Practice Manager

Job Summary

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice in Colchester are currently seeking a practice manager to lead our successful established team. We are looking for someone to lead and manage our practice, helping us to meet our objectives, whilst maintaining our strong values of providing a responsive, safe, and high‑quality service for our patients in a supportive and efficient environment. We strive to ensure that our team can work in a trusting and fulfilling environment in which they can develop, learn and thrive.

The successful candidate will work closely with the partners and finance manager and operation manager, supported by fantastic administrative and clinical teams, to ensure the smooth day to day running of the practice, fulfilling all necessary management duties as agreed with the partnership.

• Provide organisational leadership to our team alongside the management team to ensure the effective delivery of high‑quality, sustainable services.
• Achieve key targets in all clinical and administrative areas of the practice.
• Manage, coordinate, and oversee all aspects of practice functionality.
• Motivate and manage staff, optimising efficiency and performance, and ensuring that the practice achieves its long‑term strategic objectives in a safe and effective working environment.
• Implement innovative working methods, you will lead the team in promoting continuous improvement, maintaining confidentiality, fostering collaboration, ensuring service delivery, and facilitating learning and development, all while ensuring compliance with CQC regulations.

We hold monthly meetings and training sessions and have a diverse team of clinicians, including first contact physio, pharmacists, ANP/NP, care coordinator, social prescriber, health coach, GP assistant and an award‑winning team of mental health workers.

• A permanent employment contract.
• Competitive salary with increments based on professional development.
• Membership in the NHS pension scheme.
• Support for your personal and professional development.
• Excellent training and development opportunities.
• Enjoy an impressive total of 6 weeks annual leave, along with eight bank holidays (pro‑rata) this increases with your continuous years of service in the NHS.
• Bike rack available.

Date posted 19 January 2026

Salary Depending on experience - TBC

Contract Permanent

Working pattern Full‑time

Reference number 28997-1

Job locations 76 Ambrose Avenue, Colchester, Essex, CO3 4LN

• A high level of personal organisation is essential, along with a systematic approach to problem‑solving and planning.
• Strong human resource skills, operations, and quality improvement.
• Prior experience of leadership and personnel management, ideally within a healthcare setting.
• Ability to deliver a vision, with a willingness and the drive to adapt to NHS targets and business planning, whilst keeping abreast of legislative and contractual changes.
• Self‑motivated, with a forward‑thinking, solution‑focused approach.
• The ability to develop, implement and embed policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Experience of working in an ever‑evolving environment, with an ability to cope with regular change.
• Excellent organisational, management and planning skills, IT skills and communication skills.
• Ability to implement and manage change effectively.
• Ability to identify training and development needs in self and other as well as experience of appraising staff.

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 name Primary Care Careers

Address 76 Ambrose Avenue, Colchester, Essex, CO3 4LN

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