Head of Capital, Commissioning - Crewe, United Kingdom - Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Crewe, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Finance the postholder will be responsible for costing, efficiencies, commissioning and capital planning within the Finance Department, improving the information available to the Trust to make strategic decisions, using intelligence from the Trusts systems and external informatics.

This is a demanding senior role, where the post holder will be expected to work with significant autonomy and operate at a senior level within the Trust, with key operational and clinical teams.

The post holder will need to be an experienced, qualified finance professional and be adept at managing both their own and their team's priorities and ensure continuous development and improvement across the team and services provided.

They will also need to support staff with hybrid working and be flexible in their approach whilst ensuring high levels of service to the organisation.

Responsible for the internal/external reporting, annual and 3 year plan for capital investments, involving the engagements with clinical, operational, estates and IT teams to ensure a coherent joined up plan.

Responsibility for the production of the statutory returns, including forecasting and planning, and be the technical expert on commissioning, costing and capital in order to provide impact analysis where required to the relevant sub-committees of the Trust Board, i.e.

IRFS16 implications.

Analysis of costing and presentation of key issues to Trust Board and Clinical Divisions to inform strategic decisions, and inform efficiency/value opportunities.

To support the development and implementation of the Efficiency & Value plans, and identify potential areas for improved efficiency and provide direction in the delivery and monitoring of efficiencies.

Providing written and verbal reports monthly on the efficiency agenda, identifying areas of concern, and actions being taken to address them.

Provide financial support to the process of negotiating service level agreements with commissioners and act as lead finance contact with commissioners at all levels.

Develop and maintain production of performance reports to:

Integrated Care Board & PLACE.
Deputy Director of Finance for inclusion within the monthly board papers.
To Clinical Divisions through the regular income, efficiencies and costing reporting
Key subcommittees to the Trust board, such as capital reporting for ESSEG

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) is currently rated as good by CQC, and provides Acute and Community Care across Cheshire.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The finance team has recently gained it's FSD level 2 accreditation with the plan to become a level 3 organisation, meaning that your training and development is important to us.

The team has embraced hybrid working, with a based located offsite in Crewe for Corporate Services.

You will bring experience, drive, ambition, visibility and engaging leadership to the Finance Team and a true dedication to ensuring patients are at the heart of our decision making.

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients.

We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.

The full Job description has been included to provide the full details, and person specification associated with the role.