Director of Finance
Accepting applications until: 21-Apr-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 21-Apr-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Blackpool Victoria Hospital
- Address
- Ainscoe House, 12 East Park Drive
- Town
- Blackpool
- Postcode
- FY3 8DX
- Major / Minor Region
- Lancashire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 2 years (Fixed Term 2 Year Contract)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Grade
- Attractive Salary
Specialty
- Main area
- Finance
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
Please note that this role is advertised on behalf of Atlas BFW Management Ltd (Atlas), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and as such, successful applicant(s) will be on Atlas Terms and Conditions. For further information about Atlas, please visit: www.bfwml.co.uk
A senior role in the company, the Director of Finance, has responsibility for the Company’s finances and for ensuring that the organisation meets all its statutory and contractual obligations whilst also driving forward continuous improvement programmes.
Advert
The Director of Finance will need to have the ability to support the Managing Director with innovative solutions, together with the skills to foster joint working across service and organisational boundaries.
It is currently an exciting time for Atlas as there are significant opportunities to both grow the business and to also facilitate and develop collaborative working relationships across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
This is a key strategic ambition for the Company and therefore, the Director of Finance will be expected to demonstrate the ability to develop effective, productive working relationships with a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders, coupled with exceptional leadership skills, that will ensure delivery of the Company’s strategic objectives.
Working for our organisation
As experts in healthcare facilities and property management, we deliver fully-managed healthcare facilities services and property management solutions to clients throughout Blackpool, Fylde, Wyre and North Lancashire.
Our teams ensure our clients properties and amenities provide the best environment for their customers, patients, staff and visitors.
As a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we support the Trusts frontline clinical services and assist with the delivery of patient care, through our service provision.
Our profits are used to help grow our business, whilst providing additional employment, training and development opportunities for local people.
Visit: bfwml.co.uk for further information
Please note this role will be on an ATLAS contract, not an NHS contract.
This advert will close when sufficient applications have been received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Financial Management:
The post holder will: · Oversee the development of the Company’s subsequent business plans and annual operating budgets, including clear objectives and action plans to provide for the implementation of those plans.· Ensure strong financial controls are in place, with clear accountability and responsibilities to provide for effective financial probity.· Manage and maintain effective relationships with both internal and external audit functions and ensure that audit recommendations are acted upon.· Liaise closely with senior leadership colleagues from One LSC to ensure that effective procurement systems are in place which support the Company in the acquisition of goods and services, whilst ensuring that value for money is delivered.· To ensure that operational teams receive high quality financial training on budgetary management and financial control, business case preparation and cost improvement efficiencies and delivery.· In addition, ensure that training opportunities are provided for all finance, business development and procurement staff to maintain and develop appropriate levels of skills and capabilities.· Ensure that a robust and rigorous process is in place for the evaluation of business cases prior to presentation to the Board of Directors.· Develop an effective reporting framework to ensure the delivery of timely, accurate monthly financial budgetary performance information in the appropriate formats for both the Board and operational teams.· Report on financial performance to the Board and ensure that the Board is kept fully informed on all critical financial issues.· Ensure that robust tendering and contract management systems are in place.· Ensure that annual efficiency reviews of service provision and organisation are conducted so that the best value for money is achieved.· Support the delivery of services that demonstrate the best use of available resources to provide efficient and effective outcomes in line with best practice and quality standards which allow for the continuous improvement of the Company.
Financial Services:
The post holder will: · Ensure effective cash flow management processes are in place to secure the Company’s required working capital support. · Oversee the production and presentation of the statutory annual financial accounts, ensuring that all requirements are delivered to timescale and comply with all relevant reporting standards. · Ensure that all capital accounting requirements are complied with and that appropriate records are maintained for all items of capital expenditure. · Support the Managing Director in ensuring that the Company is operating in a manner and on a scale that is financially sustainable.Line Management Responsibilities:
The post holder will: · Have line management responsibility for Corporate Services including property, capital, workforce, project management & marketing · Be responsible for ensuring that the monitoring of staff sickness is managed in line with Atlas Policy. · Authorise annual leave and ensure that there is adequate cover in place to provide an effective service. · Ensure that vacancies are recruited promptly to aid with reducing agency spend, assist in the recruitment process when required and ensure authorisation / ‘sign-off’ as appropriate. · Ensure that all staff records are kept up to date. · Have overall responsibility for the management of Human Resources (HR) related issues e.g. informal grievance, return to work interviews, sickness follow up counselling sessions and disciplinary matters. · Ensuring that all staff mandatory training requirements are kept up to date.· Ensure that staff appraisals are undertaken when they are due and are aligned to Organisational Objectives. · Provide advice and support to staff as required.· Encourage team development, sharing, discussing and implementing new ideas and methods of working.Other Duties:
The post holder will: · Encourage a culture of ethics, openness and transparency and as an individual, always operate in the best interests of the company; and leading by example, help to ensure that staff within the company consistently behave in a manner that reinforces the priorities and values of Atlas.
· Keep knowledge and skills up to date with Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and participate in the Atlas Mandatory Training scheme as appropriate.
· Where required, represent Atlas with active participation in both national and regional level external working groups.
· Undertake benchmarking exercises with appropriate datasets to seek continuous improvement ideas.
· Actively seek and promote collaborative work across the local healthcare economy.
· Attend periodic seminars / user groups organsised by NHS bodies in order to keep up to date with the latest policies and directives and to share best practice.
· Any other duties deemed commensurate with the post.
Please Note:
The job description is not intended to be exhaustive, and it is possible that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and following discussions with the postholder.
The post holder may be required to work across the Company at any time throughout the duration of their contract, which may entail travel and working at a different location and attending other sites as necessary.
Person specification
Knowledge / Experience
Essential criteria
- Fully qualified and full member of one of the main recognised professional Accounting bodies, namely the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), the Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW).
- Master’s degree or equivalent professional qualification.
- Evidence of management/leadership training and continuous professional development.
- Demonstrable experience of senior operational management in a large organisation.
- A successful track record of financial leadership and management in a complex organisation.
- A track record of achieving sustained organisational/service change and improvement with evidence of embedding culture and organisational values successfully and achieving workforce engagement delivering improved outcomes in quality, performance and service.
- Strong evidence of a collaborative management style, coupled with improving quality of service provision at a strategic level.
- In‐depth and up to date knowledge of national developments and active involvement in local and national networks.
- Broad experience both in the preparation and control of development programmes, building projects and in managing facility operations and maintenance service.
- Experience of instigating and supporting complex change to achieve continuous improvement and in delivering significant and transformational projects.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Well‐developed negotiation skills, together with the ability to tackle poor performance effectively.
- Proven analytical, numerical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make decisions by determining key points from complex data and multiple information strands.
- I.T. literate with well-developed skills for the use and application of information technology systems.
- A high degree of political sensitivity and experience of dealing with a range of issues in a complex stakeholder environment.
- Able to undertake horizon scanning activities to ensure that the Company can identify and maximise opportunities aligned to both local and national development trends.
- The ability to think and act strategically and to articulate a clear sense of direction and vision to a wide audience
- The ability to communicate complex issues to all levels of the organisation.
- Skills to empower, influence, coach, enable and support employees.
- Atlas is a busy and fast-paced growing organisation so you must be able to work to demanding timelines and be resilient under pressure.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- • Well‐developed negotiation skills, together with the ability to tackle poor performance effectively.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jonathan Philips
- Job title
- Recruitment Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07817988490
- Additional information
For an informal conversation about the role, please contact our recruitment partner Jonathan Phillips at Seymour John on 07817 988490 or email him [email protected]
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