Salary: £51,356 to £55,539 per annum

Grade: N

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy Hours: 37 hours per week, Hybrid

Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is on an ambitious journey to transform the way care and support is delivered, creating a vibrant, resilient and person-centred care market that enables people to live the lives they want to lead. We're driven by innovation, collaboration, strategy, and the power of people's voices. We believe the best solutions are built with communities, not for them. Rooted in strengths, local assets, and lived experience.

If you are a dynamic leader with a passion for asset-based community support, co-production, partnership working and shaping high-performing care markets, this is your opportunity to make a profound and lasting impact.

As a Commissioning and Service Development Manager, you will play a pivotal role in co-designing, commissioning, leading and improving a diverse portfolio of healthcare and community support services across a North Yorkshire. You will champion community strength, strategic development and co-production, with a particular focus on maximising community and asset-based support.

This is a role for a collaborative innovator. Someone who thrives on partnership working, values co-production, and is inspired by the chance to design services that make a genuine difference, ensuring services reflect what matters to people.

We have two vacancies with portfolios covering:

Community and Asset Based Support

• Community Based Support (day services)
• Shared Lives
• Advocacy
• Personalisation, including Individual Service Funds and micro-commissioning

Strategy development and service transformation

• Dementia strategy, implementation, and support services
• Learning disabilities, strategy, and development
• Autism Strategy, implementation, and development of community of interest group
• Carers Strategy, commissioning carers breaks and support services
• VCSE commissioning strategy and approach for future

What You will Lead:

Strategic Commissioning and Market Shaping

You will lead the commissioning, procurement and ongoing improvement of services, ensuring they deliver outstanding outcomes and value for money. You will shape the Market Position Statement, influence strategic plans for your portfolio, and develop a diverse and sustainable provider landscape to meet future needs.

Co-Production and Community Engagement

You will champion meaningful engagement with people with lived experience, carers, community groups, providers and partners. Their voices will help you create responsive, high-quality services tailored to local strengths and community assets.

Insight-Driven Improvement

You will turn complex data into actionable insights, driving performance, quality, transformation and innovation. Using robust monitoring frameworks, evidence and research to ensure services are safe, effective, and continuously improving.

Leadership and Partnership Working

You will build strong relationships across the care market, NHS, housing partners, VCSE organisations and internal teams representing the Council at senior levels and spearheading collaborative solutions.

Operational Excellence

You will directly influence multi-million-pound budgets, lead a motivated team, ensure regulatory and policy compliance, champion safeguarding, and embed efficient systems and processes that support strong market oversight.

We're looking for someone who is:

• Experienced in commissioning, service development or transformation within Adult Social Care or Health
• Skilled in co-production, partnership working and community engagement
• Confident using data, insight and evidence to drive decisions
• A strong leader supportive, motivating, and collaborative
• A strategic thinker with excellent communication, influencing and problem-solving skills
• Passionate about equality, diversity, human rights and strengths-based practice
• Able to manage budgets, mitigate risk, and deliver high-impact programmes
• Flexible, proactive and able to travel across the county

This is your chance to lead real transformation and to build a North Yorkshire where everyone has the support, opportunities and connections they need to thrive.

This is a hybrid role, with the expectation to travel across the County, including a minimum of two office-based days per week at County Hall, Northallerton.

If you would like an informal chat about the role please contact with Joanne Waldmeyer at Joanne.Waldmeyer@northyorks.gov.uk or Natalie Smith at Natalie.Smith@northyorks.gov.uk

Apply today and be part of something truly meaningful.

Key Documents

Job Description Commissioning and Service Development Manager Grade N.docx

Total Rewards

Key Dates

Closing Date: Thursday 19 March 2026

Shortlisting Date: Friday 20 March 2026

Interview Date: Friday 27 March 2026

Venue for Interview: County Hall, Boroughbridge Road, Northallerton, DL7 8AN

NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

North Yorkshire Councils' purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other's contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.

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