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Head of Financial Management | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | Huyton, L36 3SD |
| Company: | St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6316294/409-S6316294 |
Summary
To be responsible for consolidating the overall financial management and performance of the Trust to meet organisational and departmental objectives. To ensure the Financial Management team provides expert strategic financial advice and information to managers and directors, ensuring efficiency, effectiveness, integrity and business focus of financial systems and processes. This will require participation in effective decision making that leads to the delivery of financial targets and statutory duties, as well as maintaining high quality financial management services that support the short- and long-term planning processes.
To ensure there is wider understanding of the financial implications of highly complex strategic and operational changes. This will require a critical understanding, investigation and advice, often in and with challenging and emotive issues.
To support the Assistant Director of Finance – Financial Management and the Deputy Director of Finance in ensuring that statutory obligations are met and delivering effective planning and monitoring of the Trust’s financial position.
Interview date: 13th June 2024
Please note that interviews will include a presentation.
· Lead the financial reporting of all services, ensuring an expert financial management service is provided by the Management Accounts team to Care Groups and corporate departments.
· Lead the monthly reporting process, ensuring that information produced is accurate and delivered within agreed timescales.
· Support contract negotiations and development of business cases.
· Support development of long-term financial plans for the organisation.
· Support service line reporting.
· Ensure a robust control environment.
· Improve the skills and knowledge base of the organisation in finance related matters.
· Provide effective leadership to the Financial Management team, including staff development and process improvement.
· Support the development and submission of the Trust's financial plans and any other NHSE/ICS queries.
More detail can be found in the Job Description & Person Specification
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.
From 1stJuly we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.
The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.
Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:
• CARE that is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
• SAFETY that is of the highest standards
• COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
• SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
• PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients
Our achievements include:
• Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our staff benefits. Accessible version available upon request.
· Lead the financial reporting of all services, ensuring an expert financial management service is provided by the Management Accounts team to Care Groups and corporate departments.
· Lead the monthly reporting process, ensuring that information produced is accurate and delivered within agreed timescales.
· Support contract negotiations and development of business cases.
· Support development of long-term financial plans for the organisation.
· Support service line reporting.
· Ensure a robust control environment.
· Improve the skills and knowledge base of the organisation in finance related matters.
· Provide effective leadership to the Financial Management team, including staff development and process improvement.
· Support the development and submission of the Trust's financial plans and any other NHSE/ICS queries.
This advert closes on Monday 3 Jun 2024
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