Primary Care Commissioning Manager

Job summary

The North East London Integrated Care Board (NEL ICB) is recruiting to a permanent post of Primary Care Commissioning Manager within the Primary Care Commissioning Team.The Primary Care Commissioning Manager will provide expert leadership and line management to the operations team and work in collaboration with primary care teams at Place, and other internal and external stakeholders within North East London Integrated Care Systems (ICS) to effectively manage general medical service contracts and support the development and delivery of primary care services within the NEL.

The post holder will play an integral role in working in partnership with ICB colleagues to reduce variation in general practice and ensure contractors' compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements to mitigate patient safety risks and deliver value for money. The post holder will provide subject matter expertise to effectively commission primary care and support services, manage contractual changes, support quality improvement across the primary care provider landscape and the delivery of system wide transformation change.

Please note: If you are invited for an interview, this is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 13 August 2024

Main duties of the job

The Primary Care Commissioning Manager will operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment to provide specialist, expert leadership in interpreting and managing GP contractual changes and supporting quality improvement across primary care and supporting primary care transformation change.

• The post holder will be responsible for leading on a defined range of responsibilities. They will be expected to define processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery, ensuring effective communication and engagement throughout.
• Manage and deliver appropriate projects and tasks for the procurement, commissioning, monitoring and decommissioning of primary medical service contracts (APMS/PMS/GMS), presentation of appropriate papers taken through the Primary Care Contracts Sub Committee for decision.
• Undertake appropriate stakeholder and public consultation/engagement on the commissioning, and decommissioning of primary medical services (APMS/GMS/PMS) attending the provider site as necessary.Undertake appropriate consultation/engagement with the Professional body (LMC).
• Provide specialist, expert advice on primary care guidance, regulations and policy in relation to GMS, PMS and APMS contracts, in the context of delegated responsibility from NHS England.

About us

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022.

We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements.

We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.

We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.

Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a 6 months' probation period in line with the Probation Policy.