General Medical Services (GMS) Contracts Manager: Sponsorship Available

Powys Teaching Health Board

Job summary

Collaborating and negotiating with contractors, service providers and professional committees to identify and achieve service development and improvement, evaluating through performance management and lead the production and deliveryof specific plans and projects to meet the healthcare needs of the local population.

Main duties of the job

Lead contact for resolving contract management issues that arise within primary care. This will involve providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information where there are barriers to understanding oracceptance, which are overcome using developed interpersonal and communication skills.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential

  • Degree or equivalent extensive experience in Primary Care management PLUS experience as follows:-
  • Extensive experience of working in an NHS management position
  • Knowledge of the structure and operation of the National Health Service together with detailed knowledge of the working of an NHS organisation
  • Knowledge of the complex contractual and regulatory framework which supports the relationship between the Health Board and Primary Care providers

Desirable

  • Experience of managing staffing e.g. sick leave, annual leave and appraisals
  • Knowledge of the services for which the Primary, Community Care & Mental Health Directorate is responsible, especially those relating to Primary Care

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in managing staffing. e.g. sick leave, annual leave and appraisals
  • Experience of change management, preferably in connection with Primary Care
  • Experience of working in an environment where both tact and diplomacy has had to be used to overcome resistance to change.
  • Experience of setting up systems and processes, preferably in connection with General Medical Services.
  • Experience and an ability to interpret budgetary and other financial information, preferably relating to Primary Care and to readily identify areas requiring action investigation.
  • Contract management preferably in connection with General Medical Services
  • Experience and ability to prepare and present (both written and oral) detailed reports
  • Experience and ability to take a significant role in the development and implementation of policy, preferably in relation to Primary Care
  • Experience and an ability to prepare, clear, comprehensive plans and funding applications
  • Experience of dealing with sensitive and contentious issues

Desirable

  • Considerable experience of working in an NHS primary care contract management position.

Skills & Attributes

Essential

  • Highly developed interpersonal, presentation and communication skills with the ability to persuade, motivate and negotiate with a wide range of audiences
  • Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload to operate effectively
  • An excellent communicator at all levels within and outside an organisation including the ability to communicate effectively with patients and members of the public
  • Ability to prepare, interpret and analyse management and performance data and audit results and to readily identify areas requiring further action or investigation and improvement
  • A clear thinker capable of scoping a given task and performing it swiftly and accurately
  • Ability to deal with pressure and manage frequent interruptions to work plans ensuring that prioritisation is given to meet appropriate deadlines
  • A willingness to undertake further training and personal development as required
  • An ability to undertake complex contractual negotiations with Primary Care professionals and their representatives
  • An ability to lead conversations with Primary Care professionals and their representatives on matters, often complex, relating to contractual performance, and manage the resultant implications of doing so
  • An ability to use a standard keyboard, together with extensive experience in using Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel

Desirable

  • Some ability to speak, read and/or write Welsh, or an eagerness to learn
  • Experience of joint working with other organisations
  • Ability to audit and evaluate work

other

Essential

  • Demonstrate PTHB Values
  • Flexible approach to work
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Ability to develop and sustain personal relationships with a wide range of individuals and within groups
  • Good time management and work prioritisation
  • Ability to work autonomously and self-direct
  • Ability to drive, access to own transport and willingness to travel

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 23 August 2026

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