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Project Manager – Mental Health Social Care Commissioning Review
Location: London (occasionally office based)
Length: 9 months
Type: Part time (3 or 4 days per week)
IR35: Outside
A brilliant opportunity for a Project Manager within Mental Health Social Care Commissioning has arisen with one of our exceptional clients and we are looking to recruit a suitable candidate to fill the position on behalf of the Council.
Role responsibilities of the Project Manager will include:
- Establishing a full understanding of the services used, including the identification of any aspect with excess demand or supply and the coalition of accurate data of current service users
- Setting out a strategic plan for the implementation of a new service model
- Review of currently commissioned services against needs in order to agree the required capacity and preferred model of social care provisions
- Identification of investment opportunities with the aim of achieving either service improvements or savings
- Taking account of NHS plans for transformation of mental health services and to make recommendations for partnership arrangements with the NHS
- The project will encompass all commissioning of social care for adults with mental health needs, including formally contracted and spot purchased services, as well as services commissioned
The Project Manager will have:
- Experience of commissioning within the adult social care services
- Experience of using project management skill and excellent time management to ensure timely project completion
- Specific knowledge of adult social care responsibilities in mental health
- Previous experience of report writing and presentation of information in a variety of formats to a mixture of audiences
- Ability to engage with both internal and external stakeholders
If you have experience to match the requirements, or if you would like more information on the role, please contact Jake Powell and email your CV to localgov@venngroup.com
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