Contract Monitoring Officer - Stanton House, Huntingdon, United Kingdom at Cambridgeshire County Council

Position Contract Monitoring Officer - Stanton House, Huntingdon, United Kingdom
Posted 16 May 2026
Expired 15 Jun 2026
Company Cambridgeshire County Council
Location Huntingdon | GB
Job Type Full Time

Job Description:

Latest job information from Cambridgeshire County Council for the position of Contract Monitoring Officer - Stanton House, Huntingdon, United Kingdom. If the Contract Monitoring Officer - Stanton House, Huntingdon, United Kingdom vacancy in Huntingdon matches your qualifications, please submit your latest application or CV directly through the updated Jobkos job portal.

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Contract Monitoring Officer - Stanton House, Huntingdon, United KingdomOur Benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

  • A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
  • Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
  • Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
  • Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
  • Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
  • Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
  • Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
  • Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
  • An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About the role

The Contract Monitoring Officer is a key role within the Adult Social Care Contract Management & Market Shaping service, which is responsible for ensuring commissioned adult social care services are delivered safely, compliantly, and to the required quality and valueformoney standards across Cambridgeshire. The team works closely with commissioning, brokerage, finance, and providers to maintain oversight of service performance and to identify and address risks at the earliest opportunity.

In this role, you will focus on the monitoring of provider performance, using agreed tools, data, and feedback from people with lived experience to assess whether services are meeting contractual and statutory requirements. You will support planned monitoring activity, analyse performance and financial information, and work with providers to agree and track improvement actions where concerns are identified.

The impact of this role is significant. By identifying quality, performance, or financial risks early and supporting timely escalation where needed, the Contract Monitoring Officer helps protect people who use services, maintain service continuity, and safeguard public funds. The role also contributes to wider service learning by sharing insights with colleagues to support continuous improvement and inform commissioning and marketmanagement activity across the organisation.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Gurdev Singh .

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Standard Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

About you

You have experience in contract monitoring, quality assurance, commissioning, regulation, or service oversight, and understand how effective monitoring supports safe, highquality services and positive outcomes for people with lived experience.

You are confident working with providers and internal colleagues to review performance, address concerns, and support continuous improvement. You bring strong analytical and organisational skills, enabling you to review performance and financial information, identify risks or trends, and contribute to evidencebased decisionmaking.

You are someone who understands the importance of compliance, governance, and accurate recording, and are comfortable working within established policies, procedures, and escalation frameworks. You are an effective communicator and relationshipbuilder, able to adapt your approach to different audiences and clearly report on risks, issues, and improvement activity.

You are someone who can work collaboratively, contribute to crossteam learning, and demonstrate inclusive behaviours in your daytoday work.

Previous experience in adult social care or formal contract monitoring is desirable but not essential. We welcome applicants with transferable skills from areas such as inspection, auditing, performance management, regulated services, safeguarding, or dataled service improvement, who can apply these effectively in a contract monitoring role.

Relevant training or qualifications in contract management, quality assurance, public sector services, finance, or a related discipline are advantageous, alongside a commitment to learning, safeguarding, equality, and continuous improvement.


Please use your supporting statement in your application to outline how your skills and experience meet the essential criteria outlined in the Job Description/Person specification.

About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities. our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Job Info:

  • Company: Cambridgeshire County Council
  • Position: Contract Monitoring Officer - Stanton House, Huntingdon, United Kingdom
  • Work Location: Huntingdon
  • Country: GB

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