Job summary
Buckinghamshire,
Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB) is seeking to
appoint a Head of POD/
Primary Care Finance Business Partnering.
You will need to be a CCAB qualified accountant with considerable post
qualification experience at a senior level with extensive knowledge of the NHS
financial regime and experience of Delegated Primary Care functions, assessing
value for money opportunities and evaluating transformation projects.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for providing the ICB with a professional financial management service ensuring that financial information is produced and reported in accordance with the ICB requirements for both planning and performance management purposes. You will also ensure that budgets are set in accordance with the ICB requirements, and that all decisions on changes to service provision within the ICB are made in the full knowledge of both the long and short term financial consequences.
About us
In
the heart of the Thames Valley is our Integrated Care Board (ICB). It covers
the geography across three counties and goes in line with the local authority
boundaries of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire and
Wokingham. Our geography covers a population of nearly 1.8 million. While
overall in good health and socio-economic condition, alongside affluence we
have pockets of severe deprivation.
Our
constituent organisations include 175 GP surgeries, 5 local authorities, 3
acute hospital trusts, 2 mental health and community providers, 1 ambulance
trust and a single operating model across all of this, spending £2.5bn of
public money each year.
We
value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for
all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the
communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership
and particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and
minority ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from
people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all
under-represented in these important roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
postholder will be responsible for providing the ICB with a professional
financial management service ensuring that financial information is produced
and reported in accordance with the ICB requirements for both planning and
performance management purposes.
The
postholder will be responsible for ensuring that budgets are set in accordance
with the ICB requirements. They will ensure that all decisions on changes to
service provision within the ICB are made in the full knowledge of both the
long and short term financial consequences.
The postholder
will be responsible for the ICB Delegated Primary Care & POD team.
Providing overall professional leadership and management to all aspects of
Primary Medical Care and the delegated POD allocations.
The post holder is responsible for the management and co-ordination of
the Delegated Primary Care & POD team resources to produce accurate,
complete and timely periodic internal and external financial reports and
monitoring returns. The post holder is responsible for the presentation of this
information and the provision of effective and pertinent analysis of the
financial reports to support the senior finance team in effectively identifying
and managing risk and delivering financial performance objectives.
As a direct report
to the Associate Director of management accounts and business partnering the
post holder will be required to arrange and control their own workload as well
as the staff within the department and is expected to operate with a high
degree of autonomy and demonstrate senior professional experience and standards.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
postholder will be responsible for providing the ICB with a professional
financial management service ensuring that financial information is produced
and reported in accordance with the ICB requirements for both planning and
performance management purposes.
The
postholder will be responsible for ensuring that budgets are set in accordance
with the ICB requirements. They will ensure that all decisions on changes to
service provision within the ICB are made in the full knowledge of both the
long and short term financial consequences.
The postholder
will be responsible for the ICB Delegated Primary Care & POD team.
Providing overall professional leadership and management to all aspects of
Primary Medical Care and the delegated POD allocations.
The post holder is responsible for the management and co-ordination of
the Delegated Primary Care & POD team resources to produce accurate,
complete and timely periodic internal and external financial reports and
monitoring returns. The post holder is responsible for the presentation of this
information and the provision of effective and pertinent analysis of the
financial reports to support the senior finance team in effectively identifying
and managing risk and delivering financial performance objectives.
As a direct report
to the Associate Director of management accounts and business partnering the
post holder will be required to arrange and control their own workload as well
as the staff within the department and is expected to operate with a high
degree of autonomy and demonstrate senior professional experience and standards.
Person Specification
Skills, Knowledge & Competencies
Essential
- Demonstrates the application of professional ethics, values, and judgement in support of the core values underpinning the Finance Department.
- Ability to manage highly confidential, complex, sensitive or contentious information in an appropriate and discreet manner.
- Personal credibility and integrity, with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of others including clinicians, managers, and staff, and build positive and constructive relationships both internally and externally.
- Ability to present complex and sensitive information to persuade Board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options.
- Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise, yet insightful communications of complex, sensitive or contentious information for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities as required.
- Autonomy to undertake actions because of own interpretation of policy and guidance, providing a source of expert advice to the organisation.
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a team and across teams and multiple functions, demonstrating influencing and negotiation skills needed to overcome significant barriers to acceptance.
- Proven track record of managing financial strategy, plans and forecasting to successfully deliver financial targets.
- Independent thinker, innovative and imaginative, with good judgement, problem-solving and advanced analytical skills, able to solve complex and multi-dimensional issues.
- Excellent inter-personal skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
- Ability to represent the Trust confidently at external meetings as well as representing Finance at internal meetings.
- Advanced IT software analysis skills using Excel & databases. To include ability to quickly analyse data using pivot tables and interact with databases to pull out key data.
- Excellent customer service skills. Responsive, informative and operates with integrity and openness.
Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB qualified accountant with considerable post qualification experience at a senior level.
- Significant post qualification experience in a financial management role at a senior management level. (3 years or more)
Experience
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of NHS financial regime, acquired through equivalent experience or training.
- Experience of national tariffs, assessing value for money opportunities and evaluating transformation projects.
-
- Subject matter expertise across several key areas relating to corporate performance reporting and monitoring.
- Evidenced continuous professional development record.
Person Specification
Skills, Knowledge & Competencies
Essential
- Demonstrates the application of professional ethics, values, and judgement in support of the core values underpinning the Finance Department.
- Ability to manage highly confidential, complex, sensitive or contentious information in an appropriate and discreet manner.
- Personal credibility and integrity, with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of others including clinicians, managers, and staff, and build positive and constructive relationships both internally and externally.
- Ability to present complex and sensitive information to persuade Board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options.
- Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise, yet insightful communications of complex, sensitive or contentious information for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities as required.
- Autonomy to undertake actions because of own interpretation of policy and guidance, providing a source of expert advice to the organisation.
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a team and across teams and multiple functions, demonstrating influencing and negotiation skills needed to overcome significant barriers to acceptance.
- Proven track record of managing financial strategy, plans and forecasting to successfully deliver financial targets.
- Independent thinker, innovative and imaginative, with good judgement, problem-solving and advanced analytical skills, able to solve complex and multi-dimensional issues.
- Excellent inter-personal skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
- Ability to represent the Trust confidently at external meetings as well as representing Finance at internal meetings.
- Advanced IT software analysis skills using Excel & databases. To include ability to quickly analyse data using pivot tables and interact with databases to pull out key data.
- Excellent customer service skills. Responsive, informative and operates with integrity and openness.
Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB qualified accountant with considerable post qualification experience at a senior level.
- Significant post qualification experience in a financial management role at a senior management level. (3 years or more)
Experience
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of NHS financial regime, acquired through equivalent experience or training.
- Experience of national tariffs, assessing value for money opportunities and evaluating transformation projects.
-
- Subject matter expertise across several key areas relating to corporate performance reporting and monitoring.
- Evidenced continuous professional development record.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
