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ASC Commissioning Service

While the model for commissioning has changed, our commitment to work closely with the ICB and our partners remains the same. We continue to work together to seek the best outcomes for Gloucestershire.

We have five teams, who work together to deliver adult social care commissioning for Gloucestershire County Council.

  1. The strategic commissioning team has responsibility for strategic commissioning and planning for adult social care in Gloucestershire. This covers system leadership, planning, commissioning intentions, and financial performance. The team has responsibility for long term support for all adults, including housing for people with eligible needs, the delivery of the prevent, reduce, delay agenda for all adults, support for carers and advocacy development, strategic developments (including care home building) and partnership work.
  2. The quality team has responsibility for provider quality and improvement for all adult social care services delivered by the private, independent and voluntary sector in Gloucestershire, including regulated and unregulated provision. This includes assurance and improvement process for all adult social care providers, workforce, international recruitment, management of provider complaints, and escalation capacity for provider failure.
  3. The contract management team has responsibility for the management of all adult social care contracts and for provider payments. This includes regular contract meetings with contracted providers, escalation of strategic issues, KPI collection, framework management, contract escalation, disputes, uplift process, fee disputes, audit of delivery, implementation of frameworks, provider payments, and implementation of procurement regulations relating to contract management.
  4. The brokerage team has responsibility for that will connecting individuals to the right care and managing commercial fee negotiation for individual placements.
  5. The commissioning support team supports all of the adult social care commissioning team and covers administrative and business process for commissioning which include training, risk management, annual plans, governance, and business continuity planning.

The contract management and brokerage teams perform contract management, provider payment, and brokerage functions on behalf of GICB.

Download our ASC Commissioning Service career pathways here or view them below.