Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Finance Business Partner
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-NHP-6406788-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Leeds/London. Hybrid working
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Finance Business Partner - New Hospital Programme
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
About the role: As a Senior Finance Business Partner within NHP you will deliver a full range of finance business partnering support to teams across the Programme including Programme Delivery and cost management teams. This post is within the Finance Business Partner Team within NHP Finance Directorate. By establishing trusted relationships with key stakeholders, the Finance Business partner team delivers the insight needed to make high-quality decisions that drive value for money and improve patient care.
You will also deputise for the Head of Business Partnering as required, including at formal governance meetings.
About the Programme: The New Hospital Programme is committed to changing the way hospitals are built, incorporating repeatable design, modern construction methods, new clinical planning approaches, and innovations in sustainability and digital technology. You will be part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to achieving these ambitious goals.
Join us in this challenging and rewarding role where your expertise will contribute to the successful delivery of the New Hospital Programme, shaping the future of healthcare infrastructure.
Main duties of the job
Act as a senior finance business partner for hospital schemes providing comprehensive financial management support and advice to NHP project delivery leads, Trust leadership teams and NHP senior executives and. Part of doing this is getting to know the business from an operational perspective. This includes the preparation and monitoring of budgets in line with approved Business Plans, and supporting budget holders to make better decisions based on the financial information and the advice they receive for the ultimate benefit of the patients we serve.
Responsible for organisational financial planning and analysis, partnering with budget holders across the programme and delivering vital, timely information and analysis to the delivery of NHP’s strategic objectives by ensuring that NHP’s finances are managed appropriately in the short and long-term with robust controls in place to discharge responsibilities and ensure compliance with Managing Public Money and other relevant accounting and budgeting standards and guidance.
Ensure there is an effective financial control framework in place for hospital build projects, along with related systems and policies that allow financial planning and performance reporting to meet internal and regulatory requirements.
Lead activity to support NHP Project leads and Project teams in NHS Trusts in managing their delegated budgets and improve financial competence across NHP through learning activities and engagement.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Must hold a CCAB or CIMA professional accountancy qualification and have extensive relevant post-qualifying experience
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the NHS England/ NHS Improvement and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Experience of budgetary responsibilities, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Highly developed communication skills with the capability to analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information across a diverse range of subjects relevant to post portfolio.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
Values and behaviours
Essential criteria
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Gage
- Job title
- Business Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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