Job summary
The Head of Finance and contracts is a new role within Complex Care. The successful applicant will be highly motivated, driven to make a significant contribution to the development of services across NCL, and see's this role as a opportunity to further their career in financial management
Main duties of the job
Purpose of role
As a senior member of the Complex Care leadership team, provide financial leadership across complex care to ensure we have clear line of sight on patients with complex needs, understanding the financial implications and activity trends
Lead negotiations with Care providers and Local Authorities regarding all types of financial transactions
Provide a range of financial advice and input to a range of strategic developments, commissioning and business decisions
Work with commissioning colleagues to ensure we deliver financial balance and CIP / SEP requirements
About us
NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in our five boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, and Islington.
Our local population is large and diverse, with a wide range of health and care needs that are evolving all the time. We're committed to improving the health and experience of our patients and residents, working with partners across the North Central London Integrated Care System (ICS) - including Councils, providers, GPs and voluntary and community organisations - to plan and deliver high quality, joined-up and accessible health and care services that put people first.
As an ICB, we're focused on:
- improving outcomes in population health and healthcare
- tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access
- enhancing productivity and value for money
- helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.
We're ambitious, driven, and passionate about working collaboratively and creatively to deliver the best health and care possible for our patients and residents through every stage of their lives. Our Population Health and Integration Strategy outlines our vision and priorities and will shape our focus as a system for the coming years.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key duties of the role
- Provide leadership on the finance and contracting elements of complex Care, ensuring full governance and clear audit compliance are maintained
- Manage the annual contracting and uplift cycle ensuring compliance and best VFM
- Drive fairness and equality in placement pricing, and contribute to modelling a sustainable NCL care market for the future
- Provide financial expertise and support to business cases and plans across complex care
- Develop detailed financial reports, including forecasting and trend
- Ensure all financial practices across complex care are compliant with regulation and financial standards
- Ensure invoices are paid within NHS agreed timelines, leading any recovery plans as required
- Provide financial leadership to the CIP plans, working with the Head of Transformation & Efficiency
- Investigate financial performance discrepancies and anomalies, including the development and implementation of any associated recovery plans
- Lead on the use of technology to ensure financial and contracting elements of complex care are as efficient as possible.
- Lead the annual inflation / uplift programme including recommendations to EMT
- Lead on the negotiation of contracts, in a commercially focused and competitive manner, ensuring VFM is achieved
Current Key priorities of the role include:
- Achieving financial balance
- Identification of trends which impact cost pressures
- Transforming the accounts payable, contracting and the uplift processes
- Ensuring providers are paid on time
Key working relationships
Internal :
- Complex Care Teams
- Directors of Finance and associated teams
- Quality Assurance Colleagues
- Performance and transformation Directorate
DPH Directorate
External
- NHS providers
- NCL Local Authorities
- Shared Business Services (SBS)
- London Shared Services (LSS)
- Provider/Supplier agencies
- The Integrated Care System (ICS)
- NHS England (NHSE)
Key essential criteria
- Qualified Consultive Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB)/CIMA accountant with active registration
- Expert understanding and experience in financial and activity management, including contracting, commissioning finance, annual planning and budget monitoring.
- Practical experience of developing and delivering efficiency and recovery plans
- Strong Influencing and negotiation skills
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key duties of the role
- Provide leadership on the finance and contracting elements of complex Care, ensuring full governance and clear audit compliance are maintained
- Manage the annual contracting and uplift cycle ensuring compliance and best VFM
- Drive fairness and equality in placement pricing, and contribute to modelling a sustainable NCL care market for the future
- Provide financial expertise and support to business cases and plans across complex care
- Develop detailed financial reports, including forecasting and trend
- Ensure all financial practices across complex care are compliant with regulation and financial standards
- Ensure invoices are paid within NHS agreed timelines, leading any recovery plans as required
- Provide financial leadership to the CIP plans, working with the Head of Transformation & Efficiency
- Investigate financial performance discrepancies and anomalies, including the development and implementation of any associated recovery plans
- Lead on the use of technology to ensure financial and contracting elements of complex care are as efficient as possible.
