Job summary
- Main area
- Finance - Commissioning
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AC139-0625
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Unit 1 The Willowford
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Finance Business Partner Accountant, NWJCC
Band 8a
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
Join Our Team at NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee
Position: Finance Business Partner Accountant, NWJCC
Following the establishment of the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) on 1st April 2024 and a recent organisational restructure, we are seeking a Finance Business Partner Accountant, NWJCC to support our journey as a newly formed organisation.
The NWJCC is a joint committee of the seven health boards in Wales, with a Chair and Lay Members. We support collaborative commissioning across Wales, with around 120 staff based in Mold and Nantgarw/Treforest.
Our mission to be The Centre of Excellence for Collaborative Commissioning, improving health and care outcomes across Wales. We commission around 220 services, from NHS 111 and ambulance services to specialised rare disease services, and mental health, operating a £1.14bn budget.
In this role, you will join a supportive, inclusive team, working with NHS Wales, Welsh Government, and UK provider organisations. We are seeking individuals who reflect our values of respect, trust, collaboration, and excellence—those who put patients and quality at the centre of everything they do.
If you're passionate about improving lives and want to be part of a forward-thinking, ambitious team, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the management and performance of comprehensive financial reporting systems and provide appropriate professional financial advice in respect of All Wales Health Boards/Trusts, and to Specialised Planners within NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC). They will produce relevant, timely reports to key stakeholder including, Welsh Assembly Government and the Welsh Health Boards/Trusts.
The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, sharing corporate goals and corporate responsibility for decision making.
Welsh language Skills need to be learnt when appointed to the post.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Knowledge/Training /Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB Approved professional accountancy qualification.
- Highly developed specialist knowledge underpinned by theory and experience across a number of areas of responsibility that has been acquired over a significant period of time.
- In depth professional knowledge of staff management, performance management and financial management, and will have: • CCAB approved professional accountancy qualification. • Experience in a Senior NHS Financial Management or with experience within a similar organisation. • Undertake CPD as per requirements of professional bodies. • Experience of working effectively to support a corporate body through a Board and formal committee structures. • Specialist knowledge and expertise across a broad range of specialist areas including: i. NHS Financial Reporting Process (Monthly Monitoring returns and Annual Accounts). ii. Strategic Financial Planning. iii. Planning and Commissioning. iv. Budgeting and Service Costing. v. Board Level reporting. vi. Specialised Services. vii. Information Management. viii. Payment by Results PbR.
- Gwybodaeth drylwyr a manwl am bolisïau a gweithdrefnau ariannol a chyfrifyddu.
- Extensive specialist expert theoretical knowledge of: • Strategic Financial Planning. • Investment Appraisal Techniques. • Commissioning Healthcare Service.
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Performance Management Frameworks.
- Knowledge of Mental Health Services.
- Knowledge of Kidney Services.
- Knowledge of other specialist services e.g. Bone Marrow Transportation (BMT), and Transplantation.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification experience of working in a Senior Management role within a NHS Finance environment
- Advanced theoretical and practical experience and expertise of: • Financial Reporting Process (Monthly Monitoring returns and Annual Accounts) • Strategic Financial Planning. • Commissioning Healthcare Services • Budget Setting and Monitoring. • Board Level reporting.
- Providing leadership in the management and supervision of staff and building team morale.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and often contentious information where agreement and co-operation is required.
- Able to communicate highly complex information to large groups of often senior non-finance managers in a clear and persuasive manner.
- Evidence of ability to analyse highly complex problems and make judgements and recommendations on a range of options using both financial and non-financial issues.
- Able to formulate long term, strategic plans for the Health Boards/Trusts which involve uncertainty and impact across the organisation.
- Up to date IT skills, particularly in use of spreadsheets and word processing.
- Able to create reports within a financial management and Clinical Activity Systems.
- Able to interpret a range of information sources and produce strategic advice based on analysis of highly complex data.
- Evidence of sound decision making skills on both financial and non-financial issues.
- Evidence of planning workload in order to achieve internal and external corporate deadlines and targets.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Ensuring staff achieve or reach their potential.
- Able to work with a small team.
- Able to build and develop working relationships.
- Able to work on their own initiative.
- Able to concentrate for prolonged length of time with frequent interruptions.
- Able to adapt and continue to learn new skills and knowledge.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Highly self-motivated.
- Display exemplary personal and professional standards of behaviour and integrity at all times.
- Application of the highest standards of honesty and integrity at all times.
- Demonstrate a professional approach to all situations.
- Able to earn respect and deal with a diverse range of stakeholders.
Other
Essential criteria
- Must be prepared to travel frequently throughout Wales in a timely manner and further afield as necessary.
- Able to work hours flexibly to meet demands of the service.
- Able to deal with a stressful and demanding workload.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Welsh language skills need to be learnt when appointed to the post
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sandra Tallon
- Job title
- Assitant Director of Finance (Interim)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443443443
- Additional information
Should you wish to make informal enquiries, please contact via email Sandra Tallon via email ([email protected]) from Monday to Friday between 09:30 – 16:30.
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