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- 27/08/2025 23:59
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Senior Lead, Finance and Planning Business Partnering
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
The Secondary Care, Primary Care, Community Services, Vaccines and Screening (SPCVS) Finance and Planning Business Partnering Team in the NHS England Finance and Planning Directorate is now recruiting for two senior finance leads
This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the heart of work to support the NHS. We:
· Decide how to distribute the funding to the different NHS services and parts of England;
· Support innovative programmes that improve the care and experience of NHS patients or people using NHS services;
· Set out the financial and performance priorities the NHS should be delivering each year;
· Report how much the NHS has spent on providing services each year;
· Explore how the NHS can make the best use of its money;
· Look at how spend on building or equipment can improve the care and experience of people using NHS services.
· Consider how nationally we use these resources to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce inequality, improve health and support the NHS.
As a senior finance lead you will be a key finance business partner contact with two or three directorates that the SCPVS team support. You will help programmes design and implement affordable and value for money policy initiatives, taking forward the vision of the 10 year health plan. And you will help programmes manage their in-year budgets to plan by, with colleagues in your team, leading on monthly reporting and budget setting for the directorates you support.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
The team offers high profile, fast-paced projects. This requires adaptability, rigor and innovation and provides exciting development opportunities for those developing their careers in the NHS, health or the public sector.
Below are the types of skills and experience that we are looking for.
Even if you feel you only meet some of the criteria, we encourage you to apply.
· Ability to support policy colleagues in assessing the value for money and affordability of new policy proposals
· An understanding of allocations and financial flows in the NHS and how to establish funding and payment approaches for new delivery areas given these
· Experience of leading a team producing internal financial reporting, supporting forecasting and agreeing budgets
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Please see attached job description for further information about the responsibilities of this role. You can find further details about the role, a letter from the Deputy CFOs and advice on completing your application in the Document to download section.
Interested in applying and want to find out more about our team and the work we do?
Please email Sam Ward [email protected] from 18 August, or John McLoughlin [email protected] if before then.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Manyleb y person
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Fully qualified CCAB or CIMA accountant
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Advanced knowledge of finance Partnering techniques and best practice and how to implement within a partnering team.
- Advanced knowledge of financial performance management and value for money at a strategic level
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Leading at diverse levels to achieve the timely and accurate completion of specific financial objectives including annual budgets and monthly forecasting and reporting.
- A good understanding and experience of applying financial flows, allocations, contracts and pricing and financial incentives in the NHS.
Values
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Commitment to equality of opportunity, focussed on removing barriers to full participation and values diversity and difference.
- Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Sam Ward
- Teitl y swydd
- Senior Finance Lead
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
Rhestr swyddi gyda NHS England yn Gwasanaethau Gweinyddol neu bob sector