North East London
Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) Webpage

As part of the Long-Term Plan, Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and General Practices are encouraged to build a team of people with diverse skills and capabilities to support increased access for patients, alleviate pressures on existing staff, and improve the quality of care and services. The Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) provides PCNs with funding for some of these roles. Under the Primary Care Network DES, networks are able to recruit new roles to expand their care team with NHSE&I with a forecast of 26,000 additional staff working in general practice by 2024.

The aim of the scheme is to build and utilise the additional roles to solve the workforce shortage in general practice. Whereas the funding will be for new roles being introduced within PCNs, each network will have the flexibility to determine which roles form a core list they require based on their patient population requirements.

This website offers information, tools and links to help with the understanding of the various roles and how they support primary care.

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Click on the roles to see related information, tools and links.

Advanced Practitioner

Care Coordinator

Clinical Pharmacist

Dietitian

Digital Transformation Lead

First Contact Physiotherapist

GP Assistant

Health and Wellbeing Coach

Mental Health Practitioner

Nursing Associate & TNA

Occupational
Therapist

Paramedic

Pharmacy Technician

Physician Associate

Physiotherapist

Podiatrist

Social Prescribing Link Worker

Click Here for the Maximum Reimbursement Amounts per role for 2022/23

Role	Agenda for change band	Maximum reimbursable amount per role 1 April – 30 September 2022 £	Maximum reimbursable amount per role 1 October – 31 March 2023 £
Advanced practitioner	8a	63,243	65,002
Care coordinator	4	29,987	31,746
Clinical pharmacist	7-8a	57,318	59,076
Dietitian	7	55,313	57,072
Digital and transformation lead	8a		65,002
First contact physiotherapist	7-8a	57,318	59,076
General practice assistant	4		31,746
Health and wellbeing coach	Up to 5	36,428	38,187
Mental health practitioners*	5 / 6 / 7 / 8a (depending on the individual registered clinician providing the service)	14,993 – 31,622	19,094 – 32,501 Grade 4 dropped from 1 October
Nursing associate	4	29,987	31,746
Occupational therapist	7	55,313	57,072
Paramedic	7	55,313	57,072
Pharmacy technician	5	36,428	38,187
Podiatrist	7	55,313	57,072
Social prescribing link worker	Up to 5	36,428	38,187
Physician associate	7	55,313	57,072
Trainee nursing associate	3	26,418	28,177

Further Useful Links, Tools and Documents

PCN Toolkit: Using Social Prescribing,Health Coaching and Care Co-ordination to tackle health inequalities
It aims to:
Practically support PCNs to recruit, employ, embed, support, and develop all three of the roles
Signpost to all the useful resources, specifications and guidance on personalised care, social prescribers, health coaches, care coordinators and how population health and health inequalities relates to personalised care
Give practical examples of how each of the roles can work with patients, different cohorts, including those impacted by health inequalities

HEE Toolkit

ARRS roles in PC New Roles in Primary Care Guidance – This Health Education England Primary Care National Toolkit has been created to enable PCNs to develop their workforce. It refers not only to ARRS roles but to all new roles in Primary Care.

Additional Roles Overview

PCN Additional Roles – The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of each of the roles available for reimbursement via the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES) Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) and how these roles may be used in Primary Care Networks (PCNs), that should assist in considerations for your workforce planning.

PCN Requirements and Entitlements

Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service – Contract specification 2022/23

Supervision

Supervision for roles recruited through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS)
ARRS Roles – Guidance on supervision, training and responsibility

NHS AHP Careers in North East London – Short Feature

North East London Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) Webpage

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North East London
Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) Webpage