Stour Surgery

PCN Strategic Business Manager (Fixed Term)

The closing date is 31 December 2025

Job summary

Christchurch Primary Care Network (PCN) is seeking a forward-thinking, experienced Strategic PCN Business Manager for a 6-month fixed-term contract, with the possibility of extension. The successful candidate will provide innovative, high-level strategic leadership to the PCN Clinical Director and Board, supporting the effective operation, growth, and long-term development of the network in line with primary care objectives.

Main duties of the job

Job Responsibilities:

  • Develop and deliver the PCNs strategy and business plan alongside the Clinical Director, aligning with the PCNs vision and goals.
  • Lead workforce planning, recruitment, induction, and ongoing management of all PCN staff.
  • Design and implement services to meet DES requirements and support new service models
  • Coordinate governance frameworks to uphold quality, safety, and risk management standards.
  • Develop business cases for new services and manage legal, financial, and contractual obligations
  • Act as the main point of contact for Practice Managers and GPs on project delivery
  • Oversee data collection, performance reporting, and ensure contractual compliance
  • Network with other PCNs to share best practice and drive improvement
  • Coordinate PCN meetings, communications, and engagement with stakeholders including patient representatives

What were looking for:

An experienced healthcare or business leader with:

  • A strong background in healthcare management or strategic leadership
  • Proven ability to develop and deliver business plans and manage complex budgets
  • In-depth knowledge of PCNs, the DES, and healthcare governance
  • A track record of leading change, improving performance, and influencing stakeholders
  • Excellent communication, planning, and organisational skills

About us

Why Join Us?

  • Be part of an innovative and evolving primary care network committed to high standards and patient-focused care.
  • Collaborate with leading clinical professionals across multiple practices.
  • Opportunity to shape and develop strategic services impacting community health.
  • Supportive working environment with flexible hours.
  • Competitive salary and NHS pension.
  • Company sick pay.

Details

Date posted

10 December 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£28 to £35 an hour Depends on experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A4600-25-0005

Job locations

49 Barrack Road

Christchurch

Dorset

BH23 1PA


Job description

Job responsibilities

The PCN Strategic Business Manager will, alongside the Clinical Director, lead our developing multidisciplinary teams within Christchurch Primary Care Network.

Covering the following practices: Highcliffe Medical Practice, Christchurch Medical Practice, Stour Surgery and The Farmhouse Surgery.

Job Summary:

  • Provide strategic, comprehensive, innovative and professional management support to the PCN Clinical Director and Board to ensure that the PCN operates effectively as a business.
  • Ensure the PCN develops strategically to meet the long-term objectives of primary care networks.
  • Understand the PCN Network DES and develop/implement services as necessary to meet its requirements
  • Develop and maintain a strategy and a business plan for the PCN
  • Manage any existing contracts and services
  • Ensure the network manages within the agreed budget
  • Ensure delivery of cost-effective services within agreed budgets.
  • Ensure fair distribution of resources across the PCN practices
  • Ensure best practice is followed in maintaining both professional and clinical standards.
  • Work in close partnership with clinical leaders to deliver quality service, performance targets and KPIs
  • Ensure effective governance in place to ensure quality, safety and manage risk

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

  • Responsible for developing, along with the Clinical Director, the strategy and business plan for the PCN to achieve shared vision and agreed outcomes
  • Network and benchmark with other PCNs to share and implement best practice
  • Responsible for developing the organisational structure for the PCN; this includes workforce planning and agreeing this with the commissioners
  • Responsible for the recruitment, induction, training and management of all Network staff.
  • Responsible for developing and implementing effective and efficient services to meet the DES requirements. Ensuring project plans are in place and monitored to ensure key milestones are met
  • Responsible for developing business cases for potential new services to be delivered by the Network
  • First point of contact for Practice Managers and GPs with regard to delivery of local projects and services
  • Manage contractual requirements, legal and financial requirements of the organisation.
  • Co-ordinate the delivery of all Network services and their reporting submissions
  • Set up data collection, analyse data and collate feedback for reporting requirements both within the PCN and externally, where required. This should demonstrate contractually compliance and performance improvement.
  • Key member of project planning and implementation of all new models of service delivery
  • Organise PCN board meetings, ensuring wide-ranging membership.
  • Plan agendas, speakers, ensure all actions are followed up and completed in a timely manner.
  • Responsible for communication across the PCN practices and liaison with patient representative

Finance:
  • Managing and co-ordinating all resources within agreed financial budgets
  • Responsible for regular financial reporting and forecasting to the Board to ensure the PCN manages within the agreed budget
  • Responsible for accurate submissions, claims and contractual requirements.
  • Responsible for financial flows to practices.

