Practice Manager - Brighton

Sussex Primary Care; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Practice Manager to oversee day-to-day operations and financial management at The Avenue Surgery in Brighton. The ideal candidate will have experience in managing primary care services, strategic development, and financial oversight. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential for this role. Competitive salary offered.

Qualifications

• Experience managing primary care services.
• Significant experience in financial systems and payroll.
• Ability to monitor standards of care across services.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for operational management of the practice.
• Ensure robust financial management and balanced budget.
• Lead implementation of service quality improvement plans.

Skills

Financial management

Clinical operational performance analysis

Business planning

Leading recruitment processes

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Degree in Management

Tools

Excel

Business Objects

Job description

We are seeking to appoint a Practice Manager to work at The Avenue Surgery in Brighton. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operational and financial management of the practices, including:

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the operational management of the practice
• Responsible for robust financial management, maximizing income, and ensuring a balanced budget position
• Delivery of key targets in relation to contractual requirements, service performance, governance, quality, and workforce planning
• Responsible for ensuring the workforce skill mix is in line with expected benchmarked levels, and responsible for the recruitment processes
• Lead on the implementation of agreed strategic and service developments
• Accountable for delivery of service quality improvement plans
• CQC Registered Manager

Qualifications

• You will ideally already have experience of managing primary care services, with significant experience of monitoring, analysing and assessing clinical operational performance, managing complex budgets, and working within a highly dynamic and complex environment.
• Degree in Management or significant equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience
• Experience in Business planning
• Ability to handle financial systems for the practice, including payroll
• Experience of managing primary care services
• Significant experience of monitoring, analysing and assessing clinical operational performance
• Ability to monitor and maintain standards of care across a range of services
• Experience of managing patient expectations, influencing commissioning decisions and developing business cases
• Experience of working in partnership with other agencies, service users, carers, the public, regulators, local scrutiny bodies etc
• Experience of managing risk within a complex operating environment including, risk assessment, risk mitigation and risk management
• Assertive and confident to challenge poor conduct and behaviours
• Highly developed IT and analytical skills particularly in Excel and preferably building complex reports using Business Objects or other similar business intelligence reporting package
• Excellent communication skills and proven experience of managing successful relationships with peers and clients

Sussex Primary Care runs a number of GP Practices across Sussex providing excellent primary care in the heart of the community. We are a learning organisation that listens to our team of staff, patients and partners to guide our future. At the heart of our vision are our patients and their needs.