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Main area
Finance
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
  • Home or remote working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
256-SH-6312114
Employer
NHS Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Dukes Court
Town
Woking
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 Per annum, pro rata plus 5% high cost allowance
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/09/2024 23:59

Employer heading

NHS Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board logo

Full Time - Finance Manager Planning & Analysis - Band 7

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

NHS Surrey Heartlands works in partnership with local health and care organisations – along with staff, patients, their carers, families, and the public - to support people to live healthier lives. We have an ambitious vision for transformation and continuous improvement of health and care across our footprint, supporting the overall objectives of our wider integrated care system; to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area.

To deliver our objectives we need a team of talented, collaborative professionals who share the same vision and are passionate about what they do.

 

Main duties of the job

•    Support the annual system financial planning process in particular the consolidation of partner organisation plans by critical appraisal of the partner plans for consistency of approach and the application of agreed system assumptions as well as those prescribed in NHSE guidance.
•    Develop assumptions for long term financial planning using NHS resources to ensure models are developed in line with best practice.
•    Support the in-year monitoring of performance versus triangulated plans through variance analysis.
•    Report on system efficiency performance and link efficiency reported to transformational programmes where appropriate.
•    Use NHSE resources (model hospital, regional benchmarking) to analyse system cost and performance and identify where SHICs is performing better or worse compared to peer group and explain why.
•    As a member of the System team, assist in the decision making process for the team as a whole, with regard to priorities, governance issues, implementation of new processes and procedures.
•    Assist the Director of Systems Finance and other members of the System team in the design, development and maintenance of processes and systems required to support the reporting process, ensuring the integrity of data is maintained at all times.
•    Interpret large amounts of, often new and complex, information of a financial and a non-financial nature.

 

 

 

Working for our organisation

Surrey Heartlands is a partnership of organisations working together - with staff, patients, their carers, families, and the public - to support people to live healthier lives. Surrey Heartlands developed into an Integrated Care Board (ICB) since July 2022, working through 4 Integrated, dynamic, and sustainable place-based partnerships (our Places), each working together to deliver a shared vision across Surrey.

The 4 Place partnerships are known as:

North West Surrey Alliance

Guildford and Waverley Alliance

Surrey Downs Health and Care

East Surrey Place

We have an ambitious vision for transformation and continuous improvement of health and care across our footprint and to deliver our objectives we need a team of capable, collaborative professionals who share the same vision. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes.

We welcome all applications, especially those from underrepresented communities, including people with a disability, and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description and the person specification documents attached within this job advert. 

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
  • Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent
  • Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • Demonstrated experience of co- ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
  • Experience of managing risks and reporting
  • Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level
  • Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
  • Understanding of the public sector
  • Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
  • Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project

Analytical

Essential criteria
  • Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
  • Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
  • Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
  • Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
  • Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g., monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement

Communication & Relationship Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
  • Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders

Planning Skills

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long- term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
  • Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures

Physical Skills

Essential criteria
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.

Equality and Diversity

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships

Autonomy

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales

Other

Essential criteria
  • An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
  • Used to working in a busy environment
  • Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
  • Commitment to continuing professional development
  • Professional calm and efficient manner
  • Effective organiser
  • Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals
  • Experience of managing a team without direct line management
  • Ability to demonstrate the NHS and ICS values and behaviours in all aspects of work and interactions with colleagues, stakeholders, patients and service users

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dan Brown
Job title
CFO
Email address
[email protected]
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