As a Strategic Lead within our Partnerships and Commissioning Service, you will play a key role in driving transformation across our services.
Post 1:
As Strategic Lead within our Commissioning Transformation Programme, you will provide strategic oversight, vision, drive and leadership to a small team across a broad and varied portfolio. The programme is centred around three key themes, with you taking lead responsibility for one:
- Fair Cost of Care
- Accommodation with Support & Mental Health Pathways
- Young People Transitioning into Adulthood
Post 2:
As Strategic Lead for Service Development and Partnerships, you will provide strategic oversight, vision and leadership to your team across a broad range of provision.
The team is responsible for delivering all newly commissioned services, leading on recommissioning, strategic planning, and market engagement. It works across the full commissioning cycle, including procurement activity, and includes roles dedicated to co-production and ensuring that people’s voices shape and influence every stage of service design and delivery.
What you will be doing:
- It will be your responsibility to oversee complex commissioning reviews, pathway redesign, and service transformation initiatives.
- To shape a cohesive and sustainable local market, you will foster strong, mature relationships with system partners, VCSE organisations, providers and communities.
- By driving innovation and continuous improvement, you will embed strengths-based and outcomes-focused approaches.
- You will develop market-shaping strategies, including workforce sustainability, market sufficiency and future demand modelling.
What we need from you:
- You must have a degree or professional qualification in social care, health care, public health, housing, business studies, or a related field, or equivalent experience gained within a relevant professional area.
- Given the elements of this role, you will have a strong track record of leading complex, cross‑system programmes with demonstratable impact.
- You will be a confident strategic thinker with significant experience in adult social care commissioning, partnership development, and/or system transformation, with excellent stakeholder management, relationship-building, and negotiation skills.
- Proven line management experience is essential, including effectively managing performance and supporting a small team to maximise their potential.
- Significant experience of commissioning, contracting and performance within a relevant setting is required, alongside a commitment to co-production, inclusion, and improving outcomes for citizens.
- You will have experience of developing and delivering innovative commissioning strategies or business plans, including needs assessment, market analysis, contract management, and performance evaluation, ideally within social care, health, public health, or housing services.
What you need to know:
- All applications will be initially reviewed and if you are shortlisted, you will be invited to complete an assessment. If you are successful through this stage, you will be invited to attend an interview.
- There are two posts available, please indicate on your application if you have a preference.
- This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at home, and the office plus other locations, for up to 2/3 days per week, and potentially more frequently during initial induction and orientation.
Interviews will take place week commencing 15th June 2026.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different:
- We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance - whatever that means for them.
- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
- As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
- We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
- We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.
We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Strategic Lead - Job Description