Senior Commissioning Manager - Substance Misuse

4Recruitment Services are seeking a Senior Commissioning Manager to lead the implementation and local delivery of a Substance Misuse Strategy and underpinning commissioning activity across a East London Borough.     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.    This position is well suited to someone who is innovative, motivated and passionate about making a positive difference on the lives of residents who misuse substances.    DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE : 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.    ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS INCLUDE : Educated to degree level or equivalent experience Evidence of continuous professional development In depth knowledge of commissioning substance misuse services in conjunction with key stakeholders that promote prevention and early intervention, improve access to services and that deliver effective evidenced based support that promotes recovery. Proven experience of commissioning major contracts and making changes to service provision to improve quality and standards Excellent literacy and the ability to prepare clear concise written reports (e.g. strategies, business cases, service reviews, specifications, bids) Well-developed analytical, data analysis, problem solving skills What we offer : 24 hour one on one specialist consultant based within your geographical area 4Recruitment Services Employee Benefits Programme Our own dedicated payroll support ensuring you get the full benefits of your payment Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer. To discuss this vacancy in further detail or any other vacancies, please contact our Team on (phone number removed) or email  (url removed)