Associate Director – Strategic Finance
- Employer
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH)
- Location
- Great Ormond Street Hospital - London
- Salary
- £96,340 - £109,849 per annum inclusive
- Closing date
- 8 Sep 2024
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- Sector
- Charity and not for profit, Health and medical, Healthcare and pharmaceutical
- Salary band
- £90,000 - £100,000, £100,000 - £125,000
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Where will they be working
- From our office
Job Details
Grade - Band 8d
Hours - Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Site - Great Ormond Street Hospital
Interview date 20/09/2024
Job overview
An exciting career opportunity has arisen for an Associate Director of Strategic Finance to join our Finance Team at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
The purpose of this role is to provide financial leadership to support the Divisional & Corporate teams alongside the PMO and Transformation team in using all available informatics to deliver a sustainable financial plan for the next 3-5 years ensuring clinical quality and safety is maintained.
Main duties of the job
The main focus of the Associate Director of Strategic Finance are:
Business planning
To lead and support the long-term planning and oversight of the financial recovery and transformational change required to establish a stable and sustainable financial position for the Trust; and
To lead the financial and economic support for major projects (such as, for example, the Children's Cancer Centre)
This role will focus on utilising and understanding all available benchmarking data to drive conversations across the Trust to reset the underlying financial position. The role will provide expert knowledge and advice to the Trust and the wider system in relation to the benchmarked performance of the Trust. They will develop and maintain the narrative for the positioning of the Trust in these datasets to support improvements in financial performance and the standing of the Trust.
The post holder will lead on the planning and oversight of the financial aspects of the Trust’s business planning and the associated recovery transformation programme, including long term planning, Better Value (CIP) delivery programmes, and major strategic developments.
They will develop expert knowledge of the positioning of the Trust in benchmarking performance data from a range of sources and utilise this to support service and financial performance improvement.
Working for our organisation
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) is an international centre of excellence in child healthcare. GOSH is an acute specialist paediatric hospital with a mission to provide world-class care to children and young people with rare, complex, and difficult-to-treat conditions.
Great Ormond Street Hospital receives nearly 300,000 patient visits (inpatient admissions or outpatient appointments) every year (figures from 2018/19). Most of the children we care for are referred from other hospitals throughout the UK and overseas. There are 60 nationally recognised clinical specialities at GOSH; the UK's widest range of specialist health services for children on one site. More than half of our patients come from outside London and GOSH is the largest paediatric centre in the UK for services including paediatric intensive care and cardiac surgery.
GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent, and free from bias and discrimination.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view the attachment below. www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration
Person specification
Values
Essential criteria
- Our Always values • Always welcoming • Always helpful • Always expert • Always one team
Knowledge and understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives
Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace
Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential criteria
- CCAB Qualified Accountant
Educated to first degree level or equivalent experience
Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Project management qualification e.g., Prince 2, Managing Successful Projects of equivalent
Better Business Case Foundation and Practitioner
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Substantial Senior Financial Management experience in the NHS Acute Trust Sector preferably in a large Teaching Hospital or a Specialist Provider.
Experience of providing financial leadership to large scale CIP/Transformation programmes including assessing viability of initiatives, providing assurance on delivery of projects, and assessing benefits realisation.
Experience of co-ordinating multiple complex projects with co-dependencies where demonstrable benefits were delivered.
Subject matter expertise in financial and economic aspects of project and programme management; analysis of project proposals and business case development; understanding of the necessary stages of implementation of innovative projects in a health and social care environment.
Working Knowledge of health and social care roles, responsibilities, priorities and policy direction.
Experience and Knowledge of designing and implementing robust governance arrangements for major work programmes including ensuring compliance.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading Major Projects and development of HM Treasury Green Book compliant business cases
Knowledge of the main procurement legislation applicable to NHS and/or social care commissioned services.
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
Excellent customer care skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills.
Ability to communicate complex financial and activity information concisely and effectively to non-financial colleagues.
Financial analysis, forecasting ability.
Advanced reporting skills.
Excellent budget setting skills.
Able to interact credibly at a senior level in the organisation.
Excellent financial modelling skills.
Ability to motivate and lead staff.
Corporate and commercial awareness.
Proactive.
Good team player.
Company
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) is a national centre of excellence in the provision of specialist children's health care, currently delivering the widest range of specialist care of any children's hospital in the UK. It is the only specialist Biomedical Research Centre for paediatrics, the largest centre in the UK for children and young people with heart or brain problems, and the largest centre in Europe for children and young people with cancer. It works in partnership with the UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH), part of University College London, and together they form the largest paediatric research and teaching centre in the UK.
The hospital at Great Ormond Street is the only exclusively specialist children's hospital in the UK. It does not have an Accident and Emergency department and only accepts specialist referrals from other hospitals and community services. The population of children and young people served by the hospital is characterised by those with multiple disabilities and/or health problems and rare and congenital (present at birth) conditions. Many children and young people need the help of different specialist teams. Improvements in health care and diagnosis mean that many children and young people have dramatically improved survival rates and more therapeutic options than was the case 10 years ago. Sadly though, many of the children cared for at GOSH still have life threatening or life-limiting conditions.
The hospital receives over 255,000 patient visits (inpatient admissions or outpatient appointments) a year and carries our approximately 18,800 operations each year.
The hospital has 383 patient beds, including 44 intensive care beds (21 CICU, 15 PICU and 8 NICU). Many of the children and young people on our wards require high dependency care or are classed as ward intensive care, requiring one-to-one nursing.
Around 4,100 full-time and part-time staff work at the hospital. The ICH has around 600 staff. Many senior staff have roles in both organisations.
The hospital has approximately 50 paediatric specialties, the widest range of any hospital in the UK, which uniquely enables it to diagnose and pioneer treatments for children and young people with highly complex, rare or multiple conditions. It has 19 highly specialised national services.
- Location
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Barclay House
37 Queen Square
London
WC1N 3BH
United Kingdom
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