1. CATEGORY MANAGEMENT
IN SUTTON
Recruitment Pack
December 2015

2. Overview
On 1st July 2015 Sutton launched its new approach to commissioning across the Peoples Directorate. A new integrated commissioning team working across both Children’s and Adults Social Care services, called the Category Management Team which became responsible for:
Strategic Commissioning
Market Shaping and Management
Procurement
Market Oversight and Quality Assurance to prevent market/provider failure
Contract Management
The team oversee a combined spend across all categories of approx. £80m annually.

3. Who are we looking for
In our Category Management Team we have the following vacancies that we are now looking to fill:
Senior Category Manager – Community Living and Complex Needs
Category Manager – initially working across our Community Living and Complex Needs category
What type of people are we looking for in our Category Manager roles:
People with strong leadership skills.
People who have excellent strategic commissioning experience across the whole cycle.
People who are able to support and develop the team, be that via management accountability or as a team member.
People who understand the bigger picture and can operate in a fast paced environment delivering on key targets.
People who have experience across either the adults field.

4. Category Management in Sutton
The Category Management Team in Sutton is split into three integrated categories:
CATEGORY 1 – including preventative services, services for carers and universal social care provision
CATEGORY 2 – services enabling adults and children to remain living at home
CATEGORY 3 – specialist social care provision for more complex needs including specialist accommodation based provision for adults and children
The three categories are supported by a Market Systems Team who:
Designing Systems and Process
Manage and Maintaining Performance Management Systems
Provide Technical Support on Procurement Systems
Project Support to the Category Teams

5. Category Management Structure
Head of Social Care Category Management
Joint Health & Prevention Category Manager
Quality Improvement Officer x1
Senior Category Manager
Targeted Community Support
Category Manager x2
School Meals Client Side
Community Living & Complex Needs x3
Market Systems Manager
Market Systems Officer

6. Category 1 – Prevention and Universal Health and Social Care Services
This category focuses on:
Stimulating and shaping the market for preventative services (including those that prevent, reduce and delay the need for statutory support)
Developing and making use of community resources
The prevention prospectus
Leisure contracts
A joint health and social care approach to prevention involving key stakeholders such as public health, Education and Leisure

7. Category 2 – Targeted Community Support
This category focuses on:
Targeted and shorter term community-based solutions to sustain and improve people’s quality of life
Helping to support resilience for individuals and families
Stimulating and shaping the market for targeted services based on assessed needs
Markets include personal care, CAMHS tier 2, transport, disability framework

8. Category 3 – Complex and longer term social care needs
This category focuses on:
Complex social care needs and specialist accommodation schemes
Longer term services
Markets include residential and nursing care, supported living, housing with care, Looked After Children services, SEN, Foster Care

9. Useful web links https://www.sutton.gov.uk