Job summary
The Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate ("the Directorate") was established to provide professional support to Welsh Government to respond and deliver on the financial challenges facing NHS Wales. The Directorate operates across Wales and in support of all NHS Wales organisations as required. This includes:
Monitoring and managing financial risk in NHS Wales, responding at pace where organisations are demonstrating signs of financial concern.Support the robust development and delivery of in-year and medium term financial and resource plans.
Driving forward the efficiency agenda , working with NHS Wales organisations to ensure maximum return from efficiency opportunities.
Promote and embed best practice financial management and use of resources.
Developing a Centre of Excellence for Financial Information and Intelligence, reflecting costing, benchmarking, resource allocation, and utilisation, to assist in driving improvements on both technical and allocative efficiency across NHS Wales.
Lead research and identifying best practice in financial management and rapid adoption of proven practice and evidence in a consistent and comprehensive way across Wales. This includes best practice approaches, methodology, and deployment.
Support the development of Value Based Healthcare within NHS Wales as required.
The Directorate will enable this agenda and deliver these objectives through building effective relationships within and across NHS Wales, and Welsh Government.
Main duties of the job
The Directorate is passionate about people and professional development, with an ambitious development programme for the overall team and all team members. This role is an ideal opportunity for someone who is looking to develop their skills and experiences across a broad and exciting national agenda.
Your responsibilities will include:
Lead the production, validation and improvement of Welsh costing data, including the governance of costing and benchmarking practitioners in delivering this agenda.
Develop the use of costing data which includes connection and modelling with other data as part of 'big data', to support the wider planning and efficiency objectives of the Directorate. Including the integrity, quality assurance and maintenance of associated analysis products.Strategically and technically develop the associated national guidance and standards, cognisant of future direction and aligned through input from stakeholders.
Foster and maintain a lead relationship with costing and benchmarking system providers, on behalf of NHS Wales.
Contribute to the Value Based Health and Care agenda and direction, providing specific costing expertise and leadership. Acting as the lead contact with national programmes in this area to the VBHC programme.
Provide leadership and expertise in these topics that supports the education and development of others, including presenting complex data , to ensure that outputs are sufficiently understood and appropriately used.
About us
NHS Wales Performance and Improvement works in partnership for and on behalf of Welsh Government, in and with the NHS in Wales and is hosted by Public Health Wales.
Our key purpose is to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.
We do this by providing strong leadership and strategic direction - enabling, supporting, and directing NHS Wales to transform clinical services in line with national priorities and standards.
To find out more about working for us and the benefits we offer please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/careers/
For guidance on the application process, please visithttps://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance/
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role will have significant freedom to act, and as part of the senior team will operate at a strategic level with a number of Directors of Finance, executives from NHS Wales organisations, Welsh Government policy leads, national and international stakeholders, national clinical leads, and other NHS Wales teams including other Directorates within the NHS Executive. The Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate is passionate about people and professional development, with an ambitious development programme for the overall team and all team members. This role is an ideal opportunity for someone who is looking to develop their skills and experiences across a broad and exciting national agenda.
Your responsibilities will include:Providing the direct organisational liaison role to a number of NHS Wales organisations;
Providing support and challenge to specified NHS Wales organisations in line with the Welsh Government Escalation and Intervention Arrangements;
Providing financial leadership to national committees and programmes examining opportunities to improve value and financial sustainability within the Welsh NHS;
Leading on behalf of the Directorate the support and development of key areas of national policy and developments;
Providing the lead finance support role to Welsh Government policy leads on key NHS programme areas; and
Leading on behalf of the Directorate the relationship management and learning from key external stakeholders.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view on Trac.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role will have significant freedom to act, and as part of the senior team will operate at a strategic level with a number of Directors of Finance, executives from NHS Wales organisations, Welsh Government policy leads, national and international stakeholders, national clinical leads, and other NHS Wales teams including other Directorates within the NHS Executive. The Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate is passionate about people and professional development, with an ambitious development programme for the overall team and all team members. This role is an ideal opportunity for someone who is looking to develop their skills and experiences across a broad and exciting national agenda.
Your responsibilities will include:Providing the direct organisational liaison role to a number of NHS Wales organisations;
Providing support and challenge to specified NHS Wales organisations in line with the Welsh Government Escalation and Intervention Arrangements;
Providing financial leadership to national committees and programmes examining opportunities to improve value and financial sustainability within the Welsh NHS;
Leading on behalf of the Directorate the support and development of key areas of national policy and developments;
Providing the lead finance support role to Welsh Government policy leads on key NHS programme areas; and
Leading on behalf of the Directorate the relationship management and learning from key external stakeholders.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view on Trac.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- CCAB / CIMA qualified with current membership of that professional body.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Strong knowledge and experience of costing and understanding of differing forms and constructions, their uses and potential impacts, having developed experience of NHS Costing Returns through contribution across the preparation, education, production, analysis and benchmarking processes.
- A good level of knowledge and experience of analysing financial and non-financial data and in bringing this together for benchmarking presentation at all levels of an organisation.
Desirable
- Evidence of personal research that includes a financial perspective.
- Preparing stand-alone elements for inclusion in the Costing Returns and responsibility for explaining, addressing queries and requests for supplementary information. Including the analytical review and validation of costing systems.
- A sound understanding of improvement techniques
- A recognised leader, provide training, guidance and support to others in relation to all aspects of benchmarking.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience as a senior finance manager within large complex healthcare organisations
- Demonstrable understanding of the sourcing, connection and utilisation of a range of data
- Experience in strategy development and implementation, including the dissemination and operationalisation of strategy and improvement.
