Primary Care Commissioning Officer

Job summary

As a Primary Care Commissioning Officer, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Primary Care Commissioning to manage commissioning and performance management of GP contracts across the North East London (NEL) area.

The post holder will support the Head of Primary Care and NEL team to ensure that their work stream of programmes are planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery:

Main duties of the job

Support programme work streams, including support the management of the team's work plan, escalating risks and issues, as appropriate

Lead on change projects such as practice closures, relocations and mergers

Manage the Team's business support function, including developing, managing and implementing the team's work plans and sharing best practice/ learning across teams

Report and progress managing contract risks and issues

Support the management of all corporate business returns

Resolving day to day incoming queries, including generic mailbox issues, escalating where appropriate

Lead on managing the process for payments and claims such as quarterly Directed Enhanced Services (DES) claims, locum reimbursement claims, Care Quality Commission (CQC) reimbursement claims

About us

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022.

We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements.

We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.

We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.