Service Director - Commissioning

Alconbury - Hybrid


Job Role

Taking a leadership role and working in close partnership across the Health and Social Care System, this post incorporates responsibilities relating to quality and commissioning of social care and people services for children, young people, individual adults and their families and carers.


Lead on the commissioning of the following services:

Adult services, including Older People, Carers, Sensory Impairment, Learning Disabilities, Autism and Mental Health.

Children's services, including services for children with complex and Special Education needs, children requiring social care support, children in care and children at risk in terms of child protection.

Working with public health on Health and Wellbeing services, Healthy Child Programme, School Nursing, Health Visiting.

Working with ICS partners on development of mental health and other community and acute services.

Early Help services and integrated services for children, young people and adults that are either delivered and managed by the Council or by the NHS as a delegated arrangement.

Principal Accountabilities

To be responsible for leading and managing both statutory and non-statutory services whose primary focus is to build and sustain community resilience and to reduce and manage demand for more costly and/or complex interventions across the public sector.

To ensure that both Councils perform their duties and functions in fulfillment of their statutory obligations. In pursuit of this responsibility, senior managers need to ensure that they and their relevant staff keep abreast of the Council's changing legal obligations and mandates.

To ensure that relevant and best professional advice, guidance and information is available in an intelligible and timely fashion to Adults and Health and CYP Committees, all elected Members, as well as to other stakeholders.

To lead and be accountable for:

Commissioning Adult services, including Older People, Carers, Sensory Impairment, Learning Disabilities, Autism and Mental Health.

Commissioning Children's services, including Health and Wellbeing, complex Educational needs, Community Health, Healthy Child Programme, School Nursing, Health Visiting.

Commissioning Early Help services and integrated Processes for children and young people and adults.

Market management, sustainability, development, procurement, contract and performance management.

Ensuring services are designed, optimised and delivered to improve outcomes in a financially sustainable way whilst fulfilling statutory duties.