Are you passionate about health and social care and looking for a role that offers flexibility and growth? At North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we value work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid working. Enjoy a supportive team environment, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional development. Apply now to make a difference in our community!
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The Primary Care Manager will carry out operational duties managing the commissioning and assurance of Pharmacy and Optometry services across the North East and North Cumbria. This role is key in the NENC Primary Care team and will work in partnership with a range of internal and external stakeholders (Local Representative Committees, HWB's) to deliver high quality services for the local populations. The manager will operationally deliver a comprehensive assurance system, contract manage providers, and assure provision.
Job responsibilities
Project Management:
1. Contribute to performance improvement, taking a lead for identified areas.
2. Provide coordination of and participate in relevant working groups and provide project advice, expertise, and support where requested.
3. Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on own portfolio.
4. Work with members of the Team to investigate the causes of any variance from plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions.
5. Management of a risk and issues tracking mechanism and the resolution and escalation processes.
People Management: Manage staff, undertaking appraisals, and managing any employee relations issues.
Information Management: Devise and provide improvements to current management information, analysing, reporting, and suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes. Ensure timely and accurate detailed information analysis and reporting to management on agreed areas of work.
Planning and Organisation: Contribute to the strategic planning of team projects, identifying interdependencies, and potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary. Contribute to short, medium, and long-term business plans.
Policy and Service Development: Develop policies and procedures in own work function with an impact on the wider organisation, as required. Contribute to the development of an integrated approach to service management.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to Post-graduate degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
* Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
* Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices, and procurement.
* Understanding of the public sector.
* Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project.
Experience
* Experience of managing a team.
* Demonstrable specialist knowledge in a relevant discipline.
* Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
* Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
* Experience of managing risks and reporting.
* Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.
* Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
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.
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