Medway Council Hiring for Children’s Partnership Commissioning Programme Lead – Education and Inclusion Job at Remote , UK Full Time

Medway Council are excited to be recruiting to this post which will seek to work collaboratively with all Education settings to improve outcomes for children and create more inclusive environments.

Medway Public Health Programmes Team includes partnership commissioning – these are the roles that seek to improve joint outcomes between Health and the Local Authority in Medway. We are now looking for a Programme Lead to join the team and lead on the commissioning of services to improve school inclusion and outcomes for school aged children.

Partnership Commissioning is looking for a motivated individual with extensive partnership working and commissioning experience. The postholder will work with partners across Medway to ensure our commissioned education services take a whole school approach and are providing the earliest interventions to improve outcomes for children. As such they will need the ability to engage with a range of stakeholders and also have the credibility and capability to work collaboratively with clinical staff.

The Partnership Commissioning team are a forward thinking and experienced service that coordinate a wide portfolio of projects for Medway Council and Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group including children’s’ emotional wellbeing and mental health, children’s community and acute care, as well as universal public health children’s services. The postholder will work alongside the programme leads for these areas too.

The successful applicant will report to the service manager (Head of Public Health Programmes) and proactively manage current commissioned contracts and procurement of new services. As the lead for Education Commissioning, they will work closely with the AD for Education and SEND and their leadership team to address the education and SEND priorities including improving inclusion in schools and improved outcomes for school aged children especially those with special education and disability needs. They will be expected to work in partnership with education settings, providers, other agencies, and strategic networks.

This may include undertaking practice research, assessment of need and demand, data and financial analysis and arranging/coordinating patient/service user and provider engagement activity where required.

Applicants should have knowledge and recent experience of:

• measuring and monitoring outcomes in relation education and SEND, insights gathering or other similar procedures to identify need, risk and inequalities.
• Promoting Inclusion and education performance with evidence of impact.
• Commissioning large scale projects that deliver improved outcomes
• Audit, Evaluation. Performance management and continuous development of commissioned and delivered interventions.
• Working to the most recent policies and guidance for Special Education and Disabilities and Education.
• Collaborative working with stakeholders from voluntary, statutory and private sectors.

This exciting opportunity will give the successful applicant the opportunity to contribute extensively to improved outcomes for our children, young people and their families.

In return we offer you:

• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Generous local government pension scheme package
• Access to wider training and development qualifications
• Flexible working scheme
• Travel plan discounts
• Car Benefit Scheme from Tusker
• Access to CAREFIRST advice & counselling service
• Employee discount scheme for national and local retailers

• The Government has introduced new ways of supporting parents with childcare costs. Further details are available here: – https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/

Our organisation:

Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.

Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.

We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more – everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively.

Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in.

If you would like to have an informal discussion with the recruiting manager please call e-mail Aeilish Geldenhuys on [email protected] or Celia Buxton on [email protected]

Interviews are likely to be held virtually via Microsoft Teams. Full details on how this will work will be sent to you, if your application is successfully shortlisted.

Important Information-

Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile

Equal Opportunities Commitment Statement

Medway Council is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All appropriately qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, family commitments, sexual orientation, age, HIV status, religious or political beliefs, social class or trade union activity or irrelevant spent conviction.

For further information please refer to the Medway information pack available as a download or to view online

Please be advised that if you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted. All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email.

Please visit http://www.mindfulemployer.net/ for information on how Medway Council put good practices in place to ensure employees and job applicants who declare mental health issues receive the right level of support.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date.

How to apply

Please be advised that we only accept online applications submitted through JobsGoPublic ATS

If you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted.

All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email, if you require documentation/correspondence in different format such as braille or large print, please contact the Resourcing Team on 01634 332878.