Head of Community/MH Finance Business Partnering

Job summary

The postholder will be responsible for providing the ICB with a professional financial management service ensuring that financial information is produced and reported in accordance with the ICBs requirements for both planning and performance management purposes.

The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that budgets are set in accordance with the ICBs requirements. They will ensure that all decisions on changes to service provision within the ICB are made in the full knowledge of both the long- and short-term financial consequences.

The postholder will be responsible for providing overall professional leadership and management to all aspects of Community, Mental Health/ LD/ CHC etc allocations.

The post holder is responsible for the management and co-ordination of the team resources to produce accurate, complete and timely periodic internal and external financial reports and monitoring returns. The post holder is responsible for the presentation of this information and the provision of effective and pertinent analysis of the financial reports to support the senior finance team in effectively identifying and managing risk and delivering financial performance objectives.

As a direct report to the Director of Operational Finance, the post holder will be required to arrange and control their own workload and the staff within the department and is expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy and demonstrate senior professional experience and standards.

Main duties of the job

Please find attached the detailed job description for further information on the duties and responsibilities of the role.

About us

The BOB ICB covers the geography across three counties and goes in line with the local authority boundaries of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham. Our geography covers a population of nearly 1.8 million.

Our constituent organisations include 175 GP surgeries, 5 local authorities, 3 acute hospital trusts, 2 mental health and community providers, 1 ambulance trust and a single operating model across all of this, spending £2.5bn of public money each year.

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve.

We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black and Minority ethnic communities, LGBTQIA communities, younger candidates and from people with experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.

Our values are:

• Respectful we are inclusive
• Impactful we make a difference
• Integrity we are kind and fair
• Leadership we encourage leadership
• Collaborative we work together in a positive way