, and the voluntary and community sector

You will join a talented and committed commissioning team working across adults, children, and public health with a shared commitment to commissioning that genuinely improves lives.

The successful candidate should be educated to degree level and/or have relevant experience in a commissioning, service development, or related role in children’s services, health, education, social care, or another transferable setting.

Interested to Find Out More?

If you are interested in this role and would like a chat you are welcome to contact us before applying by emailing Florence Olojede, Commissioning Team Manager, at florenceolojede@sthelens.gov.uk or Darren Persand, Head of Commissioning, at darrenpersand@sthelens.gov.uk

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Making a Difference

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Full Job Description & Person Specification Documents are included with this advert.

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The details contained within this job description reflect the content of the job at the date it was prepared. However, it is inevitable that the nature of the job may change over time. Existing duties may no longer be required, and other duties may be gained without changing the general nature of the post or the level of responsibility entailed. Consequently, the Council will expect to revise this job description occasionally and consult the post holder/s at the appropriate time.

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Equality & Diversity

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. The Council guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job, as detailed on the Person Specification, and will, for qualifying disabled candidates, make reasonable adjustments within selection.

All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles