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Essential
17 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Significant experience in NHS commissioning, contracting, business development, transformation or system delivery roles, with a clear track record of working across organisational boundaries.
- Experience
Proven experience leading or significantly contributing to complex contract development and management, including financial mechanisms, reconciliation arrangements, performance requirements and risk mitigation.
- Experience
Experience supporting delivery of services across PCNs, federations, practices or similar multi-provider environments, including managing variation and translating expectations into practical delivery arrangements.
- Experience
Strong understanding of NHS governance and assurance, including practical implementation of information governance frameworks.
- Experience
Experience translating policy, service specifications, commissioning intentions or system priorities into operational delivery models that can be implemented in practice.
- Experience
Experience working with senior stakeholders across primary care, ICBs, providers or wider system partners, including situations where influence is required without direct line management authority.
- Experience
Experience working with Training Hubs, workforce programmes or the alignment of workforce development activity with service delivery.
- Experience
Experience supporting or enabling research participation, including NIHR or Clinical Research Delivery activity, within primary care settings.
- Qualifications
Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in the specialist area.
- Qualifications
Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Skills and Attributes
Strong system leadership skills, with the ability to create alignment between multiple organisations, priorities and delivery constraints.
- Skills and Attributes
Highly developed negotiation and contract management skills, including the ability to identify ambiguity, manage challenge constructively and secure practical resolution.
- Skills and Attributes
Ability to assess opportunities and risks, balancing strategic ambition with operational deliverability, workforce capacity and financial implications.
- Skills and Attributes
Strong analytical and financial capability, with the ability to interpret performance, activity and financial data and use this to support decisions, assurance and income protection.
- Skills and Attributes
Ability to operate effectively within changing system structures and unclear lines of accountability, maintaining momentum and clarity where arrangements are evolving.
- Skills and Attributes
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex contractual, financial and IG issues in clear, practical language for PCNs, practices and senior stakeholders.
- Skills and Attributes
Pragmatic, resilient and delivery-focused, with the confidence to escalate risk appropriately while maintaining constructive relationships.
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills and Attributes
Experience working across ICB, provider and primary care interfaces in an evolving system context.
- Skills and Attributes
Experience supporting large-scale information governance implementation across multiple organisations or practices.
- Skills and Attributes
Experience developing scalable service models through pilots, expressions of interest, locally commissioned services or neighbourhood-based delivery models
Job summary
Join London Medical Associates, West London GP Federation, in a senior leadership role that will help shape the future of primary care across West London.
As Primary Care Business Development Lead, you will identify new opportunities, develop innovative services and support Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to deliver high-quality care at scale. Working across the NHS, local partners, research organisations and community providers, you will play a key role in translating strategic ambitions into practical services that improve outcomes for patients and communities.
This is an exciting opportunity to influence service development at a time of significant change across the NHS. You will help secure new contracts, build strong partnerships, support workforce development and ensure that services are sustainable, financially viable and operationally deliverable.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated leader who enjoys working across organisational boundaries, solving complex problems and turning ideas into action. In return, you will join a forward-thinking organisation with strong local relationships, flexible hybrid working and the opportunity to make a tangible difference to primary care services across West London.
Main duties of the job
You will lead the identification and development of new business, contract and service opportunities for the Federation and local PCNs, helping primary care respond to changing NHS priorities and neighbourhood-based models of care.
Working closely with PCN leaders, practices and system partners, you will support the design and mobilisation of services that are clinically effective, financially sustainable and operationally practical. You will bring together contractual, workforce, governance, information governance, performance and financial considerations to support successful delivery.
The role will involve building strong relationships across the NHS and wider system, influencing without direct authority and ensuring that opportunities, risks and delivery requirements are clearly understood. You will use data, insight and performance information to support improvement, manage risk and maximise income opportunities.
You will also oversee links with workforce development, training and research partners, ensuring these activities support service delivery and create value for practices and PCNs. In addition, you will provide line management to the Head of Training and Research and contribute to the Federation's wider strategic development.
About us
The London Medical Associates West London GP Federation (LMA) supports primary care across West London, delivering services across Kensington and Chelsea and Paddington and Queens Park in Westminster.
Our teams work with our Board, five PCNs, patients and local partners to develop place-based initiatives that integrate services and improve population health.
Details
- Date posted: 02 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 8b
- Salary: Depending on experience
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
- Reference number: B0178-26-0011
- Job locations: St. Charles Centre for Health & Wellbeing, London, W10 6DZ, United Kingdom, Violet Melchett Clinic, 30 Flood Walk, LONDON, SW3 5RR, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
The Primary Care Business Development Lead is a senior leadership role responsible for identifying, developing and supporting new primary care opportunities across West London. Working with the Federation, Primary Care Networks (PCNs), NHS partners and wider stakeholders, the postholder will help secure and deliver services that are operationally practical, financially sustainable and aligned to local health priorities. They will lead on business development, contract oversight, governance, performance improvement, workforce planning and service mobilisation, ensuring opportunities are translated into effective delivery models. The role also provides strategic oversight of training, education and research partnerships, helping maximise their value to practices and PCNs. Success will depend on building strong relationships, influencing across organisational boundaries and supporting PCNs to deliver high-quality services that improve outcomes, strengthen primary care and maximise funding opportunities across West London.
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This advert is for Primary Care Business Development Lead with West London GP Federation in London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Lead (legacy administrative group) role. The advertised salary is Depends on experience. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 10 Sep 2026.
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