Oldham Cares

Commissioning and Quality
Planning and Commissioning Manager – Ageing Well

Ref: G9/OL-20050

Contract Type: Permanent,

Salary: £38,052-£41,846 p.a Grade 9

Hours: 36.66 per week

Based: Ellen House, Waddington Street, Oldham OL9 6EE

Closing date: 19th August 2018

Shortlisting & Interview Dates: TBC

Role overview

Working with Council and NHS colleagues, you will lead on market management and the development, implementation and oversight of commissioning strategies, plans and solutions to improve outcomes in the area of ageing well.

Key responsibilities 

• To lead work on strategic commissioning, planning and development to deliver on key priorities, ensuring clear proposals for service redesign, commissioning and decommissioning.
• To shape and drive commissioning activity that delivers value for money, improved outcomes and required efficiencies. 
• Effectively influence the strategic direction of commissioning for Oldham Cares at a District, Boroughwide and Greater Manchester level as appropriate. 
• Take responsibility for developing programme budgeting across service areas, identifying efficiencies through commissioning and ensuring services are value for money.
• To take a lead on strategically developing and implementing services in the private and community and voluntary sectors, working closely with other commissioning and procurement colleagues and neighbourhood service managers.

Key Requirements 

To succeed in this role you will need as a minimum:

• Extensive experience of planning, commissioning and developing services in a social care and/or health setting
• Experience of initiating, managing and successfully delivering a number of projects and programmes within large public sector organisation and delivering within timescales 
• Specialist knowledge of national and local commissioning issues related to  relevant client groups
• Knowledge of key national policy drivers, legislation and challenges facing the commissioning of services in health and social care and broader contexts
• Awareness of the importance of the personalisation agenda in commissioning 

The post is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the DBS (previously known as CRB)

About Us – part 1

The Oldham Health and Social Care economy has signed up to a new and ambitious vision for care which looks to ‘see the greatest and fastest possible improvement in the health and wellbeing of the Borough’s residents by 2020’.

The vision will be achieved through delivery of a health and social care system that is built upon sustainable financial and person-focussed models, with integration at the heart of health and social care service delivery.

To support the vision we have brought together all the partners from Adult Social Care, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, MioCare, primary care and the Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group to create a new organisation – Oldham Cares.

Oldham Cares is the new way health and social care services will be delivered. It brings together social, health and voluntary organisations to share knowledge, resources and skills to deliver a better health and social care experience for our residents.

At Oldham Cares we are focussed on achieving positive outcomes for people with health and social care needs including:

Supporting people to be more in control of their lives

Having a health and social care system that is geared towards wellbeing and the prevention of ill health

Providing access to health services at home and in the community

Providing social care that works with health and voluntary services to support people to look after themselves and each other

These are exciting times as we design an integrated approach that is seamless and mapped around people.  If you are looking for a new challenge, are motivated, person-focussed and passionate about shaping the future of health and social care services, Oldham Cares is the organisation for you.  We want your career in Oldham to be a lasting one so we will support you in your career development and ensure you are engaged in opportunities to further enhance your personal development aspirations.

To support this new way of working we have made investment in our workforce across leadership, front-line and support services and a number of opportunities are available from social work, through to commissioning and working in our business management service.

About Us – part 2

Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough.  Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans. We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.

The Council has a clear set of Values and Behaviours, our Values outline how we do business and we share these borough wide with our residents, partners and businesses.  Internally we have translated these values into five cooperative behaviours which outline the priority areas of focus for all staff at all levels. You can view the Values and Behaviours on our Greater. Jobs pages (link to the greater.jobs blog with the V&Bs)