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About
NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS.
Through our seven regional teams, NHS England supports local integrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care – NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector – to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently.
Deputy Directorate of Finance - Productivity & Efficiency
Closed for applications on: 17-Jul-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 17-Jul-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Victoria House (EoE, Flexible across the Region)
- Address
- CB21 5XA
- Town
- Fulbourn
- Postcode
- CB21 5XA
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 9
Specialty
- Main area
- Finance
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled, experienced and motivated Deputy Director of Finance to join our dynamic team in the East of England to lead all aspects of productivity and efficiency support for systems in the region. As a Band 9 Deputy Director of Finance – Productivity and Efficiency, you will play a crucial role in supporting the region and systems in the delivery of their productivity and efficiency ambitions to recover core productivity and achieve financial sustainability. The role holder will work collaboratively with senior subject matter experts across systems and within the regional team and will deputise for other members of the regional Senior Finance Team as required.
Advert
- Key responsibilities:
Ensure the provision of expert, evidence based financial and business advice to regional and national colleagues. - Hold the primary financial relationship with systems and organisations and establish effective operating models working in a matrix way with the wider team to provide the appropriate level of support and escalation when needed.
- Provide leadership and strategic direction for work assigned to the wider Financial Oversight and Delivery team. Working via a direct line management or matrix approach as required.
- Lead financial planning, performance management, assurance and oversight for a number of systems – across revenue, capital and cash.
- Working closely with regional subject matter expert colleagues to help systems and organisations to deliver their financial targets and service plans, through the provision of oversight, advice and support and in accordance with national frameworks and policies.
- Ensure all national reporting requirements are complied with to support month end and year end processes.
- Ensure that appropriate advice is provided to systems / organisations on national approaches to financial planning and performance for both capital and revenue.
- Ensure rigorous appraisal of system and organisational financial plans to ensure viability and that financial risks have been soundly evaluated and mitigated.
Working for our organisation
The 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 a great 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main duties continued:
- Support the delivery of regional financial targets ensuring that systems and organisations deliver value for money, financially sustainable and efficient plans, supported by effective cost improvement programmes utilising regional benchmarking, learning and best practice.
- Ensure robust processes are in place to monitor financial performance to maintain a clear and up-to-date view of the financial position.
- Provide robust forecasts, risk predictions and mitigations.
- Ensure that systems, processes and information flows provide effective early warnings of potential failures in service quality, financial management, partnerships and performance. Take a risk based approach, in line with national frameworks to intervene, anticipate and avoid such failures.
- Play a key role with regional colleagues and work with them to tackle performance risks and issues, ensuring that support to improve is provided early.
- Provide expert advice to inform formal regulatory interactions and/or interventions where necessary. Lead financial intervention processes in the event of material concerns about financial performance and financial risk within national frameworks.
- Support national teams on planning, reviewing and agreeing cash requirements with systems and organisations within national policy.
- Oversee and assure the financial planning and redesign of services within the region, particularly large scale and complex service reconfigurations, ensuring business cases are subject to rigorous financial appraisal, are financially viable and provide value for money.
- Represent NHS England and its interests at national/public meetings/events as required, acting independently, decisively and effectively in sensitive and political situations. At times this involves delivering difficult messages and contentious information to high level audiences potentially in a difficult environment.
- Promote the highest standards of finance professionalism within the region including the development and implementation of new initiatives.
- Live the NHS values, lead with compassion and promote and foster these values in the wider team. Support the priorities of the Finance
- Directorate adopting a flexible approach to ensure all priorities can be delivered from within available resources.
These responsibilities require a qualified finance professional with a minimum of 8 years of post-qualification experience. The role is part of the East of England region Senior Finance Team and therefore the role holder will be required to engage with and drive wider regional finance initiatives and support staff development. The role holder should also have excellent interpersonal, communication and analytical skills, be comfortable dealing with uncertainty and the have the ability to handle conflict in a positive and professional manner.
You must meet this criteria to apply for this role:
- CCAB Qualified Accountant with minimum 8 years post qualification experience
- Proven senior leadership skills with strong evidence to demonstrate gravitas, influencing and strategic thinking at a senior level
- Evidence of leading and delivering key business processes across multiple systems/organisation/matrix teams to ensure delivery of key regional targets that are critical to support the overall financial position of the region
- Experience of robust stakeholder management to ensure acceptance of regional proposals across our systems including examples where differing views have been represented
- Evidence of line management experience to ensure a team perform at a high level to meet the exacting challenges required.
“We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability or learning difference, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
The definition of a disability is a condition that lasts long than 12 months and has a significant impact on day to day living, so this could include; neurodiversity, long term conditions, mental health, menopause and sensory impairments, however, this is not an exhaustive list.
We will honour the transfer of workplace passports from previous employers if the application is successful.
We welcome informal enquiries, please contact [email protected] to discuss any questions you may have about the role or to hear more about our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.”
Our commitments to you
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued and empowered. We’re passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow and excel, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that. We welcome your talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro-divergent.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK under the Skilled Worker route are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Please note that we currently do not accept applications via recruitment agencies.
The NHS Business Services Authority is responsible for the processing of your application; a privacy notice is attached to advise you on how we will process your personal data.
If you have applied via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred third-party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through NHS Jobs, and furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any emails sent to us via NHS Jobs. If you have a query relating to your application, please contact the recruitment team on [email protected] or 0300 330 1369. You can view our Privacy Notice here.
NHS England
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB Qualified Accountant with minimum 8 years post qualification experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Proven senior leadership skills with strong evidence to demonstrate gravitas, influencing and strategic thinking at a senior level
- Evidence of leading and delivering key business processes across multiple systems/organisation/matrix teams to ensure delivery of key regional targets that are critical to support the overall financial position of the region
- Experience of robust stakeholder management to ensure acceptance of regional proposals across our systems including examples where differing views have been represented
- Evidence of line management experience to ensure a team perform at a high level to meet the exacting challenges required.
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse complex problems qualitatively and quantitively to facilitate the development of plans and processes which are shared and delivered across multiple teams
- Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment with knowledge of and experience in handling media relations
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical
- • Demonstrable ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience gained to make inferences and decision making
- Significant ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
- Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management
Documents
- Job Description (DOCX, 137.8KB)
- Functional Requirements Form (3) (PDF, 69.8KB)
- NHSE - Verification of ID and RTW Guide (PDF, 306.6KB)
- Guide to Completing Your Application (DOCX, 42.7KB)
- Note for Existing NHS Employees applying for Fixed Term vacancies (DOCX, 26.2KB)
- Redundancy Clawback (PDF, 16.7KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Griffiths
- Job title
- Director of Operational Finance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07783 822038
- Additional information
Location: Any NHSE EOE Site Victoria House, Fulbourn, Charter House WGC, County Hall, Norwich, Phoenix Ct, Basildon, Priory Hse Shefford
You can also contact other members of the team / shortlisting panel
Philip Morris, Deputy Director of Financial Oversight & Delivery - [email protected] 07900 715068
Lorraine Bromley-Martin Engagement Manager [email protected] 07770 277316
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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