Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Finance Manager for Planning and Efficiency to join the ICB.
This role is a key part of our planning and productivity hub as we deliver the ambitions of the 10 year Health Plan, including multiyear revenue and capital planning. With a significant NHS efficiency agenda, the team plays a pivotal role in developing new approaches over a longer planning horizon. The post supports insight into our cost base, behaviours, benchmarking and productivity metrics, enabling short, medium and long term thinking for sustainable healthcare across Essex.
You will support the Associate Director of Value, Planning & Productivity by interpreting productivity metrics and establishing indicators for the ICB. Benchmarking, horizon scanning and identifying value based improvements will be essential to delivering the medium term financial plan and shaping future financial conversations. Close working with finance and commercial teams will ensure accurate interpretation of plans into day to day delivery.
The role supports NHS transformation and value for money in planning, commissioning and service delivery. It is designed to build expertise and technical skills so the post holder can represent the needs and impact of the NHS in response to growth and changing demographics.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will hold a CCAB qualification or qualified by suitable experience.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Deliver strategic advice and operational guidance to support the development of appropriate solutions to underpin integrated care models and to ensure that digital enablers, system-wide working and best use of resources are included is plans.
- Contribute to setting long term strategy ensuring the aims and objectives of the ICB are embedded and progressively built upon within the setting of the strategy, as well as taking responsibility for the implementation of one or more plans which align to this strategy
- Develop and contribute to the financial framework, ensuring synergy with ICS and NHSE planning.
- Use of complex health data sets, including those relating to performance across activity, finance and quality to inform decision making
- Analysis of complex qualitative and quantitative data relating to Finance, demand and demographics.
- Turning analysis into useful insights that can be used to inform decision making
- Present highly complex data, information and insights, including qualitative and quantitative data, through clear and simple written and verbal briefings
Please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification for full details regarding the duties and responsibilities of the role.
About us
Mid and South Essex ICB is a statutory organisation responsible for the planning and delivery of local health and care services, across Mid and South Essex. As part of the changes to the NHS Commissioning landscape, the Mid and South Essex ICB will transition to the Essex ICB from the 1st April 2026. This role will be appointed as part of the new Essex ICB structure working across the whole county to improve the health of people who live and work in their area. The headquarters for the organisation is Seax House, Chelmsford, and we will operate a hybrid model of working, which includes working across Essex, and home working. The Essex ICB currently has offices in Brentwood, Harlow and Colchester as well as the Chelmsford HQ.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender, identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustment for people who have a disability.
Job description
Job responsibilities
ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY
The proposed Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) will be a new organisation formed through the consolidation of three ICB areas in response to the NHSs ambition to deliver a more streamlined, strategic and cost-effective model of health commissioning. The ICB will oversee the commissioning of care for the approximately 2 million people who live in Essex. Operating within a reduced running cost envelope and aligned to the new requirements of ICBs in England, the proposed Essex ICB will focus on improving population health outcomes, health equity and smarter resource allocation.
By establishing clear and transparent funding arrangements, triangulated with activity and workforce within our system we aim to support our collective understanding of how resources are allocated across the system for both revenue and capital.
This role forms a key part of our planning and productivity hub for the exciting developments in train as we deliver the ambitions of the 10 year Health Plan, including multi-year planning for revenue and capital. We have a significant productivity and efficiency agenda within the NHS right now. The team has a pivotal role to play in new ways of thinking and delivering over longer time planning horizon. They provide the insights to our collective cost base and behaviours as well as benchmarking opportunities and productivity metrics to produce insights to empower, short, medium and long-term thinking for future shifts and sustainability across health care in Essex.
This role will support the Associate Director Value, Planning & Productivity
to interpret productivity metrics and establish our own set of indicators for the ICB. Benchmarking, horizon scanning and an ability to see value based improvements, will be key to ensuring this role can support the delivery of the medium term financial plan and change the conversation around finance for the future. Working closely with the whole finance and commercial team to support accurate interpretation of the plan into everyday activities required for delivery.
The role supports the NHS in driving transformation as well as value for money in planning, commissioning and service delivery. The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to enable the post holder to represent the impact and needs of the NHS in response to development growth and changing demographics.
As the ICB transitions to become a leaner, more focused strategic commissioning organisation the post holder will be expected to support the Executive Director of Finance and Commercial, in delivering on the three fundamental shifts set out in the NHS 10-year plan:
- From Treatment to Prevention: Embedding preventative, personalised and population based approaches to commissioning.
- From Hospital to Community: Championing care model redesign that supports community and neighbourhood health.