Organisational:

  • Propose strategic and operational planning processes to the Board to support objectives.
  • Attend and contribute to all relevant meetings both internally and externally
  • Manage the agenda, ensuring all minutes and actions are followed up accordingly for all Network meetings
  • Organise PCN events e.g. PLT/Educational Events.
  • Ensure all information is uploaded onto shared network

Risk Management:

  • Effectively and appropriately plan for, monitor and manage all potential risks, escalating risks and concerns promptly.
  • Develop effective complaints and significant events processes across the PCN and ensure they are used appropriately if required.
  • Ensure activities and services comply with organisational requirements for safety, quality management, confidentiality and data protection, safeguarding, duty of candour, general duty of care, regulatory requirements and other legal stipulations.

IM&T:

  • Ensure compliance with the GDPR and FOI along with other relevant legislation and professional information management standards such as GMC/BMA and LMC guidance

Working Relationships:

  • Work as a flexible member of the PCN, providing support to other team members when necessary.
  • Take an active role in the development and embedding of culture, values and reputation as providers of high-quality services.
  • Encourage and support staff to collaborate through sharing information and intelligence across different activities.

Equality and Diversity:

  • Support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
  • Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
  • Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
  • Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feeling priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development:

  • Participate in any training and development programme required as part of this employment, to include:
  • Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
  • Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skill and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
  • Training may need to be undertaken outside of normal practice hours, and off site.

Quality:

Strive to maintain quality and will:

  • Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
  • Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
  • Work effectively with individuals in other agencies.
  • Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

Ensure effective communications are maintained within the PCN and across all stakeholder organisations. Work across all practices to ensure effective PCN communications to all patients and staff.

Represent the PCN effectively and professionally to a wide range of patients, stakeholders, members and partners.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The PCN Strategic Business Manager will, alongside the Clinical Director, lead our developing multidisciplinary teams within Christchurch Primary Care Network.

Covering the following practices: Highcliffe Medical Practice, Christchurch Medical Practice, Stour Surgery and The Farmhouse Surgery.

Job Summary:

  • Provide strategic, comprehensive, innovative and professional management support to the PCN Clinical Director and Board to ensure that the PCN operates effectively as a business.
  • Ensure the PCN develops strategically to meet the long-term objectives of primary care networks.
  • Understand the PCN Network DES and develop/implement services as necessary to meet its requirements
  • Develop and maintain a strategy and a business plan for the PCN
  • Manage any existing contracts and services
  • Ensure the network manages within the agreed budget
  • Ensure delivery of cost-effective services within agreed budgets.
  • Ensure fair distribution of resources across the PCN practices
  • Ensure best practice is followed in maintaining both professional and clinical standards.
  • Work in close partnership with clinical leaders to deliver quality service, performance targets and KPIs
  • Ensure effective governance in place to ensure quality, safety and manage risk

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

  • Responsible for developing, along with the Clinical Director, the strategy and business plan for the PCN to achieve shared vision and agreed outcomes
  • Network and benchmark with other PCNs to share and implement best practice
  • Responsible for developing the organisational structure for the PCN; this includes workforce planning and agreeing this with the commissioners
  • Responsible for the recruitment, induction, training and management of all Network staff.
  • Responsible for developing and implementing effective and efficient services to meet the DES requirements. Ensuring project plans are in place and monitored to ensure key milestones are met
  • Responsible for developing business cases for potential new services to be delivered by the Network
  • First point of contact for Practice Managers and GPs with regard to delivery of local projects and services
  • Manage contractual requirements, legal and financial requirements of the organisation.
  • Co-ordinate the delivery of all Network services and their reporting submissions
  • Set up data collection, analyse data and collate feedback for reporting requirements both within the PCN and externally, where required. This should demonstrate contractually compliance and performance improvement.
  • Key member of project planning and implementation of all new models of service delivery
  • Organise PCN board meetings, ensuring wide-ranging membership.
  • Plan agendas, speakers, ensure all actions are followed up and completed in a timely manner.
  • Responsible for communication across the PCN practices and liaison with patient representative

Finance:
  • Managing and co-ordinating all resources within agreed financial budgets
  • Responsible for regular financial reporting and forecasting to the Board to ensure the PCN manages within the agreed budget
  • Responsible for accurate submissions, claims and contractual requirements.
  • Responsible for financial flows to practices.

