Deputy Chief Finance Officer
Job Description
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board at a pivotal moment in the evolution of integrated care. As Deputy CFO, you will provide strategic financial leadership across the ICB and system, helping to secure long-term financial sustainability while supporting the delivery of improved outcomes for our population. Working closely with the Chief Finance Officer, executive colleagues and colleagues across the ICB, you will lead the development and drive delivery of a forward-looking financial strategy that balances statutory responsibilities with transformation, innovation and value. You will play a key role in shaping how resources are deployed to reduce health inequalities, improve population health and ensure the best possible use of public funds.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be a key leader across the ICB and will be responsible for convening partners to deliver financial plans and provide strategic financial leadership on ICB commissioning decisions. They will also support the delivery of all ICB statutory functions as appropriate. short-term goals and the long-term plan of the ICB whist ensuring this reflects and integrates the strategies of all relevant partner organisations of the ICS.
The postholder will ensure that there are effective mechanisms in place for anticipating, identifying, and responding to key financial risks (including risk sharing arrangements, develop new payment mechanisms) that could impact on the successful delivery of the ICB strategy
Ensure that the integrated care board (ICB) meets the financial targets set for it by NHS England and NHS Improvement, including managing financial risks to living within the overall revenue and capital allocation and the administration costs limit. As a member of the senior leadership team, support the executive directors of SYICB and provide senior leadership across the ICB Chief Finance Officer portfolio. The postholder be responsible for ensuring the delivery of the finance function and developing the streamlining where appropriate and in keeping with moving to best practice.
About us
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees health and social care for a population of 1.4m people. Working through our 4 places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on the strengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our local communities to deliver our four key aims of Improving outcomes in population health and healthcare; Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; Enhancing productivity and value for money; and Helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.
Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broader health, public health, and social care needs of the population across South Yorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and care services that meet the needs of the local population. In total there are 186 GP practices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals working across seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000 voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We work alongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSE partners and other partners to address health inequalities and wider determinants of health in South Yorkshire.
South Yorkshire ICB is a Disability Confident Employer
Job responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess verbal, written, numerical and draw appropriate conclusions.
- Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent in a relevant area of academic practice with in depth additional expert knowledge in specialist areas/subject matters expertise in a number of relevant disciplines or equivalent experience working at a commensurate band.
- CCAB Qualified accountant with relevant senior financial management experience.
- Additional management qualification or specialist qualification at post graduate level or significant leadership experience at post graduate level in specialist area.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Membership of a relevant professional body.
Experience
Essential
- In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in strategy formulation, Leadership, service improvement and resource management.
- Knowledge and experience of good governance practices and providing assurance to board members.
- Proven board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Experience of liaising and working with government departments on healthcare issues at a senior level.
- Experience of leading and managing an executive level department in healthcare and / or public sector.
- Extensive knowledge of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciation of the implications of this on engagement.
- An understanding of the relationship between individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
Desirable
- Commercial expertise.
- Previous experience of having corporate responsibility for major policy and service development incorporating national priorities.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
Address
197 Eyre Street
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 3HU
United Kingdom
