Practice Manager

Application Deadline: 31 October 2025

Department: Senior Management

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: South East London Sites

Description

For Ambitious Operators Looking to make an Impact

We’re looking for a sharp, organised, and operationally-minded leader to take ownership of our multidisciplinary teams at Penrose Health. While the title says “Practice Manager,” this is a role focused on performance, productivity, and people development — not admin, rotas, or patient queries.
You’ll manage a growing multidisciplinary team of Physician Associates, Clinical Pharmacists, Nursing team and others. Your mission: to make this team high-performing, accountable, and impactful — so they deliver the best care to patients, while operating within clear financial and productivity frameworks.


You’ll work in close partnership with our clinical supervisors and AHP team leads, who provide clinical oversight, supervision, and escalation support. Your role is to bring the operational grip and delivery mindset — while your clinical counterparts bring the professional expertise. Together, you’ll make this team thrive.

This role will suit someone who thrives on structure, delivery, and data — someone who enjoys coaching teams, setting targets, tracking progress, and helping people grow. It’s ideal for someone who may have managed clinicians or service teams before and is looking to step into a more strategic, operational role without leaving the ground behind.

You’ll reporting directly to the Operations Director and the Partners to shape how this team runs — from budget and recruitment to 1:1s and audits. You’ll bring clarity, grip, and follow-through — and in return, we’ll give you autonomy, challenge, and the chance to make real change

Key Responsibilities

Team Management & Performance

• Line manage a diverse team of AHPs — with the support of Clinical leads for each team.
• Set clear expectations, conduct regular 1:1s, and support development through feedback and coaching
• Handle performance conversations and ensure that every team member knows what good looks like
• Identify and address performance issues early, fairly, and decisively

• Track and improve team output: number of patients seen, quality of documentation, follow-up handling
• Work with the data team to build simple, actionable dashboards and reports
• Spot bottlenecks and inefficiencies — and fix them without waiting to be asked
• Ensure the team is operating at full capacity, with effective use of sessions and minimal waste

• Manage the team’s budget: monitor spend, plan capacity, and avoid overspend
• Build simple models to forecast resource needs and support business cases where required
• Help ensure our AHPs deliver maximum patient value per £ spent

• Support hiring, onboarding, and induction of new AHPs
• Work with the Head of People & Performance to design and deliver high-quality L&D
• Build a culture of accountability, openness, and delivery — not excuses or coasting

• Act as the bridge between AHPs, GPs, site managers, and clinical leads to coordinate workflows and patient care
• Partner with clinical supervisors to ensure clear role boundaries, safe practice, and aligned performance standards
• Support changes to triage, escalation protocols, and appointment systems
• Ensure AHPs are integrated into the broader clinical workforce — not working in silos

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Who You Are

• Organised, hands-on, and relentlessly focused on outcomes
• Great at holding people accountable — but with clarity and care, not control or blame
• Able to switch between the detail and the big picture — and keep things moving forward
• A calm, confident communicator who gets stuff done and brings others with them

• Managed people in a healthcare, NHS, or service-based environment — especially clinicians or practitioners
• Delivered performance improvements in real teams — not just reported on them
• Built or improved processes for productivity, reporting, or team development
• Ideally managed budgets, rotas, or service capacity — or have confidence to pick this up quickly

• Strong Excel/Sheets capability — can use or build simple trackers, budgets, and reports
• Able to coach and performance-manage team members with clarity and fairness
• Good understanding of primary care (desirable but not essential)
• A genuine interest in getting the best out of people — and backing it up with follow-through

Benefits

Why This Role?

• Clarity — a focused role where you’ll own one team, one mission, and see your impact
• Autonomy — freedom to shape how the team works and improve what’s broken
• Growth — work closely with senior leaders and expand your remit as we scale
• Challenge — this team is central to how we deliver care at Penrose, and we need it to be great

What We Offer

• Salary: Competitive depending on experience
• Hybrid working (minimum 3 days on-site)
• A chance to make real change in a fast-moving, ambitious primary care organisation