Organisational:

  • Propose strategic and operational planning processes to the Board to support objectives.
  • Attend and contribute to all relevant meetings both internally and externally
  • Manage the agenda, ensuring all minutes and actions are followed up accordingly for all Network meetings
  • Organise PCN events e.g. PLT/Educational Events.
  • Ensure all information is uploaded onto shared network

Risk Management:

  • Effectively and appropriately plan for, monitor and manage all potential risks, escalating risks and concerns promptly.
  • Develop effective complaints and significant events processes across the PCN and ensure they are used appropriately if required.
  • Ensure activities and services comply with organisational requirements for safety, quality management, confidentiality and data protection, safeguarding, duty of candour, general duty of care, regulatory requirements and other legal stipulations.

IM&T:

  • Ensure compliance with the GDPR and FOI along with other relevant legislation and professional information management standards such as GMC/BMA and LMC guidance

Working Relationships:

  • Work as a flexible member of the PCN, providing support to other team members when necessary.
  • Take an active role in the development and embedding of culture, values and reputation as providers of high-quality services.
  • Encourage and support staff to collaborate through sharing information and intelligence across different activities.

Equality and Diversity:

  • Support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
  • Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
  • Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
  • Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feeling priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development:

  • Participate in any training and development programme required as part of this employment, to include:
  • Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
  • Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skill and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
  • Training may need to be undertaken outside of normal practice hours, and off site.

Quality:

Strive to maintain quality and will:

  • Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
  • Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
  • Work effectively with individuals in other agencies.
  • Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

Ensure effective communications are maintained within the PCN and across all stakeholder organisations. Work across all practices to ensure effective PCN communications to all patients and staff.

Represent the PCN effectively and professionally to a wide range of patients, stakeholders, members and partners.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • At least 3 years experience at senior management level.
  • Experience within a health sector at a management level.
  • Experience of working within a senior leadership team, developing and implementing strategies aligned to organisational vision and values.
  • Strong knowledge of financial management budget planning and monitoring (forecasting).
  • Strong knowledge of project/service implementation.
  • Strong experience of business planning.
  • Experience of networking and benchmarking to implement best practice.
  • Track record of leading change, challenging and influencing others to work differently with positive business benefits.
  • Experience of managing people. Strong track record of supporting and developing people.
  • Excellent project management skills; can multi-task, work calmly under pressure and deliver projects from inception to evaluation within tight deadlines.

Desirable

  • A recognised management qualification to degree level, or equivalent.
  • Strong record of change management.
  • Understanding of the NHS, specifically knowledge of national direction of travel/five year forward view.
  • Knowledge of primary care contacts GMS/DES/LIS/QOF.
  • Experience of managing both clinical and admin staff.
  • Experience of partnership working and delivering projects across different organisations.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • At least 3 years experience at senior management level.
  • Experience within a health sector at a management level.
  • Experience of working within a senior leadership team, developing and implementing strategies aligned to organisational vision and values.
  • Strong knowledge of financial management budget planning and monitoring (forecasting).
  • Strong knowledge of project/service implementation.
  • Strong experience of business planning.
  • Experience of networking and benchmarking to implement best practice.
  • Track record of leading change, challenging and influencing others to work differently with positive business benefits.
  • Experience of managing people. Strong track record of supporting and developing people.
  • Excellent project management skills; can multi-task, work calmly under pressure and deliver projects from inception to evaluation within tight deadlines.

Desirable

  • A recognised management qualification to degree level, or equivalent.
  • Strong record of change management.
  • Understanding of the NHS, specifically knowledge of national direction of travel/five year forward view.
  • Knowledge of primary care contacts GMS/DES/LIS/QOF.
  • Experience of managing both clinical and admin staff.
  • Experience of partnership working and delivering projects across different organisations.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Stour Surgery

Address

49 Barrack Road

Christchurch

Dorset

BH23 1PA


Employer's website

https://www.stoursurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Stour Surgery

Address

49 Barrack Road

Christchurch

Dorset

BH23 1PA


Employer's website

https://www.stoursurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Practice Manager (Stour Surgery)

Bethany Rolph

beth.rolph@dorsetgp.nhs.uk

01202464500

Details

Date posted

10 December 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£28 to £35 an hour Depends on experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A4600-25-0005

Job locations

49 Barrack Road

Christchurch

Dorset

BH23 1PA


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