NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
The South Yorkshire Primary Care team is currently seeking a Primary Care Manager to work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the ICB to lead the delivery of primary care commissioning and the Primary Care Strategy.
This role is a fantastic career development opportunity - primary care delivers around 90% of NHS activity and is at the forefront of efforts to improve healthcare and reduce health inequalities, being at the centre of national policy to improve access.
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Main duties of the job
The Primary Care Manager will support Primary Care transformation and delivery in accordance with the Joint Forward Plan and the ICB Primary Care strategy.
The role supports the business in driving transformation as well as value for money in planning, commissioning and service redesign. The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop a strong service delivery.
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for developing plans which meet the health needs of South Yorkshire's 1.4 million population, managing the NHS budget and arranging for the provision of all NHS health services in the region. The South Yorkshire Primary Care team works across the system and geography of South Yorkshire, working closely with the ICB teams for Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster to deliver national and local priorities.
About us
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees health and social care for a population of 1.4m people. Working through our 4 places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on the strengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our local communities to deliver our four key aims of Improving outcomes in population health and healthcare; Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; Enhancing productivity and value for money; and Helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.
Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broader health, public health, and social care needs of the population across South Yorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and care services that meet the needs of the local population.
Job responsibilities
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
* Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
* Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
* Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
* Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
* Member of relevant professional body.
Skills and Capabilities
* Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
* Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
* Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
* Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options.
* Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
Values and Behaviours
* Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes.
* Demonstrably involves patients and the public in their work.
* Consistently puts clinicians at the heart of decision making.
* Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
* Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
* Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation.
* Actively develops themselves and others.
Experience
* Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
Qualifications
* Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Autonomy/Freedom to Act
* Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
* Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
* Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
* Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation).
Employer name
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
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