Hillingdon is London's second largest borough, delivering some of the highest levels of resident services across the UK. Putting our residents first is at the heart of everything we do, and we are embarking on an ambitious plan to modernise our offering, while sustaining the high-quality services and facilities they expect. We commenced our transformational and business change road map last year, with the aim of modernising the way our services are delivered, maximising technology and ensuring we have the right culture in place to enable us to deliver our vision of being easy to do business with.
Within Adult Social Care & Health, we have a new opportunity for a Head of Commissioning role to lead and be responsible for the successful delivery of a Social Care Commissioning model and structure to deliver Hillingdon’s Commissioning Strategy. This is a permanent position and is an exciting new role within the Council that doesn’t come along very often and will offer challenge and stretch and a great sense of achievement to the right individual.
This is an exciting time to join Hillingdon Council as our Adult Social Care & Health Head of Commissioning. This post will report directly to the Assistant Director of Direct Care & Business Delivery in ASC&H and will work closely and collaboratively with the Director of Procurement. It will also require working with the other Assistant Directors of Adult Social Care & Health as well as many partners across borough. They will lead on the implementation of the commissioning model within Social Care (and where relevant will extend to where there are common suppliers to the council to leverage buying power) to strengthen its efficiency and effectiveness and enhance the council’s contribution to building stronger communities and improving resident's outcomes.
The post holder will be required to deliver a high-quality service that is delivered on time, within budget, ensuring value for money, using effective project and programme management approaches and techniques as adopted by the Council. The role will also provide support as required to other projects within the service area. You will be responsible for leading on the centralisation of commissioning within Adult Social Care.
This is a high-profile role, which will have regular interface with key members of the Corporate Management Team and Cabinet. The post holder will work closely with a range of external organisations from the health, independent and voluntary sectors to develop a sustainable, diverse and innovative care market that meets the varied needs of the people in Hillingdon and ensures equality and dignity for all. If you are eager to really make an impact and are achievements and results driven, then this role is one for you!
About you
Individuals who are highly motivated, passionate about making a difference, love a challenge and will bring energy and pace to the delivery of our ambitions should consider this excellent opportunity. You must have extensive experience of project and programme management of projects within Social Care. Sound financial management skills would be beneficial in this role. If you are an individual that can bring confidence, enthusiasm, strong organisational skills and the ability to get things done and work at pace, we would welcome your application.
This role is offered as a fixed term contract of up to 6 months.