Job summary
An exciting career opportunity has arisen for an Associate Director of Finance to join our Finance Team at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
The purpose of this role is to provide financial leadership to the income and R&I teams using all available informatics to support delivery of a sustainable organisation.
Main duties of the job
The main focus of the Associate Director of Income and contracting are:
- Research Finance - ensuring that external and internal funds are appropriately allocated and reported
- To lead negotiations with NHSE and Commissioners on c£550m NHS income
- To develop a new reporting suite for research and IPC that is clear and transparent and drives organisational performance
This role will focus on utilising and understanding all available benchmarking data to drive conversations across the Trust to reset the underlying financial position. The role will provide expert knowledge and advice to the Trust and the wider system in relation to the benchmarked performance of the Trust. They will develop and maintain the narrative for the positioning of the Trust in these datasets to support improvements in financial performance and the standing of the Trust.
They will develop expert knowledge of the positioning of the Trust in benchmarking performance data from a range of sources and utilise this to support service and financial performance improvement.
About us
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) is an international centre of excellence in child healthcare. GOSH is an acute specialist paediatric hospital with a mission to provide world-class care to children and young people with rare, complex, and difficult-to-treat conditions.
Great Ormond Street Hospital receives nearly 300,000 patient visits (inpatient admissions or outpatient appointments) every year (figures from 2018/19). Most of the children we care for are referred from other hospitals throughout the UK and overseas. There are 60 nationally recognised clinical specialities at GOSH; the UK's widest range of specialist health services for children on one site. More than half of our patients come from outside London and GOSH is the largest paediatric centre in the UK for services including paediatric intensive care and cardiac surgery.
GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent, and free from bias and discrimination.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view the attachment below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view the attachment below.
Person Specification
Values
Essential
- Our Always values oAlways welcoming oAlways helpful oAlways expert oAlways one team
- Knowledge and understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives
- Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace
- Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential
- Professional Accountancy Qualification i.e., ACCA, CIMA, ACA or CIPFA
- Educated to first degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Project management qualification e.g., Prince 2, Managing Successful Projects of equivalent
- Better Business Case Foundation and Practitioner
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Substantial Senior Financial Management experience in the NHS Acute Trust Sector preferably in a large Teaching Hospital or a Specialist Provider.
- Experience of providing financial leadership to large scale CIP/Transformation programmes including assessing viability of initiatives, providing assurance on delivery of projects, and assessing benefits realisation.
- Experience of co-ordinating multiple complex projects with co-dependencies where demonstrable benefits were delivered.
- Subject matter expertise in financial and economic aspects of project and programme management; analysis of project proposals and business case development; understanding of the necessary stages of implementation of innovative projects in a health and social care environment.
- Working Knowledge of health and social care roles, responsibilities, priorities and policy direction.
- Experience and Knowledge of designing and implementing robust governance arrangements for major work programmes including ensuring compliance.
Desirable
- Experience of leading Major Projects and development of HM Treasury Green Book compliant business cases
- Knowledge of the main procurement legislation applicable to NHS and/or social care commissioned services.
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Strong Communication skill able to express subject matter expertise confidently and authoritatively to both finance and non-finance staff.
- Ability to influence across teams, departments, and organisations to achieve strategic outcomes and objectives.
- Able to prepare clear, concise, grammatical, correctly referenced and version-controlled reports and documents.
- Verbally confident and able to articulate the rationale for their position and listen attentively and genuinely to others.
- Ability to work and communicate with clinicians and senior managers.
- Makes use of numerical data naturally, often and with ease.
- Leadership attributes and competencies with a high degree of self- awareness.
- Highly developed analytical, negotiating and influencing skills.
- Able to model large volumes of data and complex scenarios in order to support processes of critical appraisal of business cases including own use of tools such as intermediate Excel and NHS Comparator tools.
- Ability to work under pressure and within set timescales.
- Ability to work in a matrix structure and line manage staff.
- Ability to deal with complexity and ambiguity with resilience to resolve issues and achieve desired outcomes.
- Flexible and adaptable to change.
- Able to demonstrate a high level of self -awareness and a commitment to self-development.
- Ability to work as part of a team and actively contribute to its success.
- Ability to work flexibly.
Desirable
- Experience of preparing service specifications
Person Specification
Values
Essential
- Our Always values oAlways welcoming oAlways helpful oAlways expert oAlways one team
- Knowledge and understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives
- Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace
- Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential
- Professional Accountancy Qualification i.e., ACCA, CIMA, ACA or CIPFA
- Educated to first degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Project management qualification e.g., Prince 2, Managing Successful Projects of equivalent
- Better Business Case Foundation and Practitioner
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Substantial Senior Financial Management experience in the NHS Acute Trust Sector preferably in a large Teaching Hospital or a Specialist Provider.
- Experience of providing financial leadership to large scale CIP/Transformation programmes including assessing viability of initiatives, providing assurance on delivery of projects, and assessing benefits realisation.
- Experience of co-ordinating multiple complex projects with co-dependencies where demonstrable benefits were delivered.
- Subject matter expertise in financial and economic aspects of project and programme management; analysis of project proposals and business case development; understanding of the necessary stages of implementation of innovative projects in a health and social care environment.
- Working Knowledge of health and social care roles, responsibilities, priorities and policy direction.
- Experience and Knowledge of designing and implementing robust governance arrangements for major work programmes including ensuring compliance.
Desirable
- Experience of leading Major Projects and development of HM Treasury Green Book compliant business cases
- Knowledge of the main procurement legislation applicable to NHS and/or social care commissioned services.
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Strong Communication skill able to express subject matter expertise confidently and authoritatively to both finance and non-finance staff.
- Ability to influence across teams, departments, and organisations to achieve strategic outcomes and objectives.
- Able to prepare clear, concise, grammatical, correctly referenced and version-controlled reports and documents.
- Verbally confident and able to articulate the rationale for their position and listen attentively and genuinely to others.
- Ability to work and communicate with clinicians and senior managers.
- Makes use of numerical data naturally, often and with ease.
- Leadership attributes and competencies with a high degree of self- awareness.
- Highly developed analytical, negotiating and influencing skills.
- Able to model large volumes of data and complex scenarios in order to support processes of critical appraisal of business cases including own use of tools such as intermediate Excel and NHS Comparator tools.
- Ability to work under pressure and within set timescales.
- Ability to work in a matrix structure and line manage staff.
- Ability to deal with complexity and ambiguity with resilience to resolve issues and achieve desired outcomes.
- Flexible and adaptable to change.
- Able to demonstrate a high level of self -awareness and a commitment to self-development.
- Ability to work as part of a team and actively contribute to its success.
- Ability to work flexibly.
Desirable
- Experience of preparing service specifications
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JH
Employer's website
https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
