Joint Commissioning Team Manager

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

Join us at Coventry City Council on our remarkable journey to shape a brighter future for the city's children, young people and families! As an 'Outstanding' Local Authority, we strive for excellence and place children and young people at the heart of our practice. We're seeking individuals who are enthusiastic, flexible, and eager to develop their skills.

In our Commissioning Service you'll play a vital role, in supporting the commissioning of services, you'll contribute significantly to Children’s Services, ensuring positive outcomes for vulnerable children and families. Join our passionate and dedicated team, and together, let's make a meaningful impact on the lives of Coventry's children!

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values are:

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

As Team Manager for Children’s Joint Commissioning, you will lead a team responsible for driving integrated, high impact services for children and young people, families and carers.

This post leads and directs the work of the Children’s Joint Commissioning Team, ensuring the delivery of City Council and health partner objectives. The role has a strong focus on commissioning services that span both local authority and health systems, including mental health, therapies, respite care, medical assessments, and provision for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).

As part of the Children’s Services leadership team, you will drive forward integrated commissioning approaches, ensuring services are high-quality, responsive, and centred around the needs of children and families. You will play a critical role in shaping commissioning strategies, influencing service development, and ensuring the voices of children and young people, parents and carers are embedded in service design and delivery.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We are seeking an experienced and motivated leader with:

• Strong experience in children’s joint commissioning across health and social care and education services.
• Be skilled in leading commissioning for areas such as Childrens mental health, neurodivergent, short breaks and SEND provision.
• Confidence working with key partners such as the ICB, Public Health, providers and Adult Commissioning
• Be able to drive strategic planning, service development, quality assurance and market shaping
• Be a strong negotiator with experience integrating services and delivering cross‑agency programmes through collaborative working
• Be analytical and a collaborative leader who can deliver high‑quality, joined‑up services for children and young people
• Experience of managing staff, budgets and leading complex commissioning or procurement processes involving partner organisations
• You will be confident in leading change, influencing across organisations, and delivering improved outcomes for children and young people.

Within our team people from minority ethnic backgrounds are currently under-represented across our middle-management team, as a result we would like to encourage people from minority ethnic backgrounds to apply for this post. This does not prevent any other applicants with a protected characteristic or a non-protected characteristic from applying.

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.

Interview date(s): W/C 27th July

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies