Job summary
Reporting directly to the Chief Executive and a key member of the Board, you will play a central role in creating the financial and estates environment underpinning our capabilities to deliver on our vision and ambitions as we start to deliver our new Trust Strategy.
We are seeking a skilled and professional leader with the experience and ambition to drive excellence in financial management, providing visible and transformational professional leadership of financial services and planning, procurement, business intelligence and estates and facilities. As we are a new build hospital significant experience of effectively managing PFI contracts is essential. We are grateful to have the support of a proactive and successful charity and the successful candidate will provide strategic leadership to the RPH Charity team.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone who has the ability to understand complex organisational and strategic issues, identify the key issues and then communicate them in a way that's clear for a range of different audiences. As a naturally compassionate and inclusive leader, you will live and breathe our values and have the vision and drive to help us improve the experience of our staff, creating for them a working environment that is supportive, compassionate, inclusive and equitable where their contribution is valued. The successful candidate will continue the development of the Finance function and people within it to build on our level 3 accreditation with One NHS Finance.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Accountant (CCAB or CIMA) with significant post-qualification experience.
- Evidence of professional and personal development within the last two years.
Experience
Essential
- In-depth understanding of national NHS strategy and policy and ability to translate this into a strategy and operational outcomes.
- Familiarity with current political, legal and business developments that impact upon finance, information and risk management in the NHS.
- Substantial management experience and achievement at Executive / Board level in the NHS or other public sector.
- A strong track record in corporate financial planning, management and delivery of financial imperatives.
- Successful achievement of financial and other performance targets.
- Significant experience of managing PFI contracts.
- Substantial experience of staff management and leadership.
- Leading and achieving change in business planning and performance management processes.
- Successful partnership working with other healthcare and external agencies.
- A good understanding of NHS Corporate Governance, Controls Assurance and business planning, service provision, as well as the commissioning process, patient flows, resource management and budget monitoring.
- Evidence of strategic planning and decision making.
- Evidence of ability to make significant and successful contribution at Board level in a large and complex organisation.
- Evidence of a compassionate and inclusive leadership style.
- The ability to build effective teams and partnerships.
- Supportive of equality and values diversity.
- Ability to apply the Trust's values at all times.
- Ability to participate in the gold on-call rota
Additional Criteria
Essential
- As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that is consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration the successful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to driving culture change through equality, diversity and inclusion.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Accountant (CCAB or CIMA) with significant post-qualification experience.
- Evidence of professional and personal development within the last two years.
Experience
Essential
- In-depth understanding of national NHS strategy and policy and ability to translate this into a strategy and operational outcomes.
- Familiarity with current political, legal and business developments that impact upon finance, information and risk management in the NHS.
- Substantial management experience and achievement at Executive / Board level in the NHS or other public sector.
- A strong track record in corporate financial planning, management and delivery of financial imperatives.
- Successful achievement of financial and other performance targets.
- Significant experience of managing PFI contracts.
- Substantial experience of staff management and leadership.
- Leading and achieving change in business planning and performance management processes.
- Successful partnership working with other healthcare and external agencies.
- A good understanding of NHS Corporate Governance, Controls Assurance and business planning, service provision, as well as the commissioning process, patient flows, resource management and budget monitoring.
- Evidence of strategic planning and decision making.
- Evidence of ability to make significant and successful contribution at Board level in a large and complex organisation.
- Evidence of a compassionate and inclusive leadership style.
- The ability to build effective teams and partnerships.
- Supportive of equality and values diversity.
- Ability to apply the Trust's values at all times.
- Ability to participate in the gold on-call rota
Additional Criteria
Essential
- As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that is consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration the successful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to driving culture change through equality, diversity and inclusion.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
