Commissioning Officer

We Are St Helens Borough Council located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire. St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce. Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.

Do you have the skills, commitment, ambition, and determination to play a significant role in one of the top performing Councils in the country? We have an exciting vacancy for a highly motivated individual who wants to shape the future of prevention and technology-enabled care for the people of St Helens. This is a genuinely innovative role sitting at the intersection of commissioning, digital transformation, and the all-age population health with the scope to make a real and lasting difference to how people live independently in their communities.

As a Commissioning Officer in the All-Age Commissioning Hub, you will lead the commissioning of prevention services and technology-enabled care solutions across Adults, Children’s and Public Health services. You will work closely with and have the ability to build strong partnerships and relationships with the voluntary sector, NHS partners, technology providers, and social work colleagues to design and commission services that keep people independent, healthy, and connected to their communities for longer.

What we are looking for:

• A genuine understanding of tech-enabled care, how assistive technology and digital tools work, what they can and cannot do, and how they interface with social care delivery.
• An understanding of the role the voluntary and community sector plays in prevention and a commitment to commissioning that strengthens rather than replaces community‑led support.
• Experience of or a strong commitment to working with people who have lived experience, understanding the real lives of the people we commission for.
• Knowledge of population health approaches for both children and adults including social prescribing, early intervention, and prevention models that reduce dependency on statutory services.
• Strong commissioning skills, from needs assessment and market development through to procurement, contract management, and co‑production with service users.
• The ability to build effective partnerships across the NHS, housing, voluntary sector, and technology providers.

You will join a talented and committed commissioning team working across adults, children, and public health with a shared commitment to commissioning that genuinely improves lives. The successful candidate should be educated to degree level and/or have relevant experience in a commissioning, technology, or prevention role in health or social care.

If you are interested in this role and would like a chat you are welcome to contact us before applying by emailing Florence Olojede, Commissioning Team Manager, or Darren Persand, Head of Commissioning.

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This post is Politically Restricted post in accordance with the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (as amended). The details contained within this job description reflect the content of the job at the date it was prepared. However, it is inevitable that the nature of the job may change over time. Existing duties may no longer be required, and other duties may be gained without changing the general nature of the post or the level of responsibility entailed. Consequently, the Council will expect to revise this job description occasionally and consult the post holder/s at the appropriate time.

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.

Equality & Diversity

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. The Council guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job, as detailed on the Person Specification, and will, for qualifying disabled candidates, make reasonable adjustments within selection. All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles.