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About
NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) was established in July 2022 (prior to this the ICB was a Clinical Commissioning Group).
At the heart of health decision making will be our Integrated Care Board (ICB), delivering our shared strategic priorities within the NHS and connecting to partnerships across Northamptonshire Integrated Care System.
Finance Manager - Non Acute
Accepting applications until: 06-Jan-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 06-Jan-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Haylock House
- Town
- Kettering
- Postcode
- NN15 6EY
- Major / Minor Region
- Northamptonshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Cover for Long Term Sickness)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Finance
Our vision for the future of Northamptonshire’s health and care services is for a positive lifetime of health, wellbeing and care in our community.
Our mission in working together, the reason we do what we do, is to empower positive futures. Wherever we work and whatever our role we all want people in Northamptonshire to be able to choose well, stay well, live well.
Each day our values will help to guide our decisions and what is most important to us:
- Our patients and our local population come first
- We work together in an open and accountable way
- We trust, challenge and support each other
- We do what we say we will do.
Job overview
Northamptonshire ICB Business Planning & Resources Directorate are looking for a CCAB or CIMA qualified Band 7 Finance Manager for this exciting 12-month secondment, working within the financial management team.
The Finance Manager is a key role within NHS Northamptonshire ICB, supporting the organisation to commission high-quality, cost-effective services which reflect the needs and improve the health and wellbeing of the people we serve.
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The main focus of the role will be to provide key financial support across a portfolio of budgets with specific focus in the following areas:
• Community Services
• Mental Health and Learning Disability Services
• Children and Young Persons Services
• Continuing Healthcare
• Better Care Fund
• Delegated Specialised Services where relevant.
Working for our organisation
The Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a statutory body responsible for local NHS services, functions, performance and budgets. It is directly accountable to the NHS and is made up of local NHS trusts, primary care providers, and local authorities.
The ICB is responsible for joining up care services to improve patient experience in the community. The Board includes a chair, the chief executive and representatives from NHS organisations, primary care (GPs) and local authorities (councils).
The Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) is a statutory committee that brings together all system partners to produce a health and care strategy. As a forum to support partnership working, the ICP brings together local authorities, health and social care, and housing providers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the detailed Job Description which can be found in the documents section. The JD includes the main responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Master’s degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent
- Evidence of continued professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at Senior Management Team level
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
Knowledge and understanding
Essential criteria
- Highly established, specialist knowledge acquired in a similar role
- Knowledge of financial and accounting policies and processes with the ability to provide advice and guidance as required
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
Skill and abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Used to working in a busy environment
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
- Professional, calm and efficient manner
- Effective organizer, influencer and networker
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals
- Completer/Finisher
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- James Titmus
- Job title
- Head of Financial Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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