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Site: Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Town: Chesterfield
Salary: Salary range dependant on experience, starting from £52,285
Closing: 01/01/2025 23:59
Job Overview
DSFS Ltd is seeking to recruit a successful candidate into the position of Head of Financial Intelligence. This job has been reviewed to ensure we are meeting the needs of the changing landscape around us in terms of understanding a raft of financial information, the impact on patient pathways, and where we have room for continuous improvement in our processes and outputs.
This will help us support the organisation in making informed decisions in the interest of the patients we serve, focusing on our strategic objectives, and engaging internally and externally across the Derbyshire Healthcare system.
This post will be part of delivering leadership the "DSFS Way," delivering our services and support in a 4 colour way linked to our organisational values (Respect, Reliable, Resourceful, and Responsive).
Within Finance, you will be an active member of one of our new Excellence groups, helping develop and promote change in the interest of our staff and customers.
The team operates a hybrid working model of 3 days on-site and 2 days working from home each week. The role is advertised as full-time permanent; however, we are open to conversations around other flexible options.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship; any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered.
Interview W/C 15th January 2025
Main Duties of the Job
This role will oversee and lead the costing team and will have close links with divisional stakeholders to ensure good engagement with our costing information, linking with the available benchmarking tools to help assist our focus as an organisation around best practice, realigning resources, and proactively informing and supporting divisions around their processes and utilisation of resources. (Includes development of our patient level information costing system).
Working for Our Organisation
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance, and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS is proud to strive to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences, our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
* Practical experience of NHS Costing.
* Evidence of ongoing professional or personal development, e.g., Continuing Professional Development.
* Evidence of leadership development.
* Fully CCAB qualified.
* Postgraduate degree level education or equivalent knowledge and skills.
Experience
* Background in an NHS costing function including exposure to SLR reporting.
* Practical experience of delivering PLICs.
* Experience of engaging and communicating effectively with people at all levels.
* Experience of modelling the financial impact of service pathway design.
* Expert analytical skills to solve highly complex financial and non-financial problems.
* Track record of financial and non-financial achievements.
* Experience of leading, managing, and developing teams.
* Knowledge/Experience of working outside organisational boundaries in a wider system.
* Experience with external benchmarking tools including Model Hospital.
Skills and Knowledge
* Ability to interpret highly complex information, including national financial policies, using skills, knowledge, and judgement.
* Active listening skills, to interpret managers' needs and issues.
* Support and participate in leading and shaping the vision of the Finance Team.
* Understanding of NHS national context, policies, payment structures, and other strategic issues.
* Ability to forge and maintain constructive relationships with senior managers with the ability to communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary and team-based environment.
* IT literate, preferably MS Office, including ability to design and utilise.
* Ability to express facts, ideas, and opinions clearly and directly both orally and in writing to both internal and external stakeholders.
Personal Attributes
* Effective team worker.
* Highly proactive.
* Ability to work autonomously.
* Resilient.
* Motivated to work in the NHS.
* Caring.
* Confident with a positive attitude.
* Professional work approach.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
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