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Head of Service - Strategic Commissioning

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Birmingham Children's Trust

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United Kingdom , Birmingham

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66627.00 - 85845.00 GBP / Year
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Your leadership can transform lives. At Birmingham Children’s Trust, we are committed to making Birmingham the greatest city to grow up in. We are seeking an exceptional leader to head our Strategic Commissioning Service – a pivotal role in shaping services that deliver the best outcomes for children and families.

Job Responsibility:

  • Lead and inspire a high-performing commissioning team to deliver safe, loving and successful homes for Birmingham children
  • Develop and implement commissioning strategies that ensure sufficiency of placements, including fostering, residential care, and specialist provision
  • Drive transformation and innovation, embedding evidence-based practice and co-production with children, families, and partners
  • Oversee complex procurement processes, ensuring compliance with regulations while achieving value for money
  • Manage budgets and contracts effectively, using performance data to monitor outcomes and inform continuous improvement
  • Collaborate across sectors, building strong relationships with health, education, voluntary organisations, and private providers to create integrated solutions
  • Champion diversity and inclusion, ensuring services meet the needs of Birmingham’s diverse communities
  • Lead market development and sufficiency planning, ensuring the right services are available now and in the future
  • Embed quality assurance and performance frameworks, ensuring commissioned services meet Ofsted and statutory standards

Requirements:

  • A high performing leader with significant experience in commissioning within children’s services or a related field
  • Strong commercial acumen and understanding of public sector procurement
  • Excellent negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Ability to analyse data and drive performance improvements
  • Passion for improving outcomes for children and families, with a commitment to trauma-informed and strengths-based approaches
  • Must have the correct right-to-work in the UK documents
What we offer:
  • A generous annual leave package of 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service and 35 days after 10 years of service
  • Generous Pension Scheme
  • Full access to our amazing internal employee benefits scheme including, Occupational Health services, Rewards Schemes, Benefits discounts (including the Blue Light Card), Health & Fitness and Personal Wellbeing support
  • Free on-site parking at our offices on One Avenue Road (Aston) and Lifford House (Stirchley)
  • Onsite electric car charging ports which are free to use
  • Flexible and hybrid working policy
  • A variety of working patterns to support a positive work/life balance
  • Generous local government pension scheme

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 13, 2026

Expiration:
February 01, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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