Job vacancy: Finance Business Partner - Projects (fixed term six months), Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, Torquay

Job summary

Main area: Finance
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract: 6 months (Fixed Term)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 388-8152215-CORP

Employer: Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Regents House
Town: Torquay
Salary: £66,582 - £77,368 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/07/2026 23:59
Interview date: 03/08/2026

Finance Business Partner - Projects (fixed term six months)

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Promote a modern and collaborative approach to engaging clinicians in financial management. Ensuring the Associate Medical Director and the Associate Nursing Director are actively part of strategic business planning and long-term financial modelling for a sustainable service.
Work collaboratively with clinicians and management teams using benchmarking and Service Level Reporting (SLR) to support the development of effective and efficient clinical pathways and significant service and care model changes. Demonstrating efficiency for key national reporting requirements

Provide expert advice on highly complex, sensitive and often contentious information to the Care Group on any change in local or external NHS policy or external reporting requirements, legislative changes or opportunities and risks that may have an impact on the directorate's financial performance. For example; development of strategic transformational schemes across NHS footprints.

Research and network effectively to ensure the post holder's knowledge and awareness of the impact of local and external policy changes and opportunities and risks is maximized.

Support training programmes across all areas of financial and business activities tailored to the requirements of Care Group colleagues. With expert advice on the financial elements of Business Cases and service developments.

Analytical and judgement

Maximise income receivable to the directorate by:

Providing expert advice on any remaining national and local tariff variable contracts within the Care Group.

Ensure Service Level Agreements are in place for all non-NHS Clinical and Non-Clinical Income and prices are regularly reviewed and updated.

Minimise income lost or poor benchmarking/costing data through poor data capture, and support the Care Group with gaps in data analysis to be reported to the Information and Performance Teams, either for future central recording, or local measurement of potential CQUINS, penalties etc.

Be the key link between Operational Management and the Independent Sector and/or other large non-pay contracts, utilising procurement advice and key relationships with outside agencies such as Care Homes.

Ensure an evidence-based and risk assessed approach to all decisions within the Care Group, ensuring financial risk is considered alongside clinical risk to the Trust.

Lead the development of business cases the Care Group, ensuring compliance with the system investment policy. Suggest and recommend changes for maintaining and developing business case documentation and investment and disinvestment decisions. Ensuring key performance indicators are agreed at the time of seeking approval and monitored after implementation for dis-investment decision if appropriate. Ensuring that all Capital Business Cases are subject to oversight by the Assistant Director of Financial Services.

Ensure business cases have an objective method of measuring benefits/KPI's and lead a systematic approach to reporting and supporting delivery expected benefits. Each investment must report on a post implementation against these agreed KPI's.

Ensure any investment decisions at any level are included in the Care Group forecast for the year and the LTFM systems. Ensure teams keep a log and audit trail of all investment and disinvestment proposals, including any cost avoidance to be monitored.

Support the Care Group to produce the post project evaluation of each of the business cases to Executive or Finance Committee to demonstrate the delivery of the expected benefits. This to be done in line with the time scales agreed in the business case usually 12-24 months after completion.

Partner the Care Group Triumvirate Managers in planning, reporting and delivering of the Cost Improvement Programme (CIP) and efficiency delivery, ensuring all Business Support staff are aware of the systems and process being used for CIP recording and reporting for accurate data to be transferred to the PMO (Programme Management Office).

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Qualified Accountant
NHS Experience at a Senior Level

You will be joining the organisation at an exciting time. As the first fully integrated care organisation in England, we are working to improve the way we deliver safe, high-quality health and social care. We have a positive and vibrant working atmosphere, we are proud of our investment in our staff both in terms of developing potential career skills and valuing people.

If you provide support to a family member or friend with health or care needs, we aim to be a Carer-friendly employer. We have a ‘Staff Carers’ policy which includes flexible working where possible and a Carer’s Passport scheme that links you into support and discounts.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we encourage you to apply promptly.
Please read the job description carefully and tailor your application to reflect the requirements of the role.
Applicants who identify in their application form they are a part of the Armed Forces community will be guaranteed an interview, provided they meet the minimum essential criteria outlined in the job description and person specification for the role. Step into Health guidance can be found on our NHS Employers website.
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The Trust is committed to preventing discrimination, valuing diversity and achieving equality of opportunity. No person (staff, patient or public) will receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of the nine protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. If you require support you can obtain this from our Equality Business Forum which has representatives from all protected groups.