Senior Commissioner

London Borough of Hounslow; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

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

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Children’s Joint Commissioning Team as a Senior Commissioner. As a key member of our team, this role will lead a range of complex programmes and individual projects that support the commissioning of services for children, young people and their families within Hounslow, including a significant capital programme to increase local, borough-based placement options for Looked after Children.

The successful candidate will have significant experience and expertise in project management, change and transformation, an in-depth understanding of the commissioning cycle including procurement, and the ability to manage a range of stakeholders. The role will have responsibility for corporate projects and be accountable for the delivery of key project milestones, risk management and to keep senior management informed of progress, escalating issues where necessary.

In addition to this, the role will support the wider Business Change team, providing oversight and support to ensure project outcomes are delivered and milestones met. The successful candidate will be confident providing effective challenge, be organised, have excellent communication skills and an understanding of local government processes, ideally with a focus on Health and Social Care priorities.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

Hounslow’s Children’s Joint Commissioning Team has a wide remit with responsibility for ensuring a wide range of health and social care services are delivered to a high standard and offer value for money. The team works in partnership with the Northwest London Integrated Care System, multiple Local Authority Service areas and external partners and providers.

This post will support the team across a range of different work areas to deliver elements of the Council’s Corporate Plan and the One Hounslow Children and Young Peoples Plan. The postholder will play a key role across Hounslow’s Joint Commissioning Team, supporting priorities and delivering change. The role will provide oversight for a range of work areas, operating in both a strategic and operational capacity.

About You

• You have significant knowledge and experience of developing and delivering a variety of complex projects in a public sector setting.
• You have a collaborative problem-solving approach, are able to operate effectively through prioritisation, delegation of tasks and organisation of available resources.
• You communicate effectively with a range of audiences, including elected members, 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.

Essential Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent
• Evidence of project management training

Essential For The Role:

Basic DBS

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

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 Will Parsons.

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Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 21st April 2025.