Job Description

The Primary Care and Community Services - National Advisor is a key part of the Primary Care and Community Services Senior Leadership Team. The post holder will be responsible for a number of key priorities across primary care and community services, with a particular focus on reform.

The post holder will advise at the highest of levels and design and deliver a complex, multi-faceted reform programme, with initial focus on reform in general practice. This requires exceptional stakeholder management skills and a deep understanding of primary care and community services.

The post holder will also lead areas of strategic importance on behalf of the organisation pertaining to PCCS, such as primary care data, working in collaboration with DHSC and deliver specific strategic programmes to advance the reform agenda, such as the PCN test sites programme.

The job description and person specification are an outline of the immediate tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The post holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

Key Responsibilities

• To promote effective integration of primary and community services and work across NHSE in line with the operating framework.
• Delivery of the community recovery and integrations priorities.
• Development of initiatives to support recovery of community care waiting list.
• Delivery of the proactive care framework.
• Delivery of National End of Life priorities.
• Delivery of initiatives in community health service programmes that support the primary care and UEC priorities.
• Identify the impact of community health services to upstream care and develop longer term system resilience.
• Improve access to community services through pathway development and quality improvement.

The NHS England Board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care.
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation.
• Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Wilkes Job title: Chief of Staff Email address: laura.wilkes2@nhs.net