Primary Care Contracts Manager - London, United Kingdom - NHS South East London Integrated Care Board

Description

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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic team leading the way in delivering integrated primary care service, that meets the needs of our diverse population. There has never been a more exciting and rewarding, albeit demanding time to work in primary care. The successful applicant will join a motivated team in the role of Primary Care Contracts Manager within the South East London (SEL) Primary Care Contracting Team based at 160 Tooley Street.

The Contracts Manager will be one of the primary contacts for GP Practices in Bexley and Bromley; or Greenwich and Lewisham; or Lambeth and Southwark Borough areas. Each area has its own specific and often interesting and complex challenges. The candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day contract management for a portfolio of circa 100 PMS, GMS, and APMS contracts.

For more information or an informal discussion, you may contact Stella Babudoh at or

Main duties of the job

The right candidate must have excellent attention to detail, be able to show initiative, have a positive 'can-do' professional attitude, and have the ability to reprioritise in an ever-changing environment. In addition, it is important that the candidate is confident with numbers and has a good working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.

There is an excellent opportunity to develop experience across a diverse range of GP contractual activities and issues and to gain essential knowledge on GP contracts in our evolving primary care contracting landscape.

Working for our organisation

The South East London ICB is the NHS management unit of the ICS. It is accountable to NHS England and the South East London Integrated Care Partnership (ICP). The ICS exists to deliver four core purposes:

• Improve outcomes in South East London population health and health and care services
• Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access suffered by the residents of South East London
• Enhance productivity and value for money in the use of health and care resources in South East London
• Help the NHS support broader social and economic development in South East London.

The ICS is an intermediate management tier and fundamental to the operating model of the ICS three fundamental principles:

• Partnership: We are a partnership of sovereign bodies coming together to achieve something greater than the sum of the partners. All partners have a voice, and all partners have responsibility.
• Subsidiarity: We work on the basis of subsidiarity. This means issues and decisions should be dealt with at the most local level consistent with their effective resolution.
• Accountability: We value both supporting each other and being held to account by each other and our wider partners.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the duties and responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Post-graduate diploma level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of complex diary management
• Experience of working in a complex, multidisciplinary environment
• Experience of working to tight deadlines and managing own time
• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
• Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to draft correspondence
• Ability to prioritise tasks, seeking guidance as required
• Excellent organisational skills
• Confident - able to deal with individuals at all levels and in challenging situations
• Team player, tactful, diplomatic, discreet, flexible can-do approach

Other

Essential criteria

• Tactful, discreet and diplomatic
• A flexible can-do approach
• Team player

Please note that our roles require you to live in the UK due to on-site elements of the job, and remote working outside of the United Kingdom is not permitted under NHS data security laws. Before you make an application, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK. Further information is available from Work in the UK Government website.