Job summary
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic individual into the role of Senior Finance Manager - Productivity Support.
The post holder will work as part of a dynamic, innovative team in delivering an exciting new programme which will support systems and organisations to identify and deliver improvements in productivity, resulting in better care for our patients. The team works in partnership with colleagues from across the regional team as well as with colleagues in our systems.
The Finance Directorate is a high performing team, flexible in approach, adaptable to change and a key function of the Regional. It oversees the financial performance of the Region by:
- Ensuring risk is managed and balanced across organisations, systems and the Region;
- Managing and actively promoting system working to ensure best value for money;
- Ensuring systems and processes are in place to enable sound financial control;
- Providing necessary advice, support, challenge to organisations and the systems;
- Work with systems and organisations to develop sustainable financial strategies
Main duties of the job
The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise across finance, performance and workforce areas, with strong technical and communication skills as we design and deliver first class support for our systems.
It may suit a candidate with strong experience and technical skills from a range of potential backgrounds including but not limited to finance or analytics, who has the appetite to become a subject matter expert in a range of areas, can demonstrate exceptional technical skills and enjoys working collaboratively with colleagues from across organisations and systems from a range of disciplines.
About us
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS agreat place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main duties of the job are:
Provide support to the Deputy Director to develop and deliver productivity and efficiency programmes for the South West, working closely with colleagues across the region to ensure best use of available benchmarking, learning and best practice;
Support the process for ensuring that the regular reporting of the productivity metrics for systems within the Region happens in a timely manner, and is supported by high quality information analysis and continually improved, always looking to find new ways in which the consistent regional understanding of productivity can be improved across organisations;
Support the analysis of systems performance and, in particular, their efficiency delivery and support the reporting and sharing of best practice across the Region;
Provide support, and ensure, accurate and open communication and co-ordination with staff from all South West systems to enable best practice to be identified and shared;
Develop, and implement, summary information regarding systems plans and in-year performance to ensure these are properly understood and communicated in a timely fashion to other Regional colleagues;
Provide analysis to support the delivery of regulatory responsibilities, including assurance of service change processes, transactions and other reviews;
Provide other ad hoc analysis and other reporting requirements as requested;
Pro-actively manage their own training and development requirements, within a supportive team culture.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main duties of the job are:
Provide support to the Deputy Director to develop and deliver productivity and efficiency programmes for the South West, working closely with colleagues across the region to ensure best use of available benchmarking, learning and best practice;
Support the process for ensuring that the regular reporting of the productivity metrics for systems within the Region happens in a timely manner, and is supported by high quality information analysis and continually improved, always looking to find new ways in which the consistent regional understanding of productivity can be improved across organisations;
Support the analysis of systems performance and, in particular, their efficiency delivery and support the reporting and sharing of best practice across the Region;
Provide support, and ensure, accurate and open communication and co-ordination with staff from all South West systems to enable best practice to be identified and shared;
Develop, and implement, summary information regarding systems plans and in-year performance to ensure these are properly understood and communicated in a timely fashion to other Regional colleagues;
Provide analysis to support the delivery of regulatory responsibilities, including assurance of service change processes, transactions and other reviews;
Provide other ad hoc analysis and other reporting requirements as requested;
Pro-actively manage their own training and development requirements, within a supportive team culture.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
Essential
- CCAB finalist who has successfully passed their final examinations and needs only to complete relevant work experience to qualify
- At least two years' post-qualification experience working in finance in a large or complex organisation, ideally within the NHS
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- High standard of ability to communicate financial information to non-finance colleagues both orally and written.
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.
- Ability to work independently using own initiative
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to stay calm in difficult situations e.g. within meetings about matters of potential controversy
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, and present complex and sensitive information.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
Essential
- CCAB finalist who has successfully passed their final examinations and needs only to complete relevant work experience to qualify
- At least two years' post-qualification experience working in finance in a large or complex organisation, ideally within the NHS
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- High standard of ability to communicate financial information to non-finance colleagues both orally and written.
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.
- Ability to work independently using own initiative
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to stay calm in difficult situations e.g. within meetings about matters of potential controversy
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, and present complex and sensitive information.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
Additional information
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).
