808083-6723-26313 22.11
Home Team Manager – Commissioning
Taunton
Contract
£327.44 per day or £450.00 per day limited paid via umbrella company inside IR35
Our client is looking for an experienced Home Team Manager – Commissioning
1 day per month office based
Home Team Manager � Job description
The request relates to the Home Team, which sits within the Children Looked After (CLA) Commissioning Service. The team plays a critical role in commissioning appropriate homes for children and young people in care and is central to delivering the programme’s transformation objectives.
This request forms part of interim additional resources to mobilise and deliver the ‘Value for Money from the External Market’ workstream within the My World My Tomorrow transformation programme.
The resource is required to support both the Home Team restructure and the wider transformation work alongside Newton Europe. Given the expected impact of organisational change on staffing capacity, including increased absence, uncertainty and turnover, together with existing long-term sickness absence and the urgent statutory nature of the team’s responsibilities, the interim post will provide resilience to the current existing Home Team Manager and to work closely with Newton Europe to support implementation of the new ways of working. The existing Home Team Manager will continue to manage and lead the team.
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Knowledge skills and experience
• Extensive knowledge of the children’s social care external placements market, Demonstrates a thorough understanding of market pressures, sufficiency challenges, provider operating models, placement availability, commissioning approaches and relevant regulatory frameworks.
• Experience leading a children’s social care brokerage, placement finding or home-finding function, managing high-volume and complex placement activity while maintaining a strong focus on achieving the best possible outcomes for children and young people. Proven ability to lead, motivate and develop brokerage teams operating in a demanding and fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of children’s social care operational services and practice, including the journey of children through statutory services, care planning processes, permanence planning and placement decision-making. Able to work collaboratively with social work teams, managers and senior leaders to ensure placement activity is aligned to children’s assessed needs and care plans.
• Extensive experience leading and implementing change within complex organisational environments, including service transformation, restructuring, process redesign and cultural change. Able to maintain operational performance whilst delivering improvements in productivity, efficiency and service effectiveness.
• Highly developed commercial and negotiation skills, with a proven track record of securing suitable placements, managing provider relationships and achieving value for money within the children’s social care external placements market. Skilled in negotiating placement costs, contract terms and service specifications whilst maintaining positive provider relationships and ensuring quality outcomes for children.
• Experience of working with independent providers, building productive partnerships that support sufficiency, quality improvement and collaborative problem-solving. Able to influence providers, challenge performance where required, and work strategically to shape market capacity.
• Experience of developing and delivering training, guidance and professional support to children’s social care teams, improving the quality of referrals, strengthening placement matching processes and increasing understanding of market options, commissioning requirements and placement decision-making.
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex placement, market and performance data, using evidence and intelligence to inform strategic decision-making, identify trends, improve forecasting and support sufficiency planning.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with experience of working effectively across commissioning, procurement, finance, children’s social care operations, health partners and external providers to deliver shared objectives.
• Strong communication, presentation and report-writing skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and credibly to senior leaders, elected members, operational teams and provider organisations.
• Demonstrable commitment to improving outcomes for children and young people, ensuring that placement decisions achieve the best balance of quality, stability, proximity to family and community, and value for public money.
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