Transformation Consultant (Finance) | NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 pa pr |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Sale, M33 7FT |
| Company: | Midlands and Lancashire CSU |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6236677/877-CSU-6140591-A |
Summary
We are looking to recruit a Transformation Consultant specialising in Finance, to work closely with colleagues to deliver projects and programmes within the TU portfolio.
The post-holder must be adaptable, flexible and a good communicator. Given the nature and role, there may be a requirement to react quickly to external influences and events and support other members of theTransformation Unitin general programme tasks as directed byDelivery Leadswithin the team.
The potholder will be required to:
• Provide detailed financial information, modelling and analysis inputs to support delivery of projects and Business cases.
• Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with key senior level stakeholders, both internal and external.
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is part of the NHS family, both ‘of’ and ‘for’ the NHS and is pivotal in supporting major improvements in health and wellbeing for organisations across our partner Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and their populations.
The Transformation Unit (TU) is hosted by the MLCSU and operates as an NHS Internal Consultancy providing a range of services tailored to the needs of each client in a more cost-effective way than other commercial consultancies.
The TU works with clients to ensure that change is delivered within a strategic context and drive forward new thinking in how public services can be delivered differently, to be more effective, more efficient and achieve better outcomes for patients and service users.
The TU is innovative, with a track record of successfully delivering complex transformation programmes and major service reconfiguration. The post holder will support the TU to ensure that programmes and projects within its portfolio are planned and managed effectively.
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Key Responsibilities
Planning and organising
• Undertake all forms of required work without direction, including making decisions and delivering required outcomes to deadlines.
• Develop project plans for complex, multi-stranded projects and facilitate collaborative working between the TU, other CSU teams and client teams / stakeholders.
• Lead and coordinate the development of long-term strategies and plans, including financial plans, for clients, including for challenging and complex scenarios.
• Identify and address interdependencies across projects and functions.
• Act as an expert to colleagues around financial aspects of complex project plans, advising on how best to plan and organise resources and identifying key risks, issues and mitigations.
• Be responsible for self-organisation/time management.
• Adjust plans as required to support the delivery of projects and initiatives on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner.
Communications and relationship skills
• Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with key senior level stakeholders, both internal and external. Foster relationships with established contacts and team members and proactively manage these relationships.
• Act as an ambassador for the Unit, communicating professionally in all contacts, including with senior stakeholders and clinicians, both face to face and via email.
• Provide finance support to project and programme leads, ensuring adequate briefings and notes are provided as required.
• Provide formal verbal and written updates to key governance meetings as required.
• Document the approach to and outputs of the finance workstream for both a financial and non-financial audience. Communicate highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in both informal and formal settings.
• Represent the TU locally and regionally as required.
• Lead and facilitate workshops, meetings and events. Effectively manage challenging meetings and diffuse issues. Deliver presentations to senior and challenging audiences.
• Act as a role model to junior team members in terms of finance and communications skills.
• Work collaboratively as part of a team whilst managing own workload.
• Understand and manage the implications of change on stakeholders, operating with a high degree of political awareness.
• Assist with freedom of information requests.
Research, Development and Audit
• Take responsibility for own learning and development, including identifying areas of learning that add to the knowledge base of the wider team.
• Undertake research to support projects and programmes.
• Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information.
• Manage the collection, analysis, modelling and presentation of complex key data to provide evidence to support projects and programmes.
• Identify finance risks and issues and maintain risk registers and issue logs.
Responsibilities for Human Resources
• Take responsibility for a day-to-day range of staff management matters, including responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of staff, recruitment and where necessary processes such as grievance and disciplinary matters.
• Develop junior members of the TU team working on projects and provide project performance feedback.
• Work in conjunction with line managers and other job managers to assess and manage confidential information about individuals’ performance and capability development.
• Support other members of the team.
• Promote an innovative, adaptable and collaborative culture within the team.
Responsibility for Patient Care
• Support projects and programmes that will improve patient care and outcomes.
Responsibility for Policy/ Service Development
• Identify areas for improvement in project management methodologies, tools, templates and documentation used by the team.
• Develop tools, methodologies, documentation and approaches to specific client challenges which will be used by the wider TU team when working on those challenges. Act as the TU lead for financial methodologies and tools.
• Support the TU in growing and enhancing the range of services available to customers of the Unit.
Analytical and Judgement skills
• Define data requirements, design data collection methods and determine appropriate outputs.
• Assess the robustness of data and ensure data analysis for projects and programmes is sufficient and will stand up scrutiny.
• Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues and risks and support decision making. Present data in a variety of formats.
• Collate as required, qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases.
• Make appropriate judgements on highly complex data where there may be conflicting outcomes.
• Continuously track risks and issues relating to data. Quickly identify actual or potential failures to meet project requirements, and act accordingly to resolve issues and to inform team members as appropriate.
• Comply with policy on managing information.
• Adhere to all relevant information governance requirements and promote understanding of these requirements across the Team.
Responsibilities for physical and financial resources
• Adhere to and promote understanding of Midlands and Lancashire CSU financial policies and procedures including Standing Financial Instructions, Standing Orders and Scheme of Delegation.
• Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency.
• Develop and monitor budgets for client projects.
• Working with clients, undertake complex analysis to develop financial plans.
• Provide advice around complex financial issues to clients including ICBs and NHS Trusts
Responsibility for Information Resources
• Leads the development of financial systems and process as part of complex project work.
• Responsible for ensuring financial systems and processes designed for clients meet the required specifications and all other requirements e.g. accounting standards, information governance requirements etc.
Equality and Diversity
• Act as a Champion of equality in the provision of advice and support, ensuring that managers and colleagues comply with relevant legislation.
• Promote equality and diversity as part of the culture of the organisation.
Health & Safety
• Work in accordance with all the TU policies and procedures.
• Attend regular mandatory update training, including training on risk management policy and procedure.
• Identify and appropriately assess, and if necessary, escalate, risks that exist within the Unit or that arise during the delivery of the service.
• Provide incident reports and supporting documentation for any unexpected event or incident involved in.
Freedom to Act
• The post holder is guided by precedent; works within the constraints of terms and conditions of service, policies and procedures. Priorities are set but post holder manages own workload and works independently.
• Identify and interpret appropriate standards e.g. accounting standards and ensures our work meets the requirements of such standards.
• Works with clients to ensure that they have a clear understanding of standards and requirements and that these are built into all work as appropriate.
Other
• Deal with staff performance and disciplinary issues if required on an occasional basis.
• Work in office conditions with occasional travel to client sites.
• Spend long periods of time working on complex tasks on VDUs.
This advert closes on Thursday 9 May 2024