Job vacancy: Assistant Director - Financial Planning Delivery Directorate, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, Pencoed,

Job summary

Main area: Finance
Grade: Band 8c
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 028-AC367-1024

Employer: Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: 2nd Floor, Unit 1
Town: Pencoed,
Salary: £75,405 - £86,885 PA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/11/2024 23:59

Assistant Director - Financial Planning Delivery Directorate

Band 8c

Welcome to the NHS Wales Executive, a new national support function, operational from 1 April 2023

Our key purpose is to…

Drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.

To find out more visit NHS Wales Executive.

Our values

Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference

Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English. To support our all Wales service, we particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

If you are a highly motivated, experienced, and qualified finance professional with a strong demonstrable background in financial management, performance, intelligence, and delivery then we would be keen to hear from you and welcome your application.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

CCAB / CIMA Qualified & Member of Professional body.
Educated to Postgraduate level or equivalent, Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Desirable criteria

Programme / Project Management qualification
Evidence of personal research into a clinical, managerial, financial area

Experience and Specialist Knowledge

Essential criteria

Extensive experience, working at a senior level in a large complex organisation, Proven experience of developing and delivering financial management services successfully for a large organisation.
Minimum of five years experience as a senior finance manager within the NHS
Record of effective contribution to the development of business strategy, Experience of planning and implementing long-term development programmes.
Experience of strategic thinking at a senior level, Ability to influence at all levels and a highly strategic thinker
Proven track record of successfully introducing service improvement or successful management of significant organisational change in a complex environment, Participation in significant change management projects
Significant experience of working with staff, their representatives and professional organisations, Demonstrable success in building, leading, motivating, managing and developing teams

Desirable criteria

Experience of Turnaround & Intervention approaches and delivery, Demonstrates expertise in specific professional areas
Good knowledge of NHS Wales finance regime, including a thorough understanding of organisations financial duties, responsibilities and governance requirements, Good understanding of the concepts of Value Based Healthcare

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

Ability to analyse and appropriately present often highly complex information, Highly tuned analytical skills, including ability to identify key issues from a range of complex financial data, Able to interpret complex qualitative and quantitative information and provide advice to senior leaders
Ability to communicate excellently both verbally and in writing in a manner which is clear, fluent and persuasive
Self-motivated and committed to developing self and team members, Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload and that of the team to operate effectively, Ability to work independently to a specified remit, ensuring agreed deadlines and deliverables are met
Able to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills, displaying credibility, influence and political acumen, Proven ability to achieve targets and objectives within a demanding and pressured environment against challenging deadlines.
Standard keyboard skills
Sound judgement, decision making, and organisational skills, Able to interpret legislation and guidance as appropriate to the role.

Desirable criteria

Ability and confidence to constructively challenge and support senior NHS staff and their teams
Ability and confidence to demonstrate leadership across NHS Wales on driving improvements in financial planning and financial management

Disposition

Essential criteria

Appropriate attitudes with a high level of professional ethics and integrity, Enthusiastic, Committed, Proactive, and Innovative

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

Must be mobile and able to travel locally and nationally, Emotionally Intelligent, Politically astute & high level of intuition, Work collaboratively & build relationships effectively, Resilience & reliability under pressure, Appetite for challenges, with a high level of personal integrity

Desirable criteria

Ability to communicate in Welsh

NHS Wales Executive, reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications.

Priority is given to staff awaiting redeployment. We therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage.

If you have a disability and have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application process, please contact [email protected]

If you are successful and short listed for interview you will be contacted by email using the address with which you registered. Please ensure you check your email account regularly.

We are committed to fair, transparent recruitment and believe in equality of opportunity in our workplace and will not tolerate discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender identity, religion or belief, race or nationality, marriage or civil partnership status, sex, sexual orientation, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs – or on any other grounds. We welcome applications from individuals who may wish to work part time or apply on a job share basis.

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

The salary scale shown is for a full-time member of staff, with the amount being adjusted pro rata for those working less than 37.5 hours per week.

In general, anyone joining our organisation who has not previously worked in the NHS will, by default, start on the first point of the advertised pay band. Pay progression will then be determined by annual Performance and Development Reviews in accordance with the NHS Wales Pay Progression Policy. An application for Incremental Credit may be considered, but can only be awarded based on evidenced, reckonable service and/or equivalent, relevant experience.