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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.
Contact
- Address
- Wellington House
- 133-155 Waterloo Road
- London
- SE1 8UG
- Contact Number
- 0300 330 1369
Director of Operational Finance
Closed for applications on: 17-Jun-2025 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 17-Jun-2025 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- 10 South Colonnade
- Address
- Canary Wharf
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- E14 4PU
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (until 9th December 2025 - Secondment only for current NHS employees)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £100,000 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (ESM 1)
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.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
We are now recruiting to the Operational Director of Finance post to join the London Regional Director of Finance (RDoF) as part of the senior finance leadership team for secondment cover (5-6 months). This role is responsible for all aspects of operational finance, supporting financial performance across London systems. There is phenomenal talent across our finance community and this could be an opportunity for a senior accountant who is looking to take the next step of their career or looking for a change to experience a different sector within healthcare finance.
The ideal candidate will be:
- CCAB qualified with extensive experience and full up to date membership and continuing professional development
- Experience at Deputy Director of Finance or equivalent level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Significant experience of large scale short, medium and long-term planning and performance management processes- supporting both organisations which are succeeding and those which are failing
- Excellent leadership skills which positively motivate, empower and engage staff with a clear vision and shared goals
- Values diversity and difference operating with integrity and openness
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This role provides a great prospect for the post holder to work on the bigger picture and get exposure to a wide range of issues and contribute to a range of initiatives across 5 local systems and supporting all organisations to meet our financial objectives. The post holder will also have significant exposure to senior regional and national colleagues as well as deputising for the RDoF across a range of financial matters.
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.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
The RDoF would welcome an informal chat with anyone who may be interested in the role.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
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.
We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.
If applying for this role on a secondment basis, please make sure you have obtained prior agreement from your current line manager to apply for this position.
Please note that we currently do not accept applications via recruitment agencies.
To comply with the HM Government Functional Standard GovS 007, and specifically the Personnel Security Standards 2024, individuals employed or contracted by NHS England may be required to undergo a Baseline Personnel Security Standards check, dependent on the role.
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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB qualified with extensive experience and full up to date membership and continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Educated to Masters’ degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent level of experience of working in a similar level in a relevant discipline
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience at Deputy Director of Finance or equivalent level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Knowledge and experience of current NHS financial frameworks, targets and regimes – provider and commissioner.
- Excellent knowledge and experience of all aspects of financial governance such as internal audit, counter fraud and internal control and risk management systems
- Track record of providing appropriate advice, support, judgements and decision making
- Commercially aware, with significant expertise in such as areas as contract management, investment appraisal
- An effective people manager, who sets high standards, motivates and develops staff and stakeholders and promotes personal, organisational and cultural development.
- Significant experience of large scale short, medium and long-term planning and performance management processes - supporting both organisations which are succeeding and those which are failing
- Experience of prioritising and managing significant resources including budgets in a way which delivers value for money.
- Experience of planning and delivering large scale efficiency programmes.
Desirable criteria
- Experience at Board level in both provider and commissioner sectors
Skills, Abilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Able to work effectively between strategic and operational activities.
- Ability to analyse complex problems qualitatively and quantitatively to facilitate the development of plans and processes which are shared and delivered across multiple teams
- Demonstrated capacity to act on incomplete information, using experience to make inferences for decision making.
- Able to manage own workload, working to tight and often changing timescales timescales. Able to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Excellent leadership skills which positively motivate, empower and engage staff with a clear vision and shared goals
- Relevant experience of establishing and maintaining effective relationships with stakeholders both within the NHS and externally.
- Effective negotiator with highly developed influencing skills to support agreements amongst a range of stakeholders with complex multi-dimensional challenges
- Ability to give clear advice and guidance to a range of audiences
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to influence and manage difficult and sensitive issues and challenge constructively
- Emotional resilience including when under pressure from senior and external stakeholders
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promoting high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
Other
Essential criteria
- Values based leadership style
- Values diversity and difference operating with integrity and openness
Documents
- Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 440.4KB)
- Occupational Functional Requirements Form (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
- Hannah Witty
- Job title
- Regional Director of Finance- NHSE London
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07730375609
- Additional information
Please contact Hannah Witty- [email protected] if you wish to discuss the role.
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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