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Childrens Commissioning Lead

Job Summary
Contract Type:
Permanent
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
09/01/2025
Advert End Date:
05/02/2025 12:00
Salary:
£47,754.00 - £49,764.00
Allowances:
N/A
Hours per week:
37
Job Category:
Social Care - Children Service
Vacancy ID:
274413
Employment Location:
Redcar & Cleveland House / Home working (Hybrid working)
Number of posts:
1
Closing date:
5 Feb
Further Information
An exciting opportunity has become available to work within Childrens Commissioning and support services.

This job will appeal to you if you like working in a busy team and have a genuine interest in ensuring children and young people experience good quality services to grow and develop in. 

You will oversee all aspects of childrens commissioning and quality assurance of the Children’s Social Care Commissioned Services. You will engage with partners, stakeholders, services and the market to ensure effective support for the sufficiency and commissioning strategies.  You will work together with partners and internal departments to improve outcomes for children, young people and families.

You will be responsible for leading specific projects and on the development and implementation of strategies and action plans. You will work with the market to ensure services meet the needs of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council’s Children and Young People ensuring services are high quality, value for money and sustainable. 

We’re truly committed to providing our children with the highest quality of service and we need like-minded people who can help us deliver this. We need people who want to make a difference, who are talented, possess the right knowledge and skills and who want the chance to demonstrate how good they are.

We are a small team who support each other. The role offers Hybrid working or can be officed based and is a permanent position.

The council holds ambassador status for the North East Better Health at Work Award.

We offer very attractive terms and conditions of employment, including generous annual leave entitlement, flexible working hours (where appropriate), Hybrid working, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and access to numerous other salary sacrifice schemes.

We offer an employee health and wellbeing platform, which includes an exciting range of staff benefits, including, spreading the cost of home and electronics, bike shop, car scheme, gym membership, lifestyle savings and an Employee Assistance Programme available to all employees.

For more information regaridng this role, please contact Andrew Hames on 07967433338