Head of Finance | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £70,417 - £81,138 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
| Location: | Mansfield, NG18 4RG |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6266689/186-194-24-CS-A |
Summary
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a fully qualified and experienced finance professional to undertake the role of Head of Finance, leading a Care Group or Corporate management Accounts team.
You will be forward thinking and looking to add value to the clinical services you will support. Responsible for the provision of a business orientated management accounts service and working closely with the operational teams, you will support the objectives of the Trust including ensuring value for money, establishing financial planning, monthly reporting, forecasting, benchmarking and efficiency delivery.
To ensure comprehensive financial and business advice and information is provided to budget holders and managers within the Care Group or Corporate Group. Advise the Care Group Directors or Executive Directors in the strategic financial direction of the service ensuring that financial decisions made by the relevant directorates do not compromise the Trust in achieving statutory financial duties. To provide financial input and support to contract negotiations and their performance management. To advise and inform the Deputy Director of Finance and Procurement of the current and prospective financial position of the Trust and corporate areas. To manage the Care Group/Corporate finance team.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
To ensure the preparation of accurate and timely financial reports for Care Group/Corporate Group. To produce monthly summary data on actuals/forecast with appropriate narrative for inclusion in the Trust Board reports. To review, interpret and present accounts and reports, ensuring that work meets best practice standards and is used appropriately to support proposals and recommendations for decision-making.
Provide guidance and support to budget holders to enable effective budgetary control. Identify and discuss with managers and clinicians areas where savings and efficiencies can be made to enable more effective use of the Trusts resources. Analyse detailed and complex financial statements and forecasts and create reports and presentations that make them readily understandable to non-financial managers.
Manage the financial plan setting and cost improvement identification process within the Care Group/Corporate areas in accordance with Executive Leadership Team agreed timetables. To be solely responsible for agreeing virements to enable the production of a balanced budget.
Work alongside the Deputy Director of Finance in the production of the Trusts annual financial plans, by providing summaries of relevant financial information.
Responsible for the Care Group/Corporate area financial forecast.
Indirectly contribute to the completion of annual accounts.
Staff and Leadership
Direct, lead and motivate the Care Group/Corporate finance team. Recruit and train new members of staff where appropriate including team induction. Appraise directly line managed staff through the PAD process to identify their training and development needs, and performance manage the team in order to maximise their potential and the contribution they make to the organisation. To oversee sickness and absence management of the finance team.
Responsible for ensuring all budget holders in the designated directorates fully understand the financial information presented to them, identifying and implementing any training needs as necessary.
Contribute to development and delivery of Trust wide training to non-financial staff as required
Demonstrate continuing professional development, through development of knowledge, skills and keeping up to date with professional practice.
Work with external Stakeholders
Represent the Trust providing support to develop system plans with colleagues across the ICS.
Business Partnering
Support the relevant managers across Care Group/Corporate to fulfil their statutory duties including the proprietary responsibility and stewardship of public funds. Support the Trust in achieving its planned financial outturn.
Contribute to current departmental issues which may change over time
Ability to present complex financial reports to groups of senior managers and Executive Directors
Service & Policy Development
Lead on ensuring the development of the Trust costing strategy incorporating the NHS England costing roadmap and ensuring our patient level costing system is adequate to provide requirements of the roadmap
Manage the production of costing information in the Trust including the implementation and development of costing systems that will support the production of statutory reference costs and specialty cost returns, and service line reporting.
Utilise financial expertise and in depth specialist knowledge of business, legislative and NHS environment to assist General Managers in developing proposals and production of Care Group/Corporate plans in line with the Trust Strategy.
Direct the implementation and monitoring of compliance with Trust financial policy within Care Group/Corporate areas, so ensuring that best practice is disseminated and Directorate policy is consistent with Trust strategy. To interpret the impact of Organisational Policy as it affects individual Care Units/Corporate areas and prepare them for such impact. Ensure as far as possible budget holders adhere to Trust financial policy.
Efficiency Programme
Finance lead supporting the overall Trust efficiency programme. Assistance across the organization with development and monitoring of cost improvement plans for services, providing financial support and challenges where appropriate.
Training
Lead on finance staff development needs and ensure all finance staff receive mandatory training in a timely manner. Lead on the Finance training offer working with Learning & Development.
Finance Skills Development for the Trust, contributing to decisions on appropriate courses set by FSD, and ensure information on courses is made available to relevant staff.
General
Authorised signatory in line with Scheme of delegation.
Responsible for ensuring Health and Safety policies are implemented and adhered to within Care Group/Corporate finance team.
This advert closes on Thursday 9 May 2024
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