About this role
Job summary
The post holder will be a key senior finance lead within University Hospitals Tees' Managing Director portfolio, with specific responsibility for supporting the long-term financial sustainability of the Trust and the development and delivery of major transformation programmes, alongside PFI (including Strategic Outline Case) and commercial workstreams.
The post-holder will provide strategic and operational financial leadership to support UHT to deliver sustainable and balanced financial plans, productivity improvements, cost improvement programmes (CIPs), service transformation and value-based decision-making, working closely with executive and clinical leaders. This is a cross site role across both North Tees and South Tees sites.
Main duties of the job
Duties include;
To take a lead role in providing comprehensive financial leadership and support to the financial sustainability agenda across UHT, including medium and long-term financial planning, recovery planning and delivery of agreed financial trajectories.
To provide financial leadership to transformation programmes and service reconfiguration projects, ensuring robust financial appraisal, affordability, phasing of benefits and ongoing delivery assurance.
To work autonomously under the direction of the Director of Assurance & Deputy Managing Director, providing expert advice that supports strategic decision-making and organisational change.
To ensure financial sustainability considerations are embedded within PFI, commercial, contract management and transformation decisions.
To support and provide challenge to UHT senior leaders to identify, develop and deliver productivity, efficiency and value-for-money opportunities.
To ensure strong financial governance, control and assurance arrangements are maintained across all assigned sustainability and transformation workstreams.
To take a lead role in providing comprehensive financial support to the financial sustainability agenda across UHT. This will include directives from the Director of Assurance & Managing Director and will require the post holder to demonstrate autonomy.
About us
At University Hospitals Tees our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.
Job description Job responsibilities
Duties include;
To take a lead role in providing comprehensive financial leadership and support to the financial sustainability agenda across UHT, including medium and longterm financial planning, recovery planning and delivery of agreed financial trajectories.
To provide financial leadership to transformation programmes and service reconfiguration projects, ensuring robust financial appraisal, affordability, phasing of benefits and ongoing delivery assurance.
To work autonomously under the direction of the Director of Assurance & Deputy Managing Director, providing expert advice that supports strategic decisionmaking and organisational change.
To ensure financial sustainability considerations are embedded within PFI, commercial, contract management and transformation decisions.
To support and provide challenge to UHT senior leaders to identify, develop and deliver productivity, efficiency and valueformoney opportunities.
To ensure strong financial governance, control and assurance arrangements are maintained across all assigned sustainability and transformation workstreams.
To take a lead role in providing comprehensive financial support to the financial sustainability agenda across UHT. This will include directives from the Director of Assurance & Managing Director and will require the post holder to demonstrate autonomy.
Business as usual contract management arrangements, including (but not limited to) service provision by PFIco and the proper operation of the contractual payment mechanism and financial model.
The pricing, agreement and financial monitoring of both works and service variations under the PFI contract as they arise.
The process of preparation for the efficient handback of JCUH from the private sector PFI partner and its sub-contractors to the Trust, at the end of the PFI contract operational period in 2033 (the handback period).
To support and advise on relevant strategic and operational decision-making through evidence gathering and other insights and analysis, to drive better service provision and performance management of the private sector partner.
To ensure financial governance and control is maintained within the PFI contractual and administrative management arrangements.
To provide similar commercial financial input into any other significant contracts/projects as allocated.
To provide robust financial data as part of performance management and challenge, business case development and other management and development proposals.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
qualified with relevant finance experienceCCAB qualified accountant with experience in a complex finance department at a managerial level or NHS financial experience at Senior Manager level. Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
Desirable
Experience within the NHS
Experience Essential
Experience of managing the finances for a highly complex service within the NHS or comparable. Experience of understanding cost drivers and the impact of fluctuating demand on services, such as Emergency activity Experience of system implementation and change management Evidence of leadership, direction and supervision skills and ability to motivate and manage staff. Experience of dealing with highly complex and/or sensitive information and unpredictable situations.
Desirable
Experience in the NHS at a managerial level
Skills, aptitude & knowledgement Essential
Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of both national, regional and local financial reporting processes and systems, both manual and computerised. Good team player able to contribute effectively to the achievement of shared objectives Ability to work without supervision on a regular basis, interpreting financial guidance, accounting policies and standards. Detailed knowledge and understanding of all aspects of NHS financial regimes and reporting requirements. Ability to interpret accounting policies and procedures and application to Trust and to Knowledge of HR policies and procedures relating to employee management AF/I/P communicate these to staff at all levels.
Desirable
Knowledge of HR policies and procedures relating to employee management
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Registration
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Employer details Employer name North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Address University Hospital of North Tees
Hardwick Road
Stockton-on-Tees
TS19 8PE
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.nth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)