Primary Care Manager
Job Description
Job summary
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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Interview date: week commencing 10/2/25
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 Yorkshires 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. In total there are 186 GP practices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals working across seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000 voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We work alongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSE partners and other partners to address health inequalities and wider determinants of health in South Yorkshire.
South Yorkshire ICB is a Disability Confident Employer
Job responsibilities
Person specification
Equality and Diversity
Essential
Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
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
Essential
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.
Person Specification
Skills and Capabilities/Other
Essential
- - Communication Skills
- 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.
- - Analytical Skills
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
- - Management Skills
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- -Physical Skills
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
- Used to working in a busy environment.
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.
- Professional calm and efficient manner.
- Effective organizer, influencer and networker.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Completer/Finisher.
- -Planning skills
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
Desirable
- -Planning Skills
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- 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.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- 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.
Equality and Diversity
Essential
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
Experience
Essential
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
Qualifications
Desirable
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Autonomy/Freedom to Act
Essential
- 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 ...
