Leadership, Management and Commissioning Skills Sample Clauses

Leadership, Management and Commissioning Skills. Action dealing with leadership and management skills will be central to driving services and workforce reforms forward. The great changes in employer patterns have moved on without necessarily taking forward new modes of management and leadership with the skills needed to implement them. These skills will be needed at local employer level in order to drive business and service success. But they are needed also at regional level where new partners have to find new and more effective ways of working with each other. Nowhere will this be truer than in looking at the leadership and management partnership implications once the consequences of the extended schools and extended services begin to be understood. The skills involved in commissioning services will be at a premium with an emphasis on commissioning services that people want rather than buying more of the same. Effective commissioning for the workforce is an important aspect of this. The sector needs to be aware of what the new commissioning framework announced in March 2007 will require, across social care and health especially, skill and confidence, and knowledge of what people who use services really want. For professionals to open up the debate about the nature of services is a challenging especially with limited resources. To achieve a meaningful and genuinely two-way debate will require high order skills. The commissioning role needs to stimulate the local market, otherwise services will not be available locally that people actually want to buy. The SSA needs to address this.