Team Manager - All Age Commissioning Team

Team Manager, All Age Commissioning Team

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.

Team Manager, All Age Commissioning Team

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.

Making A difference as a Team Manager All Age Commissioning Team.

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 a vacancy for a highly motivated individual who wants to play a key role in responding to the challenges and opportunities facing Adults and Children’s Social Care and Public Health.

As our All-Age Team Manager for Integrated Commissioning, you will line manage a team of Commissioning Officers and provide strategic leadership across a developing all age commissioning hub and portfolio of commissioned services which include Adult Social Care, Children’s Services and Public Health.

You will have significant knowledge and experience of commissioning models of care and support across adults and children’s social care as well as a sound knowledge of commissioning frameworks to enable the robust commissioning of services across health and public health. You will be a strong leader and team player who has a high level of intellectual rigor, negotiation, and motivational skills and is flexible and adaptable to change. In this key role, you will join an Integrated Health and Social Care environment and be expected to work collaboratively with wider Council departments and partners.

The successful candidate should be educated to Degree level and/or have significant experience in a Senior Commissioning role within a Health and/or Social Care environment of at least 2 years.

Interested to Find Out More?

You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.

You are also welcome to contact us for a chat before applying by emailing the Head of Adult Social Care Commissioning at darrenpersand@sthelens.gov.uk

Interviews for this exciting opportunity are expected to take place during March 2026.

Be scam aware: St Helens Council will never ask applicants to share payment information or charge recruitment fees when applying for vacancies. If in doubt, contact recruitment@sthelens.gov.uk

Equality & Diversity

St Helens Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. 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.

St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Leader. Disability Confident Leaders lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.

St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Leader. This means that 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 the interview/selection process.

NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.
All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.