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Policy/Strategy Advisor

Job details
Posting date: 31 May 2024
Salary: £40,025 to £44,043 per year
Additional salary information: Leeds: £40,025; London: £44,043
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 14 June 2024
Location: London
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 354850/2

Summary

In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose – to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you.

The vacancies sit within the Primary and Community Health Care Directorate of the Department’s Primary Care and Prevention Group.

The overall aim of the directorate is to ensure easy access to high-quality primary and community health services.

We are pleased to advertise three SEO vacancies within the General Practice Team of the Primary and Community Care Directorate. The team works closely with NHS England, other DHSC teams, other Government Departments, as well as key primary care stakeholders. General Practice is a high-profile policy area that attracts significant interest from ministers, the public, parliament, and the media. This an opportunity to make a real and positive difference to the lives of millions, working in the centre of Government to help drive improvements in general practice.

All the roles available will offer successful candidates the opportunity to develop skills in strategy, policy, stakeholder engagement and leadership. Areas which successful candidates could be working on include: GP contract, GP workforce and Primary and Community Healthcare Strategy. Further information of the type of work involved in these areas is provided below:

GP contract:

  • Providing the secretariat to the annual Director led GP contract consultation, working closely with the British Medical Association and other external stakeholders as appropriate.
  • Working closely with NHS England, Government lawyers, senior officials across the Department and other government departments including HMT, Cabinet Office, and No.10 to develop GP contract policy.
  • Working with teams across DHSC on policy and project work to advise on the use of the GP contract as a lever for delivering change.
  • Providing advice to Ministers and others on complex, sensitive and time critical issues to ensure the delivery of government priorities.

GP Workforce:

  • Developing proposals to grow the general practice workforce including multi-disciplinary teams in general practice
  • Use evidence, data and research to provide advice to Ministers on complex issues regarding the General Practice workforce.
  • Develop strong working relationships with external stakeholders to ensure that proposals around GP workforce align with qualitative and quantitative evidence

Primary and Community Healthcare Strategy:

  • Work on what the future of the GP Contract looks like after the current 5-year framework contract, from April 2024 onwards, joining up with work on the future of the Community Pharmacy contractual framework.
  • Working across DHSC, NHSE and with stakeholders such as patient groups, GPs and pharmacists to implement the recommendations in Dr Claire Fuller’s 2022 stocktake on ‘Next steps for integrating primary care’
  • Developing proposals for Primary and Community Healthcare for the upcoming Spending Review.
  • The post may also involve developing policy on community health services.

Role responsibilities

  • Building and maintaining strong working relationships with other DHSC policy colleagues, ALBs (including HMT and No10), legal, finance, analysts, other government departments and external stakeholders to set priorities, stress-test plans and deliver on objectives.
  • Analysing evidence, data, and information to find pragmatic solutions and inform policy. This will include evaluating options, risks and benefits taking into consideration commercial, legal and financial perspectives.
  • Carrying out detailed research on complex topics and developing policy proposals, often at short notice, to a high standard.
  • Highlighting how specific research and policy fit into the wider context (of reform), and, or, to any political sensitivities.
  • Communicating effectively by interpreting complex information and conveying this in a clear and persuasive way. This will include providing high quality written advice and recommendations for senior officials and ministers based on the best evidence, data and research available.
  • Managing multiple priorities and responding flexibly to competing demands from Ministers, Arms’ Length Bodies and senior officials by taking a proactive project management approach to prioritisation. This will include setting and agreeing timelines between organisations and scenario planning to enable decisions to be taken at pace in line with operational deadlines.