Head of Finance - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Job summary

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to lead the Operational Productivity Unit to drive improvements in both productivity and efficiency.

The Operational Productivity Unit is a recently established team within the Finance department tasked with leading the Trust's productivity agenda, supported by data, analytics, and business intelligence. The post-holder will be joining a dynamic and skilled team at the heart of GSTT.

The post-holder will be responsible for:

This role is advertised as a 12 month fixed-term contract or secondment.

Main duties of the job

Duties and Responsibilities

Management

Responsible for the line management and development of all permanent members of staff within the OPU Team, together with any trainees or staff on secondment to the department. This includes ensuring that training requirements are met and that poor performance is managed.

Responsible for recruitment and management of the Team within the allocated budget.

To ensure that the team (including yourself) comply with the requirements of the Data Protection Act and GDPR with regard to the confidentiality of personal information for both patients and staff.

Provide specialist training on a range of subjects to financial and non-finance staff throughout the Trust.

To ensure that NHS accounting principles and relevant technical updates are understood and incorporated into Team's operations.

To own the policies pertaining to this team and the specialist subject matter, ensuring that they are regularly reviewed and updated.

Engagement within the Wider Trust

To lead on engagement within the Trust to further establish the OPU Team as a trusted source of valuable information. To develop and embed organisational "buy in" for the shift to a data driven approach to improving services and financial efficiencies.

To take large volumes of complex subject matter and convert them into reports and/ or conclusions that can be easily understood across the Trust (particularly by clinical budget holders).

Post EPIC, to establish systems, processes and reporting for the Team that provide required outcome to drive performance improvements.

To ensure that the Team operates efficiently and effectively, providing actionable data and analysis.

To obtain regular feedback on performance through either formal survey or regular engagement, ensuring that recommendations are assessed and used to the benefit of the Team and the Trust.

To ensure that appropriate research is undertaken to establish the function within the Trust and that it continues to develop to meet the needs of the Directorate and the wider Trust.

Data Management

To ensure the integrity of data sources and have a developed technical understanding of the software and systems used.

To create a culture of continuous improvement within the team, taking internal feedback and using any available resources in the wider sector to ensure that data is managed to the maximum benefit of the Trust.

To incorporate appropriate checks, balances and controls into procedures, processes and reporting to ensure that data is robust and that any inconsistencies and/or error are identified early and promptly remedied.

To engage and liaise both internally within the Trust and with external resources to identify information that can best be applied to monitor performance (Including KPI's and benchmarking).

To support and educate finance and non-finance Teams across the Trust then ensure that data is maintained and managed appropriately across the Trust.

To promote good data management across the Trust, to identify any areas for data cleansing and/ or improvement.

To interpret sector wide data collection and methodologies (eg Model Hospital/GIRFT/HFMA/Shelford Group).

To ensure that any external data and/or national data collection requirements with the NHS are met within set deadlines.

To be the technical expert within the Trust on the Data and Analytics Team's systems and operational processes.

Analysis

To analyse significant volumes of data and draw conclusions that can drive operational, performance and financial improvement within the Trust.

To link with a range of staff across the Trust from Team Leaders to Trust Executives to understand areas of potential improvement and support staff in agreeing methodology, timescales and metrics to deliver that improvement.

To advise non-financial staff on the need for benefits realisation by understanding the wider financial context of the Trust, ICS and wider sector. To negotiate and influence where there is a conflict between financial benefit and clinical ambition.

To design/ produce audience appropriate, user friendly reports in a regular and timely fashion that inform users of performance against pre-agreed targets. Target audiences will vary in seniority and size and will need to understand potentially complex or contentious information.

To receive, understand and link complex financial and non-financial information to draw supported conclusions that can drive performance improvement and/ or deliver savings to the Trust.

To interpret and manage large volumes of complex information potentially from multiple sources.

To interpret and present financial and non-financial information to staff with varied levels of financial literacy.

To educate and support non-financial staff in the interlinkage between operational and financial data.

To support on the preparation of Business Cases linking capital and revenue investment to the wider Trust savings Programme and challenging against other sources of current information to maximise cost/ benefit to the Trust against potentially completing objectives.

To identify initiatives that could improve the financial and/ or operational position of the Trust. To ensure that wider complications (such as opportunity cost, impact on other Teams, clinical strategy as examples) have been considered. To negotiate, advise and influence where there are differences.

To lead on the review process for identified initiatives, either through post project appraisal or lessons learned review as appropriate.

To link within the Finance Directorate, informing and working closely with key deliverables such as Annual Planning, the Cost Improvement Programme and Costing.

Other

To provide support to the Associate Director of Finance - Data and Analytics to undertake other duties as required, which are consistent with the grade and nature of the post.

The post holder will be expected to provide management cover for other senior staff during any absence.

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high-quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities and a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.

The commitment of our 24,000 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.

Education/qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Communication / Relationships

Essential

Previous experience

Essential