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Job overview

The Finance and Planning Directorate in NHS England is looking for a talented, diverse, highly motivated person to join the Primary Care Operational Finance team as Finance Manager. We:

• work closely with government to agree NHS funding;
• ensure the NHS lives within its annual budget set by Parliament;
• decide how to distribute the funding to the different NHS services and parts of England;
• support innovative programmes that improve the care and experience of NHS patients or people using NHS services;
• set out the financial and performance priorities the NHS should be delivering each year;
• report how much the NHS has spent on providing services each year;
• explore how the NHS can make the best use of its money;
• look at how spend on building or equipment can improve the care and experience of people using NHS services.
• consider how nationally we use these resources to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce inequality, improve health and support the NHS.

As a Finance Manager you will be responsible for management and delivery of key finance processes relating to Primary Care.  This will include assessing the impact of policy change and ensuring that accounting processes are aligned accordingly.  Also there will be close working relationship requirements with key process suppliers such as NHS BSA to ensure effective delivery of their services.  The work will cover the key primary care finance elements of general practice, dentistry, ophthalmic and pharmacy. 

Main duties of the job

Below are the types of skills and experience that we are looking for. Even if you feel you only meet some of the criteria, we encourage you to apply.

1.Holding a CCAB qualification, the post holder will lead and support the team and business in driving transformation as a lead subject matter expert with the technical skills and ability to support the understanding of primary care policy and processes, providing verbal and written monthly updates to the wider primary care community.
2. Be able to engage and work across senior teams ensuring the operational primary care transactional issues are quickly resolved and communicated to business users.
3. Ability to lead the team and assess and review primary care improvements, engaging and working with colleagues in the understanding and impact on policy change to the operational process supporting best practice and process adoption is assessed and delivered driving transformation within primary care.
4. Provide analyse and review of data from the variety of sources within primary care, holding third parties who support primary care operational processes to account and ensure they are delivering within NHSE documented policy and financial controls.
5. Ability to drive and support the team in a range of business initiatives and projects, strong communication skills, with ability to interpret policy and guidance and lead on policy changes that impact primary care operational delivery.

Working for our organisation

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.

The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .

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