Sussex Wide Market Development Commissioning Lead

About Us

Sussex is leading the way in innovation and collaboration with health and social care authorities focusing on commissioning, providing and delivering a person-centred and strengths-based approach in empowering people to lead a full, healthy, active and fulfilling life. To support this ambition this partnership role has been created to support a project with the intention of piloting a different approach to managing complex challenges the system faces. The role whilst hosted by West Sussex County Council will also work for Brighton & Hove City Council, East Sussex County Council, NHS Integrated Care Board and Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust.

About The Job

Salary

£64,682 to £68,330 per annum

Working Pattern

Full time, 37 hours per week

Contract Length

12 month fixed term contract*

Location

Horsham office base

Interview Date

18th June

Across Sussex, there is a growing need for suitable move-on accommodation for individuals with ongoing health and social care support needs. This reflects wider pressures within local housing services, including increasing numbers of people in temporary accommodation and a limited supply of housing options.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with partners across housing, health, and social care to help diversify and strengthen accommodation pathways. You will support the development and expansion of innovative care and support models, building on existing schemes to better meet local needs.

As a key strategic role, you will ensure that health and social care priorities are informed by a strong understanding of both current and future demand. You will identify gaps and opportunities, helping to drive meaningful improvements so that people in Sussex can access the right support at the right time.

You will play a lead role in driving transformation, improving pathways, and overseeing market development. This will include enabling innovation and supporting delivery throughout the duration of the programme. The role requires strong partnership working across organisational boundaries, engaging with a wide range of stakeholders-including service providers, health and social care partners, and people with lived experience.

Working in a matrix way across services, you will be responsible for designing and developing a sustainable model to support the health and social care market.

About You

You will be able to travel independently across Sussex to meet with providers and partners as required. The role involves managing complex programmes of work, requires sustained concentration, and demands the ability to deliver outcomes to agreed timelines and budgets.

*Internal candidates wishing to apply for this role will be considered for a secondment position. Please can you therefore discuss and agree this with your manager before applying for this position.

Experience and skills

What you'll need to succeed

• You will understand the social and economic context of the health and social care framework in which local authorities and the National Health Service (NHS) work and the implications of this for delivery of cross authority objectives.
• You will need significant commissioning and health and social care experience.
• You will make a commitment to working with the market to develop high quality and empowering services for customers and be able to demonstrate you have a proactive and innovative approach to collaborating and working with partners to secure shared outcomes within a complex operating environment.
• You will be an innovative thinker, collaborator, and change maker able to lead in an ambiguous context and remain focussed on delivering results.
• Educated to post-graduate level or equivalent, you will have significant experience of leading, developing and shaping services and in depth understanding of the health and social care commissioning environment.
• You will have extensive prior experience of translating business strategy into effective plans and action in a large organisation.
• Experience of having worked at a senior level in a political and multi-agency environment, within the health or social care arena.
• Experience of leading complex projects to develop skills, capacity, and performance and to achieve delivery of innovative long-term outcomes and service improvements.
• Experience of working in partnership in complex environments leading initiatives in a complex and/or political environment.
• Evidence of effective co-production in realising improved outcomes.

Please ensure you read through the job description for the full list of essential criteria on which your application will be short listed.

Rewards and Benefits

For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further Information

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Lucie Venables (Head of Commissioning Lifelong and Mental Health Services) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

To apply, upload your CV and complete the application explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to a standard DBS check, 5 years referencing and a health check.

West Sussex County Council is an equal opportunities employer committed to promoting an environment that is inclusive and free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of its people. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and take every possible step to ensure that no individual will be disadvantaged.

For information regarding your eligibility to apply for this role under our Disability or Veteran's Guaranteed Interview Scheme (if you meet all the essential criteria), this can be found on our application help page.