Job summary
c£50k depending on experience.
The partners are looking for a warm, well-organised, efficient and professional manager with excellent people skills & financial acumen to take over from the outgoing practice manager & continue to provide leadership to the practice staff. The role combines the strategic & the operational & is important in creating a culture of the practice as a respectful, safe and happy place in which to work and learn. Relationships within and without the practice are key.
If
you are shortlisted, you will be invited to attend a preliminary interview
on 27th
November/4th December 2020.
Main duties of the job
The candidate will need a sound knowledge of business, finance and people management and have excellent organisational, analytical, leadership and communication skills. We are looking for someone with NHS experience, energy and wisdom to keep Paddington Green Health Centre sailing happily ahead and are committed to supporting the successful candidate in their new and wide-ranging management role.
Paddington Green Health Centre is an equal opportunities employer.
About us
Our award-winning NHS GP practice in the heart of London is looking for a new Practice Manager to join the senior leadership team. We are a close-knit, enthusiastic, friendly, supportive and stable team, and we provide excellent care to a culturally diverse population of 9500 just off the Edgware Road in W2. Our team members have leadership roles in the GP Network, CCG, CQC and are involved in teaching and training clinical learners at all levels.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Practice Manager has overall responsibility for Human
Resources, Financial Management, Information Management and Technology,
Facilities Management, Service Management and Compliance.
The post-holder manages and coordinates all aspects of the practice's
day-to-day business ensuring the practice achieves its long-term strategies.
Additionally, the post-holder will engage in the wider primary and community care community,
especially in the Primary Care Network.
Please see the attached job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Practice Manager has overall responsibility for Human
Resources, Financial Management, Information Management and Technology,
Facilities Management, Service Management and Compliance.
The post-holder manages and coordinates all aspects of the practice's
day-to-day business ensuring the practice achieves its long-term strategies.
Additionally, the post-holder will engage in the wider primary and community care community,
especially in the Primary Care Network.
Please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a minimum of A levels or equivalent
- Evidence of a commitment to continuing professional development and training in different areas of management
Desirable
- Relevant business, management, HR or finance qualification or degree
Experience
Essential
- Experience of, and success at, motivating and managing people
- Experience of working in teams and able to promote a team spirit
- Experience of working in the NHS.
- Working in an IT-dependent environment
- Managing financial budgets and financial forecasting
- Customer/patient care
- Premises and facilities management
- Project management experience
Desirable
- Working in healthcare
- Working with a partnership
Skills
Essential
- Leadership skills
- Team-working skills
- Excellent inter-personal skills
- Financial acumen
- Delegation skills
- A solutions focussed approach
- Ability to develop systems to solve organisational problems
- Makes things happen
- Good communicator (oral and written)
- Ability to listen and empathise
- Mentoring/coaching
- Competent with use of office IT
- Chairmanship and co-ordination
- Good time management
- Problem solving
- Negotiating
- Able to manage change
- Multi-tasking skills
- Networking
- Facilitation
- Managing conflict
Qualities
Essential
- Organised & decisive in implementing a vision
- Empathy for the healthcare/public service environment
- Self-motivated able to work with minimal direction
- Ability to work steadily towards goals regardless of distractions
- Adaptable, innovative, forward looking
- Enthusiasm, with energy and drive
- Gains respect by example
- Honest, caring and sympathetic
- Good sense of humour, personable
- Hard working, reliable and resourceful
- Willing to work flexible hours as necessary
- Considered, steady approach
- Clear thinking
- Diplomacy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a minimum of A levels or equivalent
- Evidence of a commitment to continuing professional development and training in different areas of management
Desirable
- Relevant business, management, HR or finance qualification or degree
Experience
Essential
- Experience of, and success at, motivating and managing people
- Experience of working in teams and able to promote a team spirit
- Experience of working in the NHS.
- Working in an IT-dependent environment
- Managing financial budgets and financial forecasting
- Customer/patient care
- Premises and facilities management
- Project management experience
Desirable
- Working in healthcare
- Working with a partnership
Skills
Essential
- Leadership skills
- Team-working skills
- Excellent inter-personal skills
- Financial acumen
- Delegation skills
- A solutions focussed approach
- Ability to develop systems to solve organisational problems
- Makes things happen
- Good communicator (oral and written)
- Ability to listen and empathise
- Mentoring/coaching
- Competent with use of office IT
- Chairmanship and co-ordination
- Good time management
- Problem solving
- Negotiating
- Able to manage change
- Multi-tasking skills
- Networking
- Facilitation
- Managing conflict
Qualities
Essential
- Organised & decisive in implementing a vision
- Empathy for the healthcare/public service environment
- Self-motivated able to work with minimal direction
- Ability to work steadily towards goals regardless of distractions
- Adaptable, innovative, forward looking
- Enthusiasm, with energy and drive
- Gains respect by example
- Honest, caring and sympathetic
- Good sense of humour, personable
- Hard working, reliable and resourceful
- Willing to work flexible hours as necessary
- Considered, steady approach
- Clear thinking
- Diplomacy
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
