PCN Manager Horton Primary Care Network

Essential

• Self-motivated with strong communication skills, an enabler and forward thinker
• Able to build and maintain relationships whilst maintaining appropriate professional boundaries - essential for working with the ten member practices
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from diverse communities
• Able to work in a changing environment
• Have an insight into own learning and development needs
• Requires a flexible approach and a need to be highly motivated
• Have developed personal resiliance

Essential

• Specialist knowledge of working in an administrative and business environment and its systems and practices including projects, business/strategic planning and information management
• Demonstrable experience of effective planning and organisational skills to deliver targets to deadlines
• Experience of successfully developing and implementing projects.
• A minimum of two years experience of working in a senior management role

Desirable

• Knowledge of primary care contracting and commissioning
• Experience of working in primary care or the wider NHS
• An understanding of the specific health inequalities and demographic challenges facing the Bradford City ICB area
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with multiple GP practices simultaneously

Essential

• High level of professional interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to persuade and negotiate.
• High calibre of technical literacy; Microsoft Applications eg Word, Excel, Microsoft Teams, Outlook.
• Experience of general practice clinical systems and reports (ideally SystmOne)
• Proactive and a natural leader to promote new thinking and ways of working
• Supporting colleagues to work as an effective team and develop their own skills.
• Excellent motivational skills to ensure completion of tasks on time and able to effectively influence others to complete agreed actions
• Ability to analyse/collate and interpret information and present results in a clear and concise manner
• Effective problem solver and strong negotiation skills
• Ability to use initiative, make decisions and solve problems independently and to know when to refer upwards
• Ability to provide and receive sensitive information in a confidential manner, resolve queries and conflict by using tact, diplomacy and emotional intelligence
• Ability to manage and prioritise own workload and work unsupervised
• Ability to engage with external agencies and stakeholders to represent the PCNs interests