Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 9
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Will be required to participate in the Gold On Call rota)
- Job ref
- 214-CEN-6247141
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kings Mill Hospital
- Town
- Sutton in Ashfield
- Salary
- £99,891 - £114,949 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/05/2024
Employer heading
Deputy Chief Finance Officer
NHS AfC: Band 9
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
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Job overview
We are looking for an exceptional leader to join our Finance Team. Reporting directly to the Chief Finance Officer, you'll be pivotal in building and developing the Finance Team and implementing highly effective systems and practices.
At Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust we are committed to supporting our people to be the best they can be. This role is an opportunity to join our senior leadership team and to make a significant contribution to how we function as an organisation.
To succeed you will have the ability to provide strategic leadership and to foster a culture of compassion, innovation & inclusion, that improves the services we provide, whilst supporting financial sustainability. Everyone at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has an impact on how we are able to use our resources, and your role will include leading your team, and encouraging collaboration, to support clinicians, service leads and managers across the hospital, enabling them to use resources wisely.
Relishing a challenge? As an expert communicator, you'll be comfortable to lead on the sharing of highly complex information in a way that empowers others and facilitates their contribution. You will be working with colleagues across Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the wider Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care system.
Please note there will be stakeholder panels held for this post on the 23rd May and interviews 24th May.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead on a range of strategic and operational planning activities across the Trust that will ensure timely production of well- structured, inclusive plans that incorporate local and national priorities and standards.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust providing acute and community healthcare services for 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. We are working closely with partners in health and social care to take collective responsibility for improving the health of the population we serve, managing resources and reducing health inequalities.
We put the patient at the centre of everything we do, and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our colleagues to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe we are truly a clinically led organisation. We are a team, and we are proud of all of our colleagues and volunteers.
We have much to be proud about, including being the HSJ Trust of the Year for 2020, as well as being the best Acute Trust in the Midlands for staff engagement over the past three years and scoring Good in our latest CQC inspection with the Care domain rated Outstanding and all 15 of our services rated Good for Safety. King’s Mill Hospital is rated Outstanding and Newark Hospital and Mansfield Community Hospital are rated Good.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Deputy Chief Financial Officer is responsible for the provision of quality financial management services, which covers the operation of the revenue and capital financial and budgetary control systems; all aspects of internal and external financial reporting; and the Financial Services section to ensure the provision of high-quality services, the production of the statutory Annual Accounts and management of internal and external audit programmes.
This is a critical senior leadership role and the post holder will deputise for the Chief Financial Officer across the full range of financial duties, including attendance at the Board of Director meetings. The post holder will work with internal stakeholders including Trust Board members and senior clinicians and managers across the Trust, as well as external stakeholders such as senior executives across the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System (ICS) and the NHS England (NHSE) regional and national teams.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB accounting qualification with at least five years post qualification experience
- Educated to degree level (or equivalent)
- Masters in a subject relevant to the role or equivalent level management / operational experience.
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current issues in the NHS and the changing nature of healthcare provision and system management
- Understanding of the corporate and statutory duties of NHS trusts.
- Comprehensive understanding of NHS finance, policies and procedures
- Good understanding of NHS structures and approaches to whole systems thinking/working.
- Recent experience in a senior finance NHS role or relevant large and complex organisation(s), at least 5 years post qualification.
- Expert understanding of the NHS finance regime
- Substantial financial management experience, of both capital and revenue budgets, preferably within the public sector, or equivalent service sector
- Significant experience in the management, leadership and professional development of staff across multiple financial disciplines and multiple stakeholders.
- Extensive experience of strategic and operational planning, including the financial business cycle, within an NHS provider organisation or a similarly complex public sector environment.
- Highly developed planning skills including the ability to process large volumes of highly complex information in the development of comprehensive strategic and operational plans
- Experience of managing complexity such as managing numerous work streams and projects whilst simultaneously delivering on performance targets to tight deadlines
- Creative, innovative and versatile, able to see the broader picture
- Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- Experience of understanding and interpreting relevant national policy in a complex organisation.
Communication
Essential criteria
- Ability to build productive working relationships with a wide range of colleagues at all levels within and outside the Trust.
- Confident communicator and capable of representing the Trust with external stakeholders
- Ability to influence and motivate staff at all levels (including Board level) through the use of integrity, influence and credibility
Personal values
Essential criteria
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s values
- Must be able to demonstrate a strength in leadership to ensure those within the service also demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s values and standards
Contractual requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to work the hours required, to ensure satisfactory performance of duties.
If you would like this information in an alternative format or in a different language please contact us on 01623 622515 ext 3271.
Please note that we no longer accept handwritten/paper applications and that the email address given on your application will be used for all correspondence regarding this post.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Priority for vacancies at the Trust will be given to existing employees of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust whose roles are currently at risk of redundancy due to organisational change.
Only applications received on or before the closing date will be considered for short listing. This is to ensure that the Trust meets its commitment to Equality of Opportunity.
In submitting an application, you authorise Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any current and previous NHS Service details and you agree to the Trust obtaining and transferring personal date held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be shared using the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and third party systems via an automated process and will only be used for the purposes of maintaining your employment record.
Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The Trust will pay for the check initially and the money will then be invoiced to you once you've commenced employment. The current price of a check is £40 plus VAT for an enhanced and £23 plus VAT for a standard check. If you are asked to complete a DBS check and have a previous identity that you do not wish to be disclosed to your employer and/or on your DBS certificate, you should call or email the dedicated sensitive applications team before submitting your application. The team is experienced in dealing with sensitive cases and will advise you of the process and what you need to do.
Proposed for us: Covid-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, family, colleagues and our patients/service users from the Covid-19 virus. Whilst Covid-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this present time unless you work in a Care Home facility, we continue to encourage our current and potential colleagues to get vaccinated. There is helpful advice and information about the Covid-19 vaccination and how to access it at: https://nottsccg.nhs.uk/covid-19/covid-19-vaccinations/
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Richard Mills
- Job title
- Chief Finance Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01623 622515
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