Strategic Commissioning Lead, Home Care and Reablement

This is an exciting opportunity to join and help build Cornwall Council's new People Commissioning Service. We have recently reorganised our service to enhance the leadership capacity, reflecting Cornwall's ambitious commitment to the transformation and modernisation of social care services. To support these changes, we have a number of new Strategic Commissioning Lead posts in the Older People and Carers Commissioning Team, which is part of the Care and Wellbeing Directorate. We are looking to recruit people with an interest in excellent public services who have innovative, analytic and creative minds and a track record of successful delivery. Cornwall Council is one of the largest unitary Councils in the country. We have a population of c570,00 residents, which includes c144,000 older adults and 54,000 unpaid carers, meaning that the team plays a vital role in supporting our local residents to access the care and support they need. We are committed to developing vibrant, safe and supportive communities and these Strategic Commissioning Roles will work alongside our strategic partners, providers, voluntary and community sector and people with lived experience to achieve this local ambition., The Strategic Commissioning Lead roles will have responsibilities including:

• Establishing strategic commissioning and the intelligent client function for the Council across the delivery of people services
• Leading on driving innovation and excellence in service delivery
• Managing patterns of demand differently to improve outcomes
• Establishing strong and effective partnerships to commission services jointly across with health, housing and other providers.
• Leading the strategic transformation and reshaping of services over the medium to longer term.
• Working closely with social care providers to help them be the best that they can, not only delivering excellent services but also supporting them to deliver added social, economic and environmental value to the Cornish economy.
These are the most senior commissioning roles reporting into the 'Head of Commissioning for Older People and Carers and managing a team of commissioners including commissioning managers, commissioning officers and assistant commissioning officers. They will be the subject matter experts and lead on the transformation of significant areas of the Council's business. They will find solutions to some of the most challenging questions the Council faces, co-designing solutions with stakeholders. They will work over the medium to longer term horizons always drawing on evidence and international best practice., Strategic Commissioning Lead: Home Care and Reablement: This role will lead on the successful mobilisation and ongoing management of our new home care alliance agreement, where providers and commissioners work collaborative to achieve flexible, responsive, efficient and effective home care services. The role will also facilitate the development and implementation of a reablement at home model with a view to achieving integrated commissioning with the NHS to ensure the best possible reablement experience for people in the community or leaving hospital. This will include close partnership working with the Home Care Strategic Providers, the Council's purchasing and operational teams and NHS partner organisations. It will also include opportunities to understand and communicate the positive impact of community-based support services for individuals and strategic partners. Strategic Delivery Lead: Accommodation with Care: This role includes the macro delivery of accommodation with care services for older adult residents. This will include the ambitious delivery of new care home and extra care market capacity, building new services for Cornwall's residents by working with partners across the Council, including planning and housing, and the NHS. The role will be responsible for delivering the objectives for older people set out in the Council's Supported and Specialist Housing Strategy, which includes creating modern, fit for purpose accommodation for the future. Strategic Commissioning Lead: Community Equipment and TEC: This role includes the mobilisation and management of the Community Equipment Loan Services contract and the development and implementation of the Technology Enabled Care strategy and service delivery model. These exciting transformations will revolutionise how we support individuals by enhancing package of care with equipment an assistive technology that can promote their independence, improve their individual outcomes and reduce their dependency on long term, workforce-based care services. It will involve extensive change management with Cornwall's residents across health and social care. What you'll get in return: Cornwall Council's ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.


• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.