- From Analogue to Digital: Enabling clinically driven transformation through digital innovation, data analytics and evidence based improvement.
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To deliver on the job description set out above, the job holder will be expected to deliver on the requirements set out below:
Policy and service development
- Implement policy and / or service developments.
- Ensure compliance with relevant ICB policies
- Use research and innovation to inform service improvements or performance management
- Deliver strategic advice and operational guidance to support the development of appropriate solutions to underpin integrated care models and to ensure that digital enablers, system-wide working and best use of resources are included is plans.
Strategy and analysis
- Contribute to setting long term strategy ensuring the aims and objectives of the ICB are embedded and progressively built upon within the setting of the strategy, as well as taking responsibility for the implementation of one or more plans which align to this strategy
- Develop and contribute to the financial framework, ensuring synergy with ICS and NHSE planning.
- Use of complex health data sets, including those relating to performance across activity, finance and quality to inform decision making
- Analysis of complex qualitative and quantitative data relating to Finance, demand and demographics.
- Turning analysis into useful insights that can be used to inform decision making
- Present highly complex data, information and insights, including qualitative and quantitative data, through clear and simple written and verbal briefings
- Use of Population Health Management methodologies and tools to inform projects and programmes that will improve outcomes for patients and sustainability of health services
- Support the evaluation of complex projects and to provide support to stakeholders to ensure development growth and mitigation opportunities are considered as part of strategic planning.
- Co-ordinate reporting relating to productivity and efficiency for the ICB.
- Work with the Assistant Directors of Finance to identify cash releasing and productivity opportunities and impacts for the ICB.
Planning and organisation
- Support the process for Improvement bids and schemes to be identified, prioritised, developed, reviewed and where relevant, successfully submitted to access external funding.
- Support the development of project plans to drive delivery of complex projects, with finance and activity information where necessary.
- Manage delivery against agreed project plan, ensuring appropriate governance, risk management, escalations and reporting
- Manage the day-to-day maintenance of the Essex ICB multi-year planning model.
- Support the delivery of plans for financial recovery.
Communications and Partnerships
- Work collaboratively, modelling inclusive, respectful and compassionate leadership
- Listen effectively to a broad range of perspectives, including staff, patients and the public, to inform decision making
- Present information and specialist training to large groups
- Build strong, trust-based relationships across the ICB, with NHS providers, local government, VCFSE partners and communities as needed
- Effective engagement with patients and the public as required
- Work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams to enable the collective ownership and delivery of projects that are seeking to improve outcomes, reduce inequalities and deliver a sustainable health and care system
- Share complex and challenging information which may relate to service performance or staffing
- Manage conflict, find compromise and build consensus where needed to drive progress in delivery
Financial and resource management
- Supporting the delivery of value for money across health care
- Support procurement of relevant services
Team management and capability building
- Support staff through ICB transition, including the development of teams to deliver on new ICB portfolios as agreed through transition
- Support the effective transition of relevant functions to new portfolios within or beyond the ICB to support the new NHS operating model, in line with the requirements of the Model ICB Blueprint
- Work collaboratively with partners to facilitate transitional arrangements
- Maintain a focus on quality, safety and affordability during transition
- Supporting effective Information Asset Management for the team
Other
- Use initiative and work with independency to deliver on requirements of the role
- Primarily desk-based work that requires use of visual display units, focused concentration and frequent participation in on-line or in person meetings
- Able to use software required to develop report, including ability to deliver high quality documents through Microsoft suite (word, power point, excel). Power BI and Finance related software.
Flexibility and evolving responsibilities
As the ICB continues to evolve, portfolios may be subject to change to reflect the needs of the organization, the health and care system and national policy direction. This may include adjustments to areas of responsibility or realignment of reporting structures.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
The post holder will need to build constructive relationships with partners from across the health and care system. Key relationships will be with:
- ICB senior leadership
- Information Governance team
- Health & Wellbeing Board officers
- Local Authority partners
- NHS Providers
- NHSEI regional partners
- VCFSE sector, local health entrepreneurs, campaigns groups and social media influencers and local employers
- Lease holders, third party developers, landlords, PFI or LIFT company.
Job description
Job responsibilities
ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY
The proposed Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) will be a new organisation formed through the consolidation of three ICB areas in response to the NHSs ambition to deliver a more streamlined, strategic and cost-effective model of health commissioning. The ICB will oversee the commissioning of care for the approximately 2 million people who live in Essex. Operating within a reduced running cost envelope and aligned to the new requirements of ICBs in England, the proposed Essex ICB will focus on improving population health outcomes, health equity and smarter resource allocation.
