Practice Manager

Job summary

Do you have the vision, skills and energy to lead our friendly supportive team navigating us through the challenging landscape of general practice whilst also sharing our ethos to deliver excellent patient centred care?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Practice Manager to lead our successful established team at the Lambert Medical Centre, Thirsk.

We are looking for someone to lead and manage our Practice, helping us to meet our objectives, whilst maintaining our strong values of providing a responsive, safe, and high-quality service for our patients, in a supportive and efficient environment. We strive to ensure that our team can work in a trusting and fulfilling environment in which they can develop, learn, and thrive.

Salary £45,000 - £55,000 depending upon experience

Applications by email with CV and covering letter to sallytyrer@nhs.net and kay.smith21@nhs.net

Informal discussions and visits are welcome

Closing date 08.09.2024 - Interviews 19.09.2024

Main duties of the job

You must be experienced, dynamic, highly organised and enthusiastic, with outstanding leadership skills, a good head for business and a large heart for people with excellent communication and team skills. You will have vision, be adaptable, and conscientious. The successful candidate will work closely with the Partners, supported by excellent administrative and clinical teams, to ensure the smooth day to day running of the practice, fulfilling all necessary management duties as agreed with the Partnership.

GMS Practice

List size of 8500 patients

Rated Good by CQC (Outstanding for Caring)

High QoF achievement

Dispensary (provision to 40% patients)

GP Training Practice

HYMS Medical student teaching practice

We are part of Hambleton South PCN in which the practice managers enjoy a supportive and collaborative working relationship, and also part of Heartbeat Alliance GP Federation.

About us

The Lambert Medical Centre is a well established practice offering patient services from its partnership owned premises in Thirsk town centre, a semi rural market town.We offer services to those living in Thirsk and the surrounding villages. We have a stable patient list size of 8600 and we dispense medication to approximately 40% of our list. There is an excellent range of housing and schools nearby with many local activities and the Yorkshire Moors and Dales on our doorstep.

We are a stable 4 partner GMS practice with an enthusiasm to develop our practice further. We are rated good by CQC (with an outstanding in 'caring'). We have a strong patient focus, with our ethos and values being rooted in delivering care for our community that we and our families would be happy to receive. We consider ourselves a forward thinking practice and enjoy good links with other organisations. We work in collaboration with our PCN (Hambleton South), neighbouring practices, our GP Federation and our local community to ensure we deliver high quality healthcare services in a safe environment which is welcoming, caring and accessible to all. We are a training practice and we also have good links with Hull York Medical School who we partner with to deliver medical student teaching. Some of our GP partners have additional outside interests which we feel adds further value and experience to our leadership team. These include: GP Appraiser, GP Mentor, PCN Clinical Director, LMC Chair.

Employer details

Employer name

Lambert Medical Centre

Address

Chapel Street

Thirsk

North Yorkshire

YO7 1LU

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Lambert Medical Centre

Address

Chapel Street

Thirsk

North Yorkshire

YO7 1LU

Employer's website

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

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