Head of Finance - London, United Kingdom - Health Jobs UK

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Head of Finance (Financial Improvement & Commercial) Covid-19 Vaccination
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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS.

This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Head of Finance (Financial Improvement & Commercial)
The post-holder will provide financial leadership to the sustainability and recovery components of the Trust's financial strategy.

Specifically, this includes taking responsibility for overseeing the implementation of the Trust's efficiency plan and the provision of regular progress reports, internally and externally.

The postholder will work closely with the Director of Operations to support the management teams in the operational delivery of the efficiency programme (tactical Cost Improvement Programmes and cross cutting schemes) and ensure that robust governance arrangements are in place to enable progress tracking and early intervention where schemes are at risk of slipping.

The post holder will also have a key role to play in terms of longer-term sustainability and financial input to the development of medium-term financial strategy.

As Head of Finance you will play a key strategic leadership role within the Trust, focused on delivering finance transformational change and financial assurance activities across Whittington Health.

In conjunction with the Director of Operations (DOps) and Heads of Finance, support the design and development of robust project plans and lead on the operational delivery of the Financial Recovery Plan with cross cutting workstreams including:
Estates & Facilities
Retail/Commercial income

The finance team at the Whittington are now recruiting to this exciting role which is integral to the success of the organisation.

We are looking for talented and highly motivated individual to join our financial improvement team to support the delivery of safe, high quality, sustainable and effective services.

You will be a key member of the senior finance team, supporting the Trust to deliver its objectives to achieve financial sustainability.

Jerry Francine - Finance Director Operations,
[Experience of successfully supporting cost improvement and financial sustainability programmes


SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies , procedures and protocols.

All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

~ Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

~ Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
Participate in required training and supervision.

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.

Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns.

In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID.

TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating.

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Whittington Probationary Policy ( PDF , 298.