Contracts Officer

Are you an experienced contract professional who wants their work to make a real difference to people's lives?, We are hiring a Contracts Officer to join our Adult Social Care Commissioning Team. This is a varied and influential role where you'll manage a portfolio of adult social care contracts, ensuring services deliver quality, value for money and positive outcomes for people who draw on care and support.

You'll work closely with providers, commissioners and internal partners to monitor performance, analyse qualitative and quantitative data, lead provider review meetings, agree improvement plans and address concerns where standards fall short. You'll also contribute to service development, provider resilience work and the mobilisation of new services, ensuring the voice of people using services remains central throughout.

You'll be educated to Level 6 in a business-related subject or be able to demonstrate equivalent specialist knowledge gained through relevant experience. You'll bring practical experience of working in a contract management environment, with a solid understanding of contract management practices, performance monitoring and regulatory frameworks. Experience within adult social care and managing care-related contracts (such as care at home, supported living or residential services) is desirable.

You'll be confident preparing and presenting reports, skilled in collaborative working and able to negotiate, influence and challenge constructively. Strong analytical skills, experience using Microsoft Office (including Excel) and the ability to prioritise and work on your own initiative are essential. Experience of supervising or managing staff is also advantageous.

If you're resilient, professional and motivated to improve services for adults in Solihull, we'd love to hear from you., This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.

Working for Solihull means that we can also offer employees a great working environment, together with a range of flexible working options, an extensive wellbeing offer, as well as attractive staff benefits including staff discounts and access to the Local Government pension scheme.