Job summary
Come and work in a Team who have an aim 'To inspire and develop, so that people feel enabled to achieve success. ' A fantastic opportunity to join the Swansea Bay University Health Board Finance Team has arisen and we are looking for an exceptional candidate who can operate in a fast-paced and exciting environment and who can bring both previous experience but also innovative thinking and a dynamic approach to the team. You will be a CCAB fully qualified accountant, with experience of operating at a senior management level, experience of leading a team and a high level to technical expertise. You also will have excellent interpersonal, presentation, analytical and critical thinking skills and have experience of dealing with difficult situations and the ability to manage conflict in a positive and professional manner. You will be a compassionate and strategic leader and be able to effectively communicate and build strong working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
Main duties of the job
The post reports to the Deputy Director of Finance, working strategically with limited guidance, managing complex and sensitive information daily. They will deputise for the Deputy Director of Finance when needed. As a senior member of the Finance Department and Health Board, the role involves collaborating with Executive Directors, senior managers, clinical leaders, and external partners, including the Welsh Government and use their professional judgement in communicating and advising across all levels of the Health Board. Responsibilities include interpreting national strategies, developing local policies, implementing financial procedures, proposing changes, and providing strategic financial advice across the Health Board. The post holder must ensure clear communication of financial guidance to Independent Members, Executive Directors, Clinicians, Senior Managers, and Budget Holders. The role requires assimilating complex information, making decisions without expert opinion, seeking peer advice, and having significant autonomy to manage workload variations. Representing the Health Board on regional and national committees, they must act independently to achieve objectives through strategic planning, financial management, and policy development. This role leads on four key areas: Service Intelligence & Costing Commissioning & Contracting Strategic Financial Planning & 10-year modelling Strategic Savings opportunities for Health Board
About us
We believe staff are our best asset and wewant you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.
As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.
You might be a nurse ordoctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - wehave a job for you.
There are also apprenticeships, work placementsand volunteering roles available.
We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.
Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show thatour commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.
If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery,with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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 in Trac.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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 in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
- CCAB professionally qualified accountant with extensive post qualification experience
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Expert knowledge across various financial disciplines including financial and accounting procedures, financial & other aspects of legislation and NHS finance policies.
- In-depth professional specialist knowledge of finance management, strategic & staff leadership roles.
- Understanding of developing best practice in the NHS within the UK nations.
Desirable
- Appropriate management qualification
- In-depth experience of commissioning and costing processes within the NHS
Experience
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
- Significant senior level experience in a complex NHS organisation.
- Significant experience of working with Senior Executives and Senior Clinical Leads.
- Significant experience in developing and business cases.
- Significant experience in the management and delivery of service change programmes.
- Significant experience of successfully managing large and complex revenue budgets.
- Experience of successfully leading and managing a large and diverse team, with a record of achievements at a senior level.
- Ability to influence at all levels and a highly strategic thinker
- Significant experience supported by training of recruiting and managing professional staff in line and virtual teams over a period of time including mentoring and continuous professional development.
- Experience of strategic level financial planning and management, including the development of annual, medium and long term strategies.
- Experience in delivering within challenging financial situations, including financial turnaround
- Highly developed analytical, interpretational and comparative skills
- Capable of dealing with highly complex and sensitive information to support rational decision-making.
- Ability to work autonomously and equally effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Demonstrable ability to work on multiple complex tasks simultaneously and produce high quality work within tight deadlines and within resource constraints.
- IT literate with practical computer application skills covering Microsoft products including advanced level of Excel spreadsheets.
- Demonstrable project management skills including work planning, organization, prioritization and risk management/ mitigation.
- Ability to think innovatively and develop new ways of working, continuously striving to improve systems and performance.
- Experience of delivering highly complex information to a diverse range of people in ways suited to the audience in one to one and group situations.This includes contexts where there is antagonism and significant resistance to the messages conveyed such as in discussions or consultations (e.g. with managers, clinicians, staff, patients) about contentious business changes, so as to address barriers to acceptance and change with the aim of influencing people to obtain buy-in.
- Experience of contacting and commissioning where negotiating with external bodies was required.
Desirable
- Experience in scrutinising and constructively challenging business cases
Aptitude and abilities
Essential
- High level of interpersonal, oral, presentation and written communication skills with the ability to persuade and influence others at all levels in the service, demonstrating political and diplomatic skills and awareness of organisational culture, the sensitive, confidential or controversial nature of material and the tactful and appropriate use of it
- Be able to communicate in hostile, antagonistic atmosphere.
- Ability to communicate with internal staff and external agencies to ensure compliance with performance targets, strategic objectives.
- Developed ability to listen and take input from others, amending stance appropriately
- Ability to analyse, interpret and make judgements in relation to substantial amounts of complex data so as to make reasoned, logical deductions and plans.
- Ability to plan workload considering conflicting priorities and deadlines.
- Knowledge of looking at the effective and efficient deployment of resources using a range of techniques.
- Highly developed persuasive, influencing and negotiating skills
- Ability to lead and manage the motivation, conduct, performance and activities of other people
- Ability to understand, interpret and implement guidance.
- Results oriented, highly self-motivated and dynamic self-starter with a pro-active, have a flexible approach to the needs of the service and have an adaptable approach.
- Positive attitude towards learning and development, demonstrated by a record of consistent personal, career and continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable
Other
Essential
- Shows empathy and compassion towards others - a natural disposition to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Sees and treats others as individuals (patient, families, colleagues) and treats people with dignity and respect.
