Practice Business Manager (Part Time)

NHS; Halifax; On-site; GBP 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A UK-based healthcare provider is seeking a highly skilled Practice Business Manager to lead the Beechwood Medical Centre team. This role involves strategic leadership, people management, and financial oversight to ensure high-quality healthcare delivery. Ideal candidates will have experience in NHS settings and strong leadership skills. The position is part-time, offering a salary of £30,000 per year. Located in Halifax, it requires a commitment to enhancing practice performance and patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience in NHS/Primary Care General Practice is essential.
• Strong leadership and strategic planning skills.
• Good decision maker.
• Proven experience in financial management, including budgeting and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the practice in strategic and operational planning.
• Manage HR operations and ensure smooth daily operations.
• Monitor and manage financial resources including budgeting.
• Ensure compliance with Care Quality Commission standards.

Skills

Leadership and strategic planning

Financial management

Excellent communication

Decision making

Common sense

Education

Degree in healthcare or business

Leadership/Management qualification

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and highly motivated, forward‑thinking Practice Business Manager to lead our dedicated team at Beechwood Medical Centre. The successful candidate will ultimately ensure the efficient management of all resources, the delivery of top‑tier healthcare services, and the ongoing development of our strategic business goals. The role will eventually involve overseeing financial operations, managing staff and HR, and driving change within the practice to maintain and enhance our high service quality. You will work closely with the HR and Finance Manager and also be a board member of the North Halifax PCN.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership:
  • Lead the practice in strategic and operational planning, ensuring alignment with our long‑term goals.
  • Drive change management initiatives to enhance practice performance and patient care.
  • Prepare and present business development plans (where needed) to the Partnership.
  • Act as a focal point for clinicians and administration, ensuring a happy and focused team working a sensible work/life balance.
  • Champion the practice, its values, and its presence in the community.
• People Management:
  • Manage HR operations, ensuring staff are supported, motivated, and able to perform to their best abilities. Act as an HR lead and advisor for the North Halifax PCN until the HR and Finance Manager has fully retired.
  • Ensure smooth daily operations (through the Practice Operations Manager), enabling patients to access high‑quality care.
• Resource Management:
  • Monitor and manage financial resources, including budgeting, cash‑flow forecasting, bank accounts, and maximizing income until the HR and Finance Manager has fully retired.
  • Optimise the use of physical resources, addressing any issues with premises or facilities promptly and keeping the premises to a good and clean standard.
• Quality Improvement:
  • Ensure compliance with Care Quality Commission standards and other clinical governance requirements and aim to be the best.
  • Conduct regular clinical meetings, financial meetings, training, and practice meetings.

About Us

Beechwood Medical Centre is a training practice of over 10,500 patients. We are a single‑site practice rated by the CQC as "GOOD" and are committed to delivering the type of general practice expected by our patients. Our team includes two partners, four salaried GPs, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, several PCN‑based clinicians, as well as Practice Nurses and a Health Care Assistant. An FY2 doctor and two registrar doctors also work here. We are very proud of what we have achieved and want a new Manager to take the practice to the next level.

Details

Date posted: 18 December 2025

Pay scheme: Other

Salary: £30,000 a year (equivalent to £10,000 per day for 3 days a week)

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part‑time

Reference number: A3961‑25‑0012

Job Locations

60a Keighley Road
Ovenden
Halifax
West Yorkshire
HX2 8AL

Person Specification

Qualifications (Essential)

• Educated to a degree level in healthcare or business (desirable)
• Leadership and/or Management qualification (desirable) but not essential
• Experience in NHS/Primary Care General Practice is essential.
• Strong leadership and strategic planning skills.
• Good decision maker.
• Proven experience in financial management, including budgeting and forecasting.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to get people on‑side.
• We are looking for someone with lots of common sense. We always encourage people to work in a simple but effective way and keep things simple.

Experience (Essential)

• We think it is essential to have experience in General Practice of some level, ideally in a management or operational role.
• If you do not have any General Practice Experience, then it is unlikely that you will be successful in obtaining an interview.

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

Name: Beechwood Medical Centre

Address: 60a Keighley Road, Ovenden, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX2 8AL

Employer's website: https://www.beechwoodmedicalcentre.co.uk/