Primary Care Manager
Accepting applications until: 08-Jan-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 08-Jan-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Derby City Council House
- Address
- Corporation Street
- Town
- Derby
- Postcode
- DE1 2FS
- Major / Minor Region
- Derbyshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pa, pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Primary Care
NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the health statutory body for the Derby City and Derbyshire population. ICSs are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined-up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area. Serving a total population of 1,053,000 with a budget of over £1.6 billion the ICB has a staff base of approximately 500 people.
At DDICB we are passionate about making diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We have staff engagement forums, a diversity and inclusion network run by and for our people and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. Together, we are building an inclusive culture, where difference is celebrated and people feel able to bring their whole self to work.
We are a disability confident employer and offer a range of family friendly, flexible working arrangements and inclusive employment policies, to support our people in the workplace.'
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Primary Care Team that is part of the Strategy and Delivery Directorate at NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board working as a Primary Care Manager.
The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team to ensure their workstream of programmes and projects are planned and managed effectively leading to successful delivery.
The post holder will support the work of the Primary Care Team with responsibility for specific Primary Care projects and Primary Care contracts. The Primary Care team has a dual function, commissioning Primary Care providers and developing Primary Care. Some post-holders will focus on development and others on commissioning. However post-holders will be expected to be able to work effectively in either area, with the ability to interchange as required; The post-holder will have an area of functional expertise, as well as a ‘key contact’ role, and to provide support in that area to other key contacts, county-wide.
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The post holder will have the following responsibilities:
Working under the direction of the Assistant Director of Primary Care and the Senior Primary Care Managers, the commissioning responsibilities will be as follows:
· Commission primary care providers across Derbyshire, both:
§ Those that the ICB is directly responsible for;
§ Those delegated under the delegated commissioning agreement;
· Commissioning incorporates: commissioning, development, procurement, implementation, delivery, performance management and contract variations;
· Support and contribute to the various aspects of primary care commissioning and contracting under the direction of the Head of the Team and Assistant Director;
· Manage and contribute to the development of service specifications and contribute to the development and redesign of care pathways to ensure primary care commissioned services provide quality and value for money, including General Practice, community pharmacy, dental and optometric services;
· Support the Assistant Director of Primary Care and the team to ensure that the programmes are planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery;
Working for our organisation
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working under the direction of the Assistant Director of Primary Care and the Senior Primary Care Managers, the commissioning responsibilities will be as follows:
· Support the assurance and delivery of the PCN Directed Enhanced Services and Primary Care Access and Recovery Plan (PCARP) in all of its aspects, including but not limited to:
§ Modern General Pracitce including access model;
§ Workforce;
§ Workload and resilience;
§ Access;
§ Enablers such as IT, Digital and estates;
§ Participation in GP Improvement Programme.
· More broadly support the overall development of General Practice in Derbyshire: work with member practices, Primary Care Networks and GP Provider Board to develop strategy; develop specific schemes and projects, deliver those schemes, monitor and track their performance;
- Support the team to interpret and implement national guidance, developing policies and guidelines as necessary;
- Ensure that practices have the IT and the buildings (estate) that they need to deliver the transformed model of care.
Regardless of the area which a post-holder is working in, all post-holders will be expected to:
· Support the delivery of projects to achieve key ICB targets, including but not limited to, Efficiency schemes; Emergency Planning, Winter Planning, Business Continuity; Operating Plan.
· Link with external agencies as needed including:
§ NHS England;
§ Local Authorities;
§ East Midlands ICB Primary Care Team (hosted by NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB);
§ GP Provider Board;
§ Primary Care Local Professional Committees;
§ Primary Care Network Clinical Leads and Operational Managers.
· Be a key contact for a group of practices and covering as required, supporting the Assistant Directors Primary Care and Senior Management team;
· Have an area of functional expertise, as well as ‘key contact’ role, and to provide support in that area to other key contacts, county-wide;
· Represent ICB on East Midlands region programmes;
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent
- Evidence of continued professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
Other
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing a team without direct line management
- Ability to travel independently across the region and occasionally beyond
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate the behaviours that underpin the ICBs core value of 'One Team'
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gemma Markham
- Job title
- Senior Primary Care Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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