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Five Elms Primary Care Network

PCN Manager

The closing date is 30 September 2025

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Job summary

This role will play a lead role in working in a complex environment on a range of operational, workforce, and service delivery initiatives across the primary care locality.

The PCN Manager will provide strategic and operational support, ensuring effective delivery of the PCN Development Plan and supporting practices with the implementation of PCN priorities. They will establish approaches to decision-making and work with member practices to overcome challenges to implementation across the local population.

Main duties of the job

The PCN Manager will build strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across the locality to ensure collaborative approaches to service development and delivery. In doing so, they will support the integration of services across primary care, community services, social care, mental health, the voluntary sector and secondary care.

This role is outward-looking to help secure resilience and sustainability by actively supporting business development, preparing proposals, and coordinating new service opportunities. The PCN Manager will also play a key role in recruiting, managing, and developing PCN staff, ensuring appropriate training, supervision, and workforce planning.

About us

Five Elms PCN was introduced in 2019 and has since become an integral part of Primary Care servicing its population of 43K patients. Its geographical area covers Bromley, Biggin Hill and Locks Bottom, all in South East London.

The organisation provides clinical and non clinical staff such as GP's, Clinical Pharmacists, Paramedics, Nurses, Physiotherapists, Social Prescribers and Care Coordinators as well as an important administration service all there to assist in the day to day operation of running Enhanced Access clinics and out of hours services for our 5 member Practices.

The PCN Managers role is to manage the whole organisation and the services it provides which is a simplistic way of describing its core function but the detail to this is described fully in the job description.

Details

Date posted

02 September 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Includes outer London HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

3 years

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

A4759-25-0001

Job locations

London Borough Of Bromley

2 Westmoreland Road

Bromley

BR1 1AS


Job description

Job responsibilities

The Job Description for this position is attached. The key responsibilities and duties are found in section 2.

We do ask that all applicants have a minimum of 3 years Primary Care experience or in a similar Health related role with extensive management knowledge and expertise in delivering major health related projects that will be discussed during the interview stage.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Job Description for this position is attached. The key responsibilities and duties are found in section 2.

We do ask that all applicants have a minimum of 3 years Primary Care experience or in a similar Health related role with extensive management knowledge and expertise in delivering major health related projects that will be discussed during the interview stage.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to Degree level or able to demonstrate a period of previously related employment held in a senior management role within a service delivery setting, particularly in the Health Service.

Desirable

  • A recognised qualification in Project Management.

Extra criteria

Essential

  • Be able to speak confidently on a range of commissioning and primary care subjects, with the ability to provide definitive advice on national primary care regulation, policy and development.

Desirable

  • Able to demonstrate that you are a competent user of the whole Microsoft Office group of applications.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of developing primary care provision at scale, for example working with a federation or collaboration of general practices

Desirable

  • Have an understanding of the national policy direction for primary, community and secondary care as evidenced in the Five Year Forward Review together with good practical and conceptual knowledge of healthcare improvement methods and practices
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to Degree level or able to demonstrate a period of previously related employment held in a senior management role within a service delivery setting, particularly in the Health Service.

Desirable

  • A recognised qualification in Project Management.

Extra criteria

Essential

  • Be able to speak confidently on a range of commissioning and primary care subjects, with the ability to provide definitive advice on national primary care regulation, policy and development.

Desirable

  • Able to demonstrate that you are a competent user of the whole Microsoft Office group of applications.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of developing primary care provision at scale, for example working with a federation or collaboration of general practices

Desirable

  • Have an understanding of the national policy direction for primary, community and secondary care as evidenced in the Five Year Forward Review together with good practical and conceptual knowledge of healthcare improvement methods and practices

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Five Elms Primary Care Network

Address

London Borough Of Bromley

2 Westmoreland Road

Bromley

BR1 1AS


Employer's website

https://www.fiveelmspcn.com (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Five Elms Primary Care Network

Address

London Borough Of Bromley

2 Westmoreland Road

Bromley

BR1 1AS


Employer's website

https://www.fiveelmspcn.com (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

PCN Manager

Darren Girling

darren.girling1@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

02 September 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Includes outer London HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

3 years

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

A4759-25-0001

Job locations

London Borough Of Bromley

2 Westmoreland Road

Bromley

BR1 1AS


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