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Financial Improvement Governance Lead

On-site in Middlesbrough·Full-time·Added today (last checked 10 Nov)

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Our summary

Salary: £32,073 - £39,043 a year
About £2,220 - £2,640 a month after tax.
Work mode: On-site, Middlesbrough
Contract: Full-time
Closing date: Apply by Tuesday 17 November

Skills

Nice to have

Accounting

The role

Job summary

The post holder will join the group Service Improvement & Project Management Office (SIO/PMIO) based at James Cook University Hospital but will work and support at other locations of University Hospitals Tees. This role will involve working closely with the Service Improvement Partners and Project Managers, Clinical CSU's and corporate areas, to support the development, delivery and reporting of the Cost Improvement Plan (CIP) for University Hospitals Tees.

Main duties of the job

Support the SMA - Cost Improvement to ensure a comprehensive CIP scheme and financial tracker is maintained, containing the plans, actuals, forecasting, risks and issues. Month end financial processes and regulatory reports.

Support the SMA - Cost Improvement with identifying, costing and validating CIP schemes.

Deputise for the SMA - Cost Improvement on reporting processes, month end tasks and ownership of the overall financial tracker management.

Implement and maintain appropriate governance for all improvement schemes, ensuring that required documentation and approvals are in place for all schemes. Advise and support with the preparation and enhancement of these.

Provide administrative support to the Group SIO/PMIO teams, and directly to the Group Deputy Director - Financial Improvement.

Provide project delivery support for specific schemes or improvement programmes.

Support and administer meetings, as required.

Support the benefits realisation process, including identifying costs and savings associated with schemes and monitoring to ensure these are realised. This includes implementing and maintaining a robust business case review process.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.

Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.

We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive recruitment process and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates, including those who first language is not English.

We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see main job description for detailed responsibilities of this role.

Implement, maintain and advise on governance for all improvement schemes, ensuring that required documentation and approvals are in place.

Provide administrative support to the Group SIO/PMIO office and teams, and directly to the Group Deputy Director Financial Improvement

Provide project delivery support for specific schemes or improvement programmes.

Prepare monthly reporting for the Cost Improvement Planning Delivery, the Corporate Improvement Planning Delivery and the Financial Recovery Oversight Group.

Support and administer any meetings, as required. Service meetings through production of agendas, taking minutes of meetings, capturing relevant discussion and action points.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of maintaining and improving central reporting suite / governance processes to provide assurance on progress against deliverables
Experience of developing and implementing robust office procedures

Desirable

NHS experience.
Experience of NHS budget and cost improvement planning processes
Experience in a finance department

Qualifications

Essential

Degree or equivalent relevant experience
Evidence of Continuous Professional Development

Desirable

AAT Qualified or equivalent

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

Excellent planning, prioritisation, time management, accuracy and organisational skills
Ability to use Microsoft Outlook and Office packages - for Word, Excel, Powerpoint presentations and Teams channels, to develop and manipulate spreadsheets and databases
Ability to create and use Pivot Tables.
Complex data analysis and manipulation from a wide range of sources and present in succinct format. Strong analytical and judgement skills

Desirable

Knowledge of NHS Foundation Trust regime
Knowledge of strategic and policy background, performance management and financial framework of the NHS
Understanding of good accounting procedures and policies and their application to the NHS

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).