Job responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY
1.1
Provide financial leadership and technical advice
on some of the Trusts strategic priorities which include Monthly Service Line
Reporting, the introduction of Patient Level Costing and development of Mental
Health Payment Currencies.
1.2
Provide highly skilled financial management and
technical support across the organisation including Deputy BDU Directors, and
clinical leads particularly in relation to Service Line Reporting.
1.3
Responsibility for producing and submitting nationally
mandated cost returns.
1.4
Develop the reporting of income, expenditure, and
contribution into the Trusts Business Delivery Units through establishing
effective systems and reporting requirements to ensure BDUs understand the
costs profile of their business.
1.5
Develop trading accounts and service line reports
to show profit/loss of clinical activities.
1.6
To identify and agree which direct, indirect, and
overhead costs are allocated to Business Delivery Units ensuring a fair
distribution of these resources, and to work with clinical, operational
management and finance colleagues to provide information on activities which
are driving the costs.
1.7
To provide benchmarking information internally and
externally for management purposes and for the National Benchmarking network submissions
for use in model hospital etc and provide comparisons at national and/or peer
group level.
1.8
To keep up to date with the developments regarding
the National Costing Transformation Agenda and Approved Costing Guidance to
ensure compliance.
1.9
Provide Ad Hoc Reports for Management and Commissioners.
2. Key Relationships
The Finance
Manager Management Accountant will be required to establish and maintain good
working relationships with:
2.1 Staff,
at all levels, within the Trust, in delivering quality financial services and
providing technical financial advice.
2.2 BDU
Deputy Directors and Senior Finance Managers helping them develop their commercial
financial expertise and understanding the impact on their services.
2.3 Members
of the multidisciplinary project team (Ex. Costing Steering Group and Performance
and Information colleagues)
2.4 Trusts
costing software suppliers, including ensuring that all software updates are
actioned within a reasonable timeframe.
2.5 Clinical and operational managers promoting
service line reporting
2.6 Networking with External Costing Colleagues
2.7 Commissioners and other external agencies
2.8 The Trusts Internal and External Auditors
3. Key Result Areas:
Costing
3.1
Lead responsibility for producing a full patient
level costing analysis (PLICS) and submission of nationally mandated cost
returns on behalf of South West Yorkshire NHS Foundation Trust in line with
prescribed guidance and time scales
3.2
Lead on the development and maintenance of the
costing system and in particular ensuring cost drivers are accurate and
understood/agreed by BDU Directors and clinical leads to enable BDUs to
understand the cost profile of the business
3.3
Maintain an effective working relationship with the
Trusts costing software supplier, including ensuring that all software updates
are actioned within a reasonable timeframe.
3.4
Maintain a detailed understanding of all current
healthcare costing standards, assessing the Trusts degree of compliance with
those standards and will maintain an action plan to ensure future compliance
3.5
Maintain both a national cost submission plan in
summary format and costing procedures detailing the processes involved to
produce PLCs and SLR.
3.6
Develop systems to collate activity required to
support National Cost Submission (Education and Training cost
analysis/Radiology & Pathology test data) etc
3.7
Costing Lead will also participate in delivery of
training to finance and non-finance staff to promote understanding and use of PLICs
information.
Service Line
Reporting
3.8
To assist the Head of Financial Development on the
development of Service Line Reporting working in conjunction with clinical, service
and information colleagues, helping develop their commercial and financial
expertise and understanding the inter-relationships between income and variable
costs.
3.9
To lead on the system development and reporting
dashboards to ensure the system is flexible to meet organisational priorities
and is integrated with other reporting systems.
3.10
To identify and agree which direct, indirect and
overhead costs are allocated to BDUs ensuring a fair distribution of these
resources in line with costing guidance, and to work with clinical and
operational management colleagues to provide information on activities which
are driving costs
3.11
Work closely with finance colleagues to regularly
review cost allocation methods
3.12
Develop trading accounts and service line reports
to show profit/loss of clinical activities.
3.13
Develop service line reporting to support the
ongoing assessment of financial viability of services, use of resources and
identify areas for further investigation to achieve financial objectives.
3.14
Production of programme budgeting information for
CCGs/ICS returns.
3.15
To provide costing and pricing information to
support business cases and for bids and tenders for clinical and other service
provision and for Annual Planning cycle.
3.16
To undertake benchmarking exercises with other
Trusts/organisations to identify variances, enhance the Trusts performance and
identify areas for cost improvement.
3.17
To train and develop staff to use the system and
roll out to Business Delivery Units to promote understanding of SLR information
within BDUs.
3.18
Develop SLR reporting for use by Commissioners/ICS.
3.19
To support wider finance team in the accounting,
monitoring, allocation and reconciliation of all Trust contracted income.
Payment Currencies
3.20
Keep up to date with the development of national payment
currencies/blended payments including participation in webinars and costing
forums ensuring any proposals are communicated to the Director of Finance to ensure
any financial risks can be assessed and have ownership within the organisation.
3.21
To take the lead on completing developing costing
models in relation to payment currencies and ensure that activity and finance systems
are fit for purpose in particular the costing model, to support payment and
ensure other modules are developed to provide monitoring and analysis.
3.22
A key member of the multidisciplinary project team,
work to improve the accuracy and quality of the activity information in conjunction
with information and service managers
3.23
In conjunction with Information and Service
Managers, develop the reporting information and analysis required by
commissioners. This includes contract performance and benchmarking information.
Strategic Financial
Planning
3.24
Provide financial advice and support to the
integrated business plan
3.25
Develop benchmarking information (financial and non
financial) in support of the Trusts transformation programmes and to identify
areas for cost improvement or income growth
3.26
Produce information to support the annual plan,
ensuring consistency with Business Delivery Unit Plans and highlighting key
assumptions and potential financial risks.
Financial Reporting
3.27
To support the Head of Financial Development in
Board report production, Executive Management Team reporting, CIP performance
management and reporting, working with stakeholders to assess the effectiveness
of reporting and meet the end user needs.
3.28
To support the Head of Financial Development in the
delivery of NHS Improvement returns in line with national timetables
3.29
Delivery of Costing outputs to support the Trusts
annual planning cycle
Trust
Values:
The Trust
is committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects
that all staff treat people e.g, service users, their carers, relatives,
friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with dignity and respectat all time. The post holder must all time act in accordance with the Trusts Values:
Honest, open, transparent
Respectful
Person first and in the centre
Improve and be outstanding
Relevant today, ready for tomorrow
Families and carers matter
Safeguarding:
Report
any concerns regarding the safety or wellbeing of children, adults service
users, members of their families etc, in
accordance with Trust Policy.
Prevent
and respond appropriately to abuse and understand own role in this by
undertaking Safeguarding training.