- Lead the annual inflation / uplift programme including recommendations to EMT
- Lead on the negotiation of contracts, in a commercially focused and competitive manner, ensuring VFM is achieved
Current Key priorities of the role include:
- Achieving financial balance
- Identification of trends which impact cost pressures
- Transforming the accounts payable, contracting and the uplift processes
- Ensuring providers are paid on time
Key working relationships
Internal :
- Complex Care Teams
- Directors of Finance and associated teams
- Quality Assurance Colleagues
- Performance and transformation Directorate
DPH Directorate
External
- NHS providers
- NCL Local Authorities
- Shared Business Services (SBS)
- London Shared Services (LSS)
- Provider/Supplier agencies
- The Integrated Care System (ICS)
- NHS England (NHSE)
Key essential criteria
- Qualified Consultive Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB)/CIMA accountant with active registration
- Expert understanding and experience in financial and activity management, including contracting, commissioning finance, annual planning and budget monitoring.
- Practical experience of developing and delivering efficiency and recovery plans
- Strong Influencing and negotiation skills
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Consultive Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB)/CIMA accountant with active registration
- Evidence of on-going CPD compliance relevant to specific CCAB body.
Experience
Essential
- Expert understanding and experience in financial and activity management, including contracting, commissioning finance, annual planning and budget monitoring.
- Practical experience of developing and delivering efficiency and recovery plans
- A good understanding of current health policy and appreciate the implications of this on commissioning across health and social care
- Senior level of experience with a solid understanding of financial budgets
- Senior level of experience and expertise in commercial development, performance data and business services
- Experience in complex communication and negotiations with providers and key stakeholders
- Significant experience of managing business commissioning functions through a Finance lens.
- Demonstrable track record of successful delivery of projects and complex programmes of work
- Experience of developing and delivering a clear business plan and of making difficult and challenging decisions
Knowledge/Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft office with advanced excel skills
- Strong analytical skills, including developing analytical frameworks, undertaking analysis presenting complex information, interpreting findings influencing decisions
- Ability to identify risks, including financial risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and resolve problems in relation to projects or service delivery
- Highly competent in technical ability to; analyse and interpret complex / very complex financial and activity data and information to identify significant trends and plot graphs and visual performance data for various audiences
- Ability to support people, motivation and influencing skills, including to people not directly managed by them
- Demonstrable experience of managing teams of staff
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Consultive Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB)/CIMA accountant with active registration
- Evidence of on-going CPD compliance relevant to specific CCAB body.
Experience
Essential
- Expert understanding and experience in financial and activity management, including contracting, commissioning finance, annual planning and budget monitoring.
- Practical experience of developing and delivering efficiency and recovery plans
- A good understanding of current health policy and appreciate the implications of this on commissioning across health and social care
- Senior level of experience with a solid understanding of financial budgets
- Senior level of experience and expertise in commercial development, performance data and business services
- Experience in complex communication and negotiations with providers and key stakeholders
- Significant experience of managing business commissioning functions through a Finance lens.
- Demonstrable track record of successful delivery of projects and complex programmes of work
- Experience of developing and delivering a clear business plan and of making difficult and challenging decisions
Knowledge/Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft office with advanced excel skills
- Strong analytical skills, including developing analytical frameworks, undertaking analysis presenting complex information, interpreting findings influencing decisions
- Ability to identify risks, including financial risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and resolve problems in relation to projects or service delivery
- Highly competent in technical ability to; analyse and interpret complex / very complex financial and activity data and information to identify significant trends and plot graphs and visual performance data for various audiences
- Ability to support people, motivation and influencing skills, including to people not directly managed by them
- Demonstrable experience of managing teams of staff
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