By establishing clear and transparent funding arrangements, triangulated with activity and workforce within our system we aim to support our collective understanding of how resources are allocated across the system for both revenue and capital.
This role forms a key part of our planning and productivity hub for the exciting developments in train as we deliver the ambitions of the 10 year Health Plan, including multi-year planning for revenue and capital. We have a significant productivity and efficiency agenda within the NHS right now. The team has a pivotal role to play in new ways of thinking and delivering over longer time planning horizon. They provide the insights to our collective cost base and behaviours as well as benchmarking opportunities and productivity metrics to produce insights to empower, short, medium and long-term thinking for future shifts and sustainability across health care in Essex.
This role will support the Associate Director Value, Planning & Productivity
to interpret productivity metrics and establish our own set of indicators for the ICB. Benchmarking, horizon scanning and an ability to see value based improvements, will be key to ensuring this role can support the delivery of the medium term financial plan and change the conversation around finance for the future. Working closely with the whole finance and commercial team to support accurate interpretation of the plan into everyday activities required for delivery.
The role supports the NHS in driving transformation as well as value for money in planning, commissioning and service delivery. The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to enable the post holder to represent the impact and needs of the NHS in response to development growth and changing demographics.
As the ICB transitions to become a leaner, more focused strategic commissioning organisation the post holder will be expected to support the Executive Director of Finance and Commercial, in delivering on the three fundamental shifts set out in the NHS 10-year plan:
- From Treatment to Prevention: Embedding preventative, personalised and population based approaches to commissioning.
- From Hospital to Community: Championing care model redesign that supports community and neighbourhood health.
- From Analogue to Digital: Enabling clinically driven transformation through digital innovation, data analytics and evidence based improvement.
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To deliver on the job description set out above, the job holder will be expected to deliver on the requirements set out below:
Policy and service development
- Implement policy and / or service developments.
- Ensure compliance with relevant ICB policies
- Use research and innovation to inform service improvements or performance management
- Deliver strategic advice and operational guidance to support the development of appropriate solutions to underpin integrated care models and to ensure that digital enablers, system-wide working and best use of resources are included is plans.
Strategy and analysis
- Contribute to setting long term strategy ensuring the aims and objectives of the ICB are embedded and progressively built upon within the setting of the strategy, as well as taking responsibility for the implementation of one or more plans which align to this strategy
- Develop and contribute to the financial framework, ensuring synergy with ICS and NHSE planning.
- Use of complex health data sets, including those relating to performance across activity, finance and quality to inform decision making
- Analysis of complex qualitative and quantitative data relating to Finance, demand and demographics.
- Turning analysis into useful insights that can be used to inform decision making
- Present highly complex data, information and insights, including qualitative and quantitative data, through clear and simple written and verbal briefings
- Use of Population Health Management methodologies and tools to inform projects and programmes that will improve outcomes for patients and sustainability of health services
- Support the evaluation of complex projects and to provide support to stakeholders to ensure development growth and mitigation opportunities are considered as part of strategic planning.
- Co-ordinate reporting relating to productivity and efficiency for the ICB.
- Work with the Assistant Directors of Finance to identify cash releasing and productivity opportunities and impacts for the ICB.
Planning and organisation
- Support the process for Improvement bids and schemes to be identified, prioritised, developed, reviewed and where relevant, successfully submitted to access external funding.
- Support the development of project plans to drive delivery of complex projects, with finance and activity information where necessary.
- Manage delivery against agreed project plan, ensuring appropriate governance, risk management, escalations and reporting
- Manage the day-to-day maintenance of the Essex ICB multi-year planning model.
- Support the delivery of plans for financial recovery.
Communications and Partnerships
- Work collaboratively, modelling inclusive, respectful and compassionate leadership
- Listen effectively to a broad range of perspectives, including staff, patients and the public, to inform decision making
- Present information and specialist training to large groups
- Build strong, trust-based relationships across the ICB, with NHS providers, local government, VCFSE partners and communities as needed
- Effective engagement with patients and the public as required
- Work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams to enable the collective ownership and delivery of projects that are seeking to improve outcomes, reduce inequalities and deliver a sustainable health and care system
- Share complex and challenging information which may relate to service performance or staffing
- Manage conflict, find compromise and build consensus where needed to drive progress in delivery
Financial and resource management
- Supporting the delivery of value for money across health care
- Support procurement of relevant services
Team management and capability building
- Support staff through ICB transition, including the development of teams to deliver on new ICB portfolios as agreed through transition
- Support the effective transition of relevant functions to new portfolios within or beyond the ICB to support the new NHS operating model, in line with the requirements of the Model ICB Blueprint
- Work collaboratively with partners to facilitate transitional arrangements
- Maintain a focus on quality, safety and affordability during transition
- Supporting effective Information Asset Management for the team
Other
- Use initiative and work with independency to deliver on requirements of the role
- Primarily desk-based work that requires use of visual display units, focused concentration and frequent participation in on-line or in person meetings
- Able to use software required to develop report, including ability to deliver high quality documents through Microsoft suite (word, power point, excel). Power BI and Finance related software.
