Job summary
To partner the senior Operational
Teams within their dedicated Directorate ensuring they get the business and
financial support they need to run their Directorate. The role works in close
partnership with the directorate to help drive transformation as well as value
for money.
Part of a team of Finance
professionals, responsible for the provision of an expert financial management
service to a portfolio of clinical units and/or corporate departments.
To support the development of
Cost Improvement Programme schemes (CIPs) and the financial modelling of
service developments, ensuring that the information produced is robust,
accurate and that plans are deliverable.
To support the Head of System
Reporting and Corporate with the development and implementation of the ICBs
medium to long term strategy.
To support the Head of System
Reporting and Corporate in the delivery of corporate tasks and objectives,
assuming responsibility for the delivery of a range of tasks.
Work with and cover Directorate
Business Partners to ensure the senior team in the Directorates are supported
in the decisions and running of the Directorate.
Main duties of the job
To provide leadership, financial
and business advice and support, in the production of high quality financial
management information, for a range of clinical and corporate units.
To work closely with other
Finance professionals and across the other corporate functions to ensure
comprehensive support is given to the senior management within the Directorate
and to the other business partners and executives.
To provide a high quality
financial management reporting service with a focus on identifying trends,
risks and opportunities, communicating these to senior finance staff, clinical
unit/ corporate management teams and to the executive team in such a way that
its use informs management decision making.
To produce high quality reports
for Directorates and the CFO.
To develop robust forecasting
systems and models and to ensure these systems are monitored for accuracy; and
assumptions are challenged with appropriate individuals to ensure that
information presented is robust, accurate, deliverable and owned by relevant
individuals.
To review CIP plans for
Directorates within their portfolio, challenging assumptions and assessing risk
to ensure scheme information is robust, accurate and deliverable.
To lead on the development and
assessment of corporate wide cost improvement schemes, working with managers
and clinicians to carry out financial and activity modelling.
About us
In
the heart of the Thames Valley is our Integrated Care Board (ICB). It 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. While
overall in good health and socio-economic condition, alongside affluence we
have pockets of severe deprivation.
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, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from
people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all
under-represented in these important roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To support with the development
and enhancement of CIP reporting and tracking systems.
To support the Finance team in
the modelling of activity, income and expenditure in relation to complex
business case developments and funding proposals, both internal and external to
the ICB.
To ensure that the impact of
capital costs is fully factored into revenue business cases and vice
versa. To challenge assumptions with
relevant individuals and to be responsible for ensuring that financial
modelling is robust, accurate and in line with overall ICB objectives,
assessing risks and identifying risk mitigating actions as required.
To interpret accounting guidance
and NHSE directives regarding accounting and funding mechanisms, and to assess
the impact and recommend actions that ensure clinical services and corporate
Directorates maximise their income and minimise their costs.
To assist in the overall annual
business planning and budget setting process for clinical units and corporate
Directorates within the portfolio and to support the other Finance staff in
delivering required tasks for their designated areas.
To support the Head of System
Reporting and Corporate with the production and development of ICB wide
reporting for Directorate and ICB meetings, including Board meetings and
performance review meetings.
To support Clinical Unit managers
and clinicians in understanding their income position, and in the
identification and implementation of income maximisation opportunities.
To work with the clinical units
and corporate Directorates to benchmark their services from financial and
non-financial perspectives and to develop reporting mechanisms to monitor and
assess relative performance.
To lead on assigned on ICB wide
corporate projects
To lead on finance wide projects
To work with other finance
departments and corporate services to identify opportunities for improvement
and enhancement within financial processes and to lead on the implementation of
required changes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To support with the development
and enhancement of CIP reporting and tracking systems.
To support the Finance team in
the modelling of activity, income and expenditure in relation to complex
business case developments and funding proposals, both internal and external to
the ICB.
To ensure that the impact of
capital costs is fully factored into revenue business cases and vice
versa. To challenge assumptions with
relevant individuals and to be responsible for ensuring that financial
modelling is robust, accurate and in line with overall ICB objectives,
assessing risks and identifying risk mitigating actions as required.
To interpret accounting guidance
and NHSE directives regarding accounting and funding mechanisms, and to assess
the impact and recommend actions that ensure clinical services and corporate
Directorates maximise their income and minimise their costs.
To assist in the overall annual
business planning and budget setting process for clinical units and corporate
Directorates within the portfolio and to support the other Finance staff in
delivering required tasks for their designated areas.
To support the Head of System
Reporting and Corporate with the production and development of ICB wide
reporting for Directorate and ICB meetings, including Board meetings and
performance review meetings.
To support Clinical Unit managers
and clinicians in understanding their income position, and in the
identification and implementation of income maximisation opportunities.
To work with the clinical units
and corporate Directorates to benchmark their services from financial and
non-financial perspectives and to develop reporting mechanisms to monitor and
assess relative performance.
To lead on assigned on ICB wide
corporate projects
To lead on finance wide projects
To work with other finance
departments and corporate services to identify opportunities for improvement
and enhancement within financial processes and to lead on the implementation of
required changes.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information in an appropriate and discreet manner.
- Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and good analytical skills.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to often changing and tight timescales.
- Ability to question and challenge budget holders and other staff where appropriate to hold them to account for budgetary spend.
- Ability to gain clinical engagement.
- Excellent inter-personal skills including negotiation with staff on challenging and detailed issues.
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to overcome barriers to acceptance.
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively, manage and motivate a team and review individual performance.
- Excellent Microsoft office skills and advanced Excel.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Knowledge of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB qualified or equivalent with 2-5 years post qualification experience at a senior level inside or outside the NHS.
- Post qualification experience in a financial management role. 2 years or more.
- Wide knowledge of NHS financial regime, acquired through equivalent experience or training.
- Experience of assessing value for money opportunities and evaluating transformation projects.
- Evidenced continuous professional development record.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information in an appropriate and discreet manner.
- Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and good analytical skills.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to often changing and tight timescales.
- Ability to question and challenge budget holders and other staff where appropriate to hold them to account for budgetary spend.
- Ability to gain clinical engagement.
- Excellent inter-personal skills including negotiation with staff on challenging and detailed issues.
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to overcome barriers to acceptance.
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively, manage and motivate a team and review individual performance.
- Excellent Microsoft office skills and advanced Excel.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Knowledge of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB qualified or equivalent with 2-5 years post qualification experience at a senior level inside or outside the NHS.
- Post qualification experience in a financial management role. 2 years or more.
- Wide knowledge of NHS financial regime, acquired through equivalent experience or training.
- Experience of assessing value for money opportunities and evaluating transformation projects.
- Evidenced continuous professional development record.
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.