- Shows resilience, adaptability and flexible approach to work as situations arise and positivity when times are tough.
- Shows respect for others' views and appreciate others' inputs and encourage colleagues to display our values.
- Motivated to use initiative to recognise problems and seek solutions whilst understanding the importance of empowering and enabling others (patients, families, colleagues).
- Friendly and helpful disposition, awareness of how our own and others' behaviours impact on people's experiences and the organisation's reputation.
- Willing to seek out learning, give and accept constructive feedback and committed to continuous improvement.
- Strategic Approach (clarity on objectives, clear on expectations)
- Personal Credibility (visibility, approachable, back bone, courage, resilience, confidence, role model, challenge bad behaviour, manage poor performance, act with honesty and integrity)
- Passion to Succeed (patient centred, positive attitude, take action, take pride, take responsibility, aspire for excellence)
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
- CCAB professionally qualified accountant with extensive post qualification experience
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Expert knowledge across various financial disciplines including financial and accounting procedures, financial & other aspects of legislation and NHS finance policies.
- In-depth professional specialist knowledge of finance management, strategic & staff leadership roles.
- Understanding of developing best practice in the NHS within the UK nations.
Desirable
- Appropriate management qualification
- In-depth experience of commissioning and costing processes within the NHS
Experience
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
- Significant senior level experience in a complex NHS organisation.
- Significant experience of working with Senior Executives and Senior Clinical Leads.
- Significant experience in developing and business cases.
- Significant experience in the management and delivery of service change programmes.
- Significant experience of successfully managing large and complex revenue budgets.
- Experience of successfully leading and managing a large and diverse team, with a record of achievements at a senior level.
- Ability to influence at all levels and a highly strategic thinker
- Significant experience supported by training of recruiting and managing professional staff in line and virtual teams over a period of time including mentoring and continuous professional development.
- Experience of strategic level financial planning and management, including the development of annual, medium and long term strategies.
- Experience in delivering within challenging financial situations, including financial turnaround
- Highly developed analytical, interpretational and comparative skills
- Capable of dealing with highly complex and sensitive information to support rational decision-making.
- Ability to work autonomously and equally effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Demonstrable ability to work on multiple complex tasks simultaneously and produce high quality work within tight deadlines and within resource constraints.
- IT literate with practical computer application skills covering Microsoft products including advanced level of Excel spreadsheets.
- Demonstrable project management skills including work planning, organization, prioritization and risk management/ mitigation.
- Ability to think innovatively and develop new ways of working, continuously striving to improve systems and performance.
- Experience of delivering highly complex information to a diverse range of people in ways suited to the audience in one to one and group situations.This includes contexts where there is antagonism and significant resistance to the messages conveyed such as in discussions or consultations (e.g. with managers, clinicians, staff, patients) about contentious business changes, so as to address barriers to acceptance and change with the aim of influencing people to obtain buy-in.
- Experience of contacting and commissioning where negotiating with external bodies was required.
Desirable
- Experience in scrutinising and constructively challenging business cases
Aptitude and abilities
Essential
- High level of interpersonal, oral, presentation and written communication skills with the ability to persuade and influence others at all levels in the service, demonstrating political and diplomatic skills and awareness of organisational culture, the sensitive, confidential or controversial nature of material and the tactful and appropriate use of it
- Be able to communicate in hostile, antagonistic atmosphere.
- Ability to communicate with internal staff and external agencies to ensure compliance with performance targets, strategic objectives.
- Developed ability to listen and take input from others, amending stance appropriately
- Ability to analyse, interpret and make judgements in relation to substantial amounts of complex data so as to make reasoned, logical deductions and plans.
- Ability to plan workload considering conflicting priorities and deadlines.
- Knowledge of looking at the effective and efficient deployment of resources using a range of techniques.
- Highly developed persuasive, influencing and negotiating skills
- Ability to lead and manage the motivation, conduct, performance and activities of other people
- Ability to understand, interpret and implement guidance.
- Results oriented, highly self-motivated and dynamic self-starter with a pro-active, have a flexible approach to the needs of the service and have an adaptable approach.
- Positive attitude towards learning and development, demonstrated by a record of consistent personal, career and continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable
Other
Essential
- Shows empathy and compassion towards others - a natural disposition to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Sees and treats others as individuals (patient, families, colleagues) and treats people with dignity and respect.
- Shows resilience, adaptability and flexible approach to work as situations arise and positivity when times are tough.
- Shows respect for others' views and appreciate others' inputs and encourage colleagues to display our values.
- Motivated to use initiative to recognise problems and seek solutions whilst understanding the importance of empowering and enabling others (patients, families, colleagues).
- Friendly and helpful disposition, awareness of how our own and others' behaviours impact on people's experiences and the organisation's reputation.
- Willing to seek out learning, give and accept constructive feedback and committed to continuous improvement.
- Strategic Approach (clarity on objectives, clear on expectations)
- Personal Credibility (visibility, approachable, back bone, courage, resilience, confidence, role model, challenge bad behaviour, manage poor performance, act with honesty and integrity)
- Passion to Succeed (patient centred, positive attitude, take action, take pride, take responsibility, aspire for excellence)
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
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Address
Swansea Bay University Health Board Headquarters
1 Talbot Gateway
Port Talbot
SA12 7BR
Employer's website
https://sbuhb.nhs.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)
