Full Time - Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom - Surrey Heartlands ICB

Description

Surrey Heartlands is an influential Integrated Care System (ICS) which has been at the forefront of health and care integration since its inception in 2017. Following a period of stable leadership, we are now looking for a new CFO to help lead the ICS on the next part of our journey.

You will be deeply committed to the integration agenda and have a natural ability to engage, influence and collaborate with multiple and varied stakeholders to continue our shared purpose towards improving the health and wellbeing of our population.

You will be a credible leader, capable of leading the health and care system through this period of significant financial challenge and in driving forward an ambitious sustainability plan at both system and Integrated Care Board (ICB) levels.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities will include the development and implementation of the financial strategy - including ensuring incentives are properly aligned within the system to help delivery of a 'system control total' reflected in operational business plans.

Your experience will help ensure systems, resources and teams are in place to provide complex analysis to understand the financial and service implications associated with commissioning decisions and performance of providers, as transformational developments are agreed and implemented.

We are looking for a high calibre individual who can lead us through this continued journey of transformation. If you share our ambition, vison, and values, then we look forward to receiving your application and meeting with you in due course.

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best boards are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and minority ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.

About us

Surrey Heartlands is a partnership of organisations working together - with staff, patients, their carers, families, and the public - to support people to live healthier lives. Surrey Heartlands developed into an Integrated Care Board (ICB) in July 2022, working through 4 Integrated, dynamic, and sustainable partnerships (ICP's) , each working together to deliver a shared vision across Surrey. ICP's aim to improve how local services are designed and co-ordinated for efficiency and benefit to the patient and service users. Each partnership is based on co-operation with our component partners, and focusing on local population needs, priorities and decision making.

The 4 ICP's are known as:

• North West Surrey Alliance
• Guildford and Waverley Alliance
• Surrey Downs Health and Care
• East Surrey Place

We have an ambitious vision for transformation and continuous improvement of health and care across our footprint and to deliver our objectives we need a team of capable, collaborative professionals who share the same vision. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We welcome all applications, especially those from underrepresented communities, including people with a disability, and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the role which can be downloaded.

Person Specification Experience

• Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) qualified or equivalent.
• Educated to Master's level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Significant proven relevant experience at a senior
• Evidence of on-going and up-to-date professional, managerial and leadership development
• Significant experience of working at a strategic and very senior management level or equivalent covering a range of NHS and or social care sectors
• Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
• Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
• Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment
• Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies
• Member of a relevant professional body
• Experience and/or understanding of the health economy.
• Extensive knowledge in areas of finance planning and management
• Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
• Extensive experience of financial strategy development, with the ability to create real engagement and momentum for successful delivery

Communication

• Ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context
• Can convey key messages clearly and concisely and able to adapt communication style effectively and with agility
• Exceptionally strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling the media
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders, as required
• Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
• Experience of chairing meetings effectively

Analytical

• Outstanding high ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources; and demonstrate, through the use of information and data, how improvement can be achieved
• Demonstrate capability to act upon incomplete information, or where the way forward is not known, using experience to make inferences and decision making
• Highly developed analytical skills to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions

Planning

• Lead the way in developing plans that clearly exhibit what needs to be done, by when and how
• Validate how local plans connect to the vision, strategic thinking and planning
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Can map out a critical path and identify plans to 'turnaround' a failing situation, maintaining a tight grip and control to hold self and others to account on delivery

Commercially Astute

• Highly developed political skills and the ability to navigate constructively through political debate that can stifle plans and action
• Demonstrate best practice by adopting the NHS constitutional values of: respect and dignity, commitment to the quality of care, compassion, improving lives, working together for patients
• Demonstrate an understanding of the healthcare system in order to know what the 'right' business decisions are that need to be made in order to achieve future transformation, such as the development of the ICS to recognise and realise system-wide opportunities
• An experienced strategic thinker with the ability to translate ideas and policy into action in the delivery of major customer-focused initiatives

Autonomy

• Provides assurance from own self confidence of being capable to manage own workload and make informed decisions, even when paving the way when there is no defined answer
• Ability to act without delay, make decisions autonomously when required, on difficult issues.

Management

• Experience in leading major change and transformation with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment.
• Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring a workforce to work together to achieve a common objective
• Ability to delegate effectively and efficiently
• Ability to work on multiple activities, manage under intense pressure or times of uncertainty and work between strategic and operational activities where required
• Able to balance competing priorities and make difficult decisions
• Holding others to account: insisting on improved performance if standards are slipping and supporting to achieve performance

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.