Possibility for 1 year secondment
Role Purpose
The post holder will have responsibility for coordinating the Commissioning Division’s procurement programme during a busy and important period of activity for Greenwich. You will keep projects on track and identify where action is required to ensure delivery of key milestones.
You will work as part of an Integrated Commissioning Unit based in North Woolwich that covers health and social care.
You will build key working relationships with Corporate Procurement colleagues and work closely with them as well as lead commissioners in the integrated team.
Overall the role will support the delivery of the Council’s statutory duty to vulnerable adults, including promoting wellbeing, and independence and choice.
Assure the Council achieves efficient services and value for money across all commissioned contracts.
Promote the involvement of citizens, including service users in the design, development and evaluation of services in collaboration with colleagues across the service.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversight of the entire programme of planned procurement exercises
- Managing individual tender exercises
- Maintaining procurement action plans
- Direct liaison and work with Strategic Procurement
- Ensuring all required documentation is completed correctly
- Liaison with Commissioning Managers regarding specific requirements
- Putting together evaluation panels
- Report writing
- Liaison with Legal & Finance departments
- Key lead with procurement partners, e.g Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group
- Introducing E-procurement processes
- Contract award, decision and payment process
The role will be responsible for representing the Integrated Commissioning team where appropriate at set strategic meetings that require procurement updates. There will be requirements for report writing and summarising key actions to Integrated Commissioning leads, and HAS DMT and the procurement team.
Requirements
You will have significant experience of the health or social sector including experience of service management or commissioning , staff management and performance monitoring.
You will have the ability to develop , manage and implement a range of procurement projects – seeing them through key stages and milestones.
You will be able to apply understanding of financial and budget planning to these projects and use a range of IT skills to support you. This will include engaging where appropriate in e-procurement elements of a tender.
You will be able to understand, interpret and report using quantitative and qualitative information, be creative with solutions and understand risks and issues to mental health sector. You will be an excellent communicator.
You will be a team player and able to work effectively with all stakeholders, including people who receive services, carers, clinical leads and service providers. This role will be a key partnership role across Integrated Commissioning and Procurement.
You should have highly developed interpersonal skills and be highly motivated and enthusiastic, along with being a nimble and creative thinker with the ability to record your thoughts clearly and concisely in writing.
For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Stuart Nichols; [email protected] 079 2128 5788
If you require any assistance in viewing or accessing this opportunity, please contact [email protected] or call 020-8921-8977
Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.
High Volume Applications: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.
DBS: This role requires an Enhanced DBS. (This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act,1974)
Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated
Secondment (development opportunity): This secondment is an employee development opportunity and therefore is open to applications from existing RBG employees only. Appointment to a secondment opportunity is subject to the agreement of your Chief Officer to be released from your permanent/substantive post.
How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application. If you have a disability and are unable to meet some of the job requirements specifically because of your disability, please address this in your application. If you meet all the other criteria, you will be shortlisted and we will explore jointly with you if there are ways in which the job can be changed to enable you to meet the requirements.
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