Commissioning Support Officer

About Us At Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

About The Role

Hounslow’s Joint Children’s Commissioning Team has a wide remit with responsibility for a range of health and social care services. This post will support the commissioning of services for children and young people and will provide a key source of organisational support to the team.

This post is pivotal in ensuring the effective execution of contracts and informed decision-making within the team. The post holder has a critical part in maintaining transparency, accountability, and stakeholder satisfaction. Working alongside our health partners, this post will be delivering a variety of tasks from contract monitoring, manging funding requests, and providing crucial administrative support. This post is an opportunity to develop a wide range of skills around communication, management, and data monitoring.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

The purpose of the Joint Children’s Commissioning Team is to plan, procure, and oversee the delivery of services for children and young people within Hounslow. This team plays a crucial role in ensuring that the needs of children and young people are met effectively, and that services are designed and delivered in a coordinated and integrated manner with health partners.

The team aims to support the overall well-being of residents by coordinating and improving services for children and young people. Through collaboration, community engagement, and a focus on prevention, residents can experience a more supportive and effective system of care for their children.

In a Joint Children’s Commissioning Team, various roles contribute to the planning, procurement, and delivery of services for children and young people. The team plays a crucial part in achieving the team's overarching goal of improving outcomes for children and young people by planning, coordinating, and overseeing the delivery of effective and integrated services. Some roles in the team include commissioning managers, key workers, placement officers, and project managers.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

• You have strong time management skills with the ability to prioritise and manage a heavy workload, effectively, and to work flexibly to meet changing needs and tight deadlines.
• You have a positive attitude to learning and have an enthusiasm to deliver tasks to a high standard.
• You have excellent team working skills with the ability to support the needs of a variety of individuals in a multi-function team.
• You communicate effectively with a range of audiences and colleagues of all levels of seniority; you will have used this to engage with stakeholders and ensure their needs are met.
• You are committed to the public service ethos and putting residents first; but can balance this with an emotional resilience and commercial awareness, to operate efficiently in an austere financial environment.
• You will bring demonstrable experience and skills in leading and managing multi-disciplinary project teams to deliver improved and positive service outcomes for service users.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Degree or equivalent
  
  

Essential For The Role:

• Basic DBS
  
  

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email:

Telephone: 07762735561

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 25th November 2024.

(please seek your line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)

Email:

Telephone: 07762735561

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 25th November 2024.

(please seek your line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)