Flexibility and evolving responsibilities
As the ICB continues to evolve, portfolios may be subject to change to reflect the needs of the organization, the health and care system and national policy direction. This may include adjustments to areas of responsibility or realignment of reporting structures.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
The post holder will need to build constructive relationships with partners from across the health and care system. Key relationships will be with:
- ICB senior leadership
- Information Governance team
- Health & Wellbeing Board officers
- Local Authority partners
- NHS Providers
- NHSEI regional partners
- VCFSE sector, local health entrepreneurs, campaigns groups and social media influencers and local employers
- Lease holders, third party developers, landlords, PFI or LIFT company.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level (relevant focus) or equivalent managerial experience
- Evidence of sustained commitment to continuing professional development
- CCAB qualified or qualified by suitable experience
Partnership and Communities
Essential
- Experience working across organisational boundaries in the development and delivery of projects
- Experience working on projects that require cross-organisational collaboration, and an understanding of the concept and aims of whole system working
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills, challenging within areas of responsibility and escalating appropriately where necessary
People and Culture
Essential
- Able to represent the organisation credibly and positively in internal and external meetings
- Experience working on projects that require cross- organisational collaboration, and an understanding of the concept and aims of whole system working
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills, challenging within areas of responsibility and escalating appropriately where necessary
Strategy and Analysis
Essential
- Experience using analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex problems, ability to recognise policy implications and how to manage potential competing priorities / interests in developing strategies
- Strong data analysis and interpretation skills involving highly complex data, including an understanding of analytical methods and how to use data to support Population Health Management
- Experience scoping and delivering effective evaluations of projects and interventions, including understanding relevant data and evaluation tools and methods for formal and informal evaluations
Governance and Assurance
Essential
- Previous experience of leading projects that require collective decision making and how to negotiate success in those situations
- A good understanding effective corporate governance and the route for decision making within the ICB
Personal Attributes and Values
Essential
- Personal commitment to the values of the NHS 10-year Plan, the NHS People Plan, the Nolan Principles, to championing equality, diversity and inclusion within the ICB and the wide health system
- Able to work as part of a team and independently
- Advanced IT skills in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and excellent keyboarding skills
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working at a senior level in a relevant healthcare environment (NHS or other)
- Experience of leading and delivering complex and contentious change and transformation projects
- Evidence of ability to set and manage budgets to deliver corporate requirements and within health and care financial frameworks
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level (relevant focus) or equivalent managerial experience
- Evidence of sustained commitment to continuing professional development
- CCAB qualified or qualified by suitable experience
Partnership and Communities
Essential
- Experience working across organisational boundaries in the development and delivery of projects
- Experience working on projects that require cross-organisational collaboration, and an understanding of the concept and aims of whole system working
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills, challenging within areas of responsibility and escalating appropriately where necessary
People and Culture
Essential
- Able to represent the organisation credibly and positively in internal and external meetings
- Experience working on projects that require cross- organisational collaboration, and an understanding of the concept and aims of whole system working
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills, challenging within areas of responsibility and escalating appropriately where necessary
Strategy and Analysis
Essential
- Experience using analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex problems, ability to recognise policy implications and how to manage potential competing priorities / interests in developing strategies
- Strong data analysis and interpretation skills involving highly complex data, including an understanding of analytical methods and how to use data to support Population Health Management
- Experience scoping and delivering effective evaluations of projects and interventions, including understanding relevant data and evaluation tools and methods for formal and informal evaluations
Governance and Assurance
Essential
- Previous experience of leading projects that require collective decision making and how to negotiate success in those situations
- A good understanding effective corporate governance and the route for decision making within the ICB
Personal Attributes and Values
Essential
- Personal commitment to the values of the NHS 10-year Plan, the NHS People Plan, the Nolan Principles, to championing equality, diversity and inclusion within the ICB and the wide health system
- Able to work as part of a team and independently
- Advanced IT skills in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and excellent keyboarding skills
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working at a senior level in a relevant healthcare environment (NHS or other)
- Experience of leading and delivering complex and contentious change and transformation projects
- Evidence of ability to set and manage budgets to deliver corporate requirements and within health and care financial frameworks
