Commissioning Manager

Commissioning Manager – Adult Mental Health 
6-Month Interim Contract | Immediate Start
£350-£450 per day
Inside IR35 (via umbrella)
South West London – Hybrid Working (2-3 days onsite)

CVs are being reviewed immediately and interviews will be taking place shortly.

Are you an experienced Adult Mental Health Commissioning Manager who thrives on improving services and delivering meaningful outcomes for communities? This is an exciting opportunity for an accomplished Adult Mental Health Commissioning Manager to join a high-profile team at a pivotal time, helping to shape, develop and enhance adult mental health provision across a complex and dynamic landscape.

As an Adult Mental Health Commissioning Manager, you will play a key role in driving service improvement, managing strategic partnerships and ensuring commissioned services deliver quality, value and positive outcomes. If you enjoy working across multiple priorities, influencing stakeholders and bringing innovative solutions to complex challenges, this could be the ideal next assignment for you.

Your Role as Adult Mental Health Commissioning Manager:

• Lead service development and transformation initiatives across adult mental health services
• Drive effective commissioning strategies to improve service quality and outcomes
• Manage complex contracts and provider performance, ensuring value for money
• Build strong relationships through effective stakeholder engagement across health, social care and partner organisations
• Deliver innovative, solution-focused approaches to complex commissioning challenges

Your Previous Experience as an Adult Mental Health Commissioning Manager:

• Significant experience as an Adult Mental Health Commissioning Manager within a local authority, NHS or health and social care environment
• Strong background in commissioning, service redesign and continuous improvement
• Proven experience of contract management and performance monitoring
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels
• Ability to manage competing priorities, work flexibly and adapt within a fast-paced environment

This opportunity would suit an Adult Mental Health Commissioning Manager looking to make an immediate impact within an established team, contributing to important service developments while working collaboratively with a range of partners.

If you’re interested in discussing this opportunity in more detail or know someone who this may be of interest to, please contact Melanie on 0117 313 7110 or apply today.

(We offer a senior referral scheme upon successful placement of your recommendation so please do get in contact)

Due to the fast-paced nature of interim recruitment, applications are reviewed as received and client requirements may change during the recruitment process.

Whilst we endeavour to review all applications, we may not be able to respond individually to every candidate.

Submission of an application, expression of interest or right to represent does not guarantee submission to a client, interview, placement, or engagement. Recruitment decisions ultimately remain subject to client requirements, availability, suitability, and selection processes.

Baltimore Consulting is committed to fair and inclusive recruitment practices, and all applications are considered based on the requirements of the role and the information available at the time of review.

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