Senior Commissioning Manager (Substance Misuse) ~

We are working in partnership with a Local Authority based in the Tower Hamlets area who are looking for a Senior Commissioning Manager within the Substance Misuse Services.

Contract: 6 month agency contract - ongoing on a month to month basis after.

Full Time Position: 35 hours per week.

Location: E14 2BG. (Hybrid working)

Rate of pay: £360 - £500 per day.

About the role:

The Senior Substance Misuse Commissioning Manager will play a central role in the recommissioning of services, ensuring a structured, co-produced, and needs-led approach.

Alongside this, they will continue to oversee existing service delivery, ensuring provider performance and harm reduction initiatives remain on track.

Role Purpose:

• Leading the recommissioning of drug and alcohol services, ensuring procurement processes align with local needs, national policy, and best practice.
• Overseeing provider contract management, ensuring services meet performance targets, quality standards, and compliance requirements.
• Engaging and coordinating key stakeholders, including health, social care, housing, and criminal justice partners, to inform service design and delivery.
• Embedding co-production, ensuring service user voices shape the future service model.
• Maintaining focus on harm reduction initiatives, including drug-related death prevention, naloxone distribution, and responses to contaminated drug supply.
• Ensuring robust data collection, reporting, and performance analysis, providing evidence for commissioning decisions and service improvements.

Experience / Qualifications:

• Must be an experienced Commissioning Service Manager with a proven track record, to provide strong commercial leadership and direction.
• Must have a degree in health and social care or relevant area.

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