- Programme / Project Management experience
- A clear understanding and practical experience of applying the concepts of Prudent / Value-Based Healthcare
- Demonstrable experience of utilising and triangulating available data and benchmarking to provide insight and impact for action.
- Considerable knowledge and understanding of an organisation and the wider healthcare environment it operates within. Being able to discern and explain how an organisational model creates value for patients and other stakeholders.
- As part of a project or role to improve outcomes and sustainability across an organisation, building and nurturing effective relationships with key stakeholders and partners, that influenced clinical or operational change.
- Ability to influence at all levels and a highly strategic thinker.
Desirable
- Good knowledge of NHS Wales finance regime, including a thorough understanding of organisations financial duties, responsibilities and governance requirements
- A working knowledge of the NHS in other Devolved Nations and how Local Government operates.
- Record of effective contribution to the development of business strategies and business cases.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to model (consolidate, analyse and appropriately present) often highly complex information, both qualitative and quantitative, to constructively challenge and support senior leaders and operational teams.
- Proven ability and initiative to achieve targets and objectives within a demanding and pressured environment against challenging deadlines.
- Demonstrable commitment, resilience and success in building, leading, motivating, managing and developing self and teams.
- Able to interpret legislation and guidance as appropriate to the role.
- Able to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills, displaying credibility, influence and political acumen
- Ability to work independently to a specified remit, ensuring agreed deadlines and deliverables are met
- An ability to communicate excellently both verbally and in writing in a manner which is clear, fluent and persuasive, including resilience and reliability when meeting challenge or resistance to a topic.
- Self-motivated with the ability to proactively develop and manage fully formed team workplans from limited information, such as an identified system weakness or key information gap.
- Proficient in the use of standard Microsoft software, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to demonstrate understanding and application of our workplace values, together with the underpinning behaviours identified for success in this role.
Desirable
- Experience of working with staff, their representatives and professional organisations
- Skills to establish and maintain a peer network in a professional or technical area.
- Experience of negotiation and contract management
- Able to interpret legislation and develop guidance as appropriate to the role.
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable at level 1, e.g. introduce yourself, greet someone in person, answer the phone with a Welsh scripted greeting
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner to meet the needs of the service
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- CCAB / CIMA qualified with current membership of that professional body.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Strong knowledge and experience of costing and understanding of differing forms and constructions, their uses and potential impacts, having developed experience of NHS Costing Returns through contribution across the preparation, education, production, analysis and benchmarking processes.
- A good level of knowledge and experience of analysing financial and non-financial data and in bringing this together for benchmarking presentation at all levels of an organisation.
Desirable
- Evidence of personal research that includes a financial perspective.
- Preparing stand-alone elements for inclusion in the Costing Returns and responsibility for explaining, addressing queries and requests for supplementary information. Including the analytical review and validation of costing systems.
- A sound understanding of improvement techniques
- A recognised leader, provide training, guidance and support to others in relation to all aspects of benchmarking.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience as a senior finance manager within large complex healthcare organisations
- Demonstrable understanding of the sourcing, connection and utilisation of a range of data
- Experience in strategy development and implementation, including the dissemination and operationalisation of strategy and improvement.
- Programme / Project Management experience
- A clear understanding and practical experience of applying the concepts of Prudent / Value-Based Healthcare
- Demonstrable experience of utilising and triangulating available data and benchmarking to provide insight and impact for action.
- Considerable knowledge and understanding of an organisation and the wider healthcare environment it operates within. Being able to discern and explain how an organisational model creates value for patients and other stakeholders.
- As part of a project or role to improve outcomes and sustainability across an organisation, building and nurturing effective relationships with key stakeholders and partners, that influenced clinical or operational change.
- Ability to influence at all levels and a highly strategic thinker.
Desirable
- Good knowledge of NHS Wales finance regime, including a thorough understanding of organisations financial duties, responsibilities and governance requirements
- A working knowledge of the NHS in other Devolved Nations and how Local Government operates.
- Record of effective contribution to the development of business strategies and business cases.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to model (consolidate, analyse and appropriately present) often highly complex information, both qualitative and quantitative, to constructively challenge and support senior leaders and operational teams.
- Proven ability and initiative to achieve targets and objectives within a demanding and pressured environment against challenging deadlines.
- Demonstrable commitment, resilience and success in building, leading, motivating, managing and developing self and teams.
- Able to interpret legislation and guidance as appropriate to the role.
- Able to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills, displaying credibility, influence and political acumen
- Ability to work independently to a specified remit, ensuring agreed deadlines and deliverables are met
- An ability to communicate excellently both verbally and in writing in a manner which is clear, fluent and persuasive, including resilience and reliability when meeting challenge or resistance to a topic.
- Self-motivated with the ability to proactively develop and manage fully formed team workplans from limited information, such as an identified system weakness or key information gap.
- Proficient in the use of standard Microsoft software, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to demonstrate understanding and application of our workplace values, together with the underpinning behaviours identified for success in this role.
Desirable
- Experience of working with staff, their representatives and professional organisations
- Skills to establish and maintain a peer network in a professional or technical area.
- Experience of negotiation and contract management
- Able to interpret legislation and develop guidance as appropriate to the role.
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable at level 1, e.g. introduce yourself, greet someone in person, answer the phone with a Welsh scripted greeting
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner to meet the needs of the service
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
