Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 028-AC063-0325
- Employer
- Public Health Wales NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 2nd Floor, Unit 1
- Town
- Pencoed
- Salary
- 拢75,405 - 拢86,885 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Director - Financial Planning Delivery Directorate
Band 8c
Welcome to the NHS Wales Executive, a new national support function, operational from 1 April 2023
Our key purpose is to鈥
Drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.
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Our values
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English. To support our all Wales service, we particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Job overview
The Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate (鈥渢he Directorate鈥) was established to provide professional support to Welsh Government to respond and deliver on the financial challenges facing NHS Wales. The Directorate operates across Wales and in support of all NHS Wales organisations as required. This includes:
Monitoring and managing financial risk in NHS Wales, responding at pace where organisations are demonstrating signs of financial concern.
Support the robust development and delivery of in-year and medium term financial and resource plans.
Driving forward the efficiency agenda for NHS Wales, working with NHS Wales organisations to ensure maximum return from efficiency opportunities.
Promote and embed best practice financial management and use of resources.
Developing a Centre of Excellence for Financial Information and Intelligence, reflecting costing, benchmarking, resource allocation, and utilisation, to assist in driving improvements on both technical and allocative efficiency across NHS Wales.
Lead research and identifying best practice in financial management and rapid adoption of proven practice and evidence in a consistent and comprehensive way across Wales. This includes best practice approaches, methodology, and deployment.
The Directorate will enable this agenda and deliver these objectives through building effective relationships within and across NHS Wales, and Welsh Government.
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Main duties of the job
The role will have significant freedom to act, and as part of the senior team will operate at a strategic level with stakeholders spanning NHS Wales organisations, Welsh Government policy leads, national and international stakeholders, national clinical leads, and other NHS Wales teams including other Directorates within the NHS Executive. The Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate is passionate about people and professional development, with an ambitious development programme for the overall team and all team members. This role is an ideal opportunity for someone who is looking to develop their skills and experiences across a broad and exciting national agenda.
Your responsibilities will include:
Lead the production, validation and improvement of Welsh costing data, including the governance of costing and benchmarking practitioners in delivering this agenda.
Develop the use of costing data which includes connection and modelling with other data as part of 鈥榖ig data鈥, to support the wider planning and efficiency objectives of the Directorate.听 This will include the integrity, quality assurance and maintenance of associated analysis products.
Strategically and technically develop the associated national guidance and standards, cognisant of future direction and aligned through input from stakeholders.
Foster and maintain a lead relationship with costing and benchmarking system providers, on behalf of NHS Wales.
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Working for our organisation
The NHS Executive works in partnership for and on behalf of Welsh Government, in and with the NHS in Wales and is hosted by Public Health Wales.听
Our key purpose is to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.
We do this by providing strong leadership and strategic direction 鈥 enabling, supporting, and directing NHS Wales to transform clinical services in line with national priorities and standards.听
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If you are a highly motivated, experienced, and qualified finance professional with a strong demonstrable background that includes costing, financial management, performance, intelligence, and delivery then we would be keen to hear from you and welcome your application.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB / CIMA Qualified & Member of Professional body.
- Educated to Postgraduate level or equivalent, Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Programme / Project Management qualification
- Evidence of personal research into a clinical, managerial, financial area
Experience and Specialist Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience, working at a senior level in a large complex organisation, Proven experience of developing and delivering financial management services successfully for a large organisation.
- Minimum of five years experience as a senior finance manager within the NHS
- Record of effective contribution to the development of business strategy, Experience of planning and implementing long-term development programmes.
- Experience of strategic thinking at a senior level, Ability to influence at all levels and a highly strategic thinker
- Proven track record of successfully introducing service improvement or successful management of significant organisational change in a complex environment, Participation in significant change management projects
- Significant experience of working with staff, their representatives and professional organisations, Demonstrable success in building, leading, motivating, managing and developing teams
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Turnaround & Intervention approaches and delivery, Demonstrates expertise in specific professional areas
- Good knowledge of NHS Wales finance regime, including a thorough understanding of organisations financial duties, responsibilities and governance requirements, Good understanding of the concepts of Value Based Healthcare
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse and appropriately present often highly complex information, Highly tuned analytical skills, including ability to identify key issues from a range of complex financial data, Able to interpret complex qualitative and quantitative information and provide advice to senior leaders
- Ability to communicate excellently both verbally and in writing in a manner which is clear, fluent and persuasive
- Self-motivated and committed to developing self and team members, Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload and that of the team to operate effectively, Ability to work independently to a specified remit, ensuring agreed deadlines and deliverables are met
- Able to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills, displaying credibility, influence and political acumen, Proven ability to achieve targets and objectives within a demanding and pressured environment against challenging deadlines.
- Standard keyboard skills
- Sound judgement, decision making, and organisational skills, Able to interpret legislation and guidance as appropriate to the role.
Desirable criteria
- Ability and confidence to constructively challenge and support senior NHS staff and their teams
- Ability and confidence to demonstrate leadership across NHS Wales on driving improvements in financial planning and financial management
Disposition
Essential criteria
- Appropriate attitudes with a high level of professional ethics and integrity, Enthusiastic, Committed, Proactive, and Innovative
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Must be mobile and able to travel locally and nationally, Emotionally Intelligent, Politically astute & high level of intuition, Work collaboratively & build relationships effectively, Resilience & reliability under pressure, Appetite for challenges, with a high level of personal integrity
Desirable criteria
- Ability to communicate in Welsh
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mrs Jessica Hammond
- Job title
- Business Support Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
for any questions about the role or to arrange an informal visit please contact:听 [email protected]
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