Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Coldharbour Works Building
Town: London
Salary: £96,340 - £109,849 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/09/2024 23:59
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,500 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
Job overview
We are dedicated to fostering financial growth and efficiency across all areas of our business. As we continue to innovate and expand, we are looking for a forward-thinking financial leader with a passion for driving change and improving financial performance.
The Head of Financial Improvement is part of the senior team within Financial Strategy and Planning and sits within the Continuous Improvement function. Reporting to the Director of Financial Strategy, Planning and Investment, the Head of Financial Improvement is accountable for strategic improvement of the finance function and to drive the full portfolio of the financial improvement agenda Trust-wide.
Main duties of the job
Financial Improvement Programme
- Develop and maintain understanding of organisational goals, culture and constraints, ensuring workstreams are relevant to the King’s strategic direction and financial challenge.
- The post holder will be responsible for leading oversight and monitoring of Trust-wide workstreams to deliver the financial governance improvement programme and workstreams to deliver our financial strategy.
- The post holder should be familiar with using tools such as NHSE’s ‘grip and control’ checklist, HFMA’s ‘Improving NHS financial sustainability are you getting the basics right’ checklist, benchmarking tools including Model Health System, and Statistical Process Control reporting to support delivery of their work.
- Must be able to work with, support and influence wider finance team and key Trust-wide stakeholders outside of finance to develop and continuously improve good financial governance and enable delivery of the Trust’s financial strategy for their areas.
- Work with the Financial Improvement Lead and Director of Financial Planning, Strategy and Investment to establish and maintain a benefits realisation framework and ensure assigned workstreams implement this.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Professional Accountancy Qualification (CIPFA, ICAEW, CIMA or Certified) and current registration with professional body
- Demonstrable evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
- Extensive post qualifying experience covering the full range of responsibilities of a senior financial professional.
- Extensive experience of advising and working in tandem with senior managers and directors of a large, complex organisation
- Experience of financial staff development within a large NHS body or equivalent organisation
- Experience of developing training and development policies and practices, working jointly with other organisations to create a consistent approach.
Skills
- Articulate with highly complex interpersonal communication and presentational skills that have been practiced and developed
- Tactful, diplomatic and at ease with all kinds of people. Acts with integrity at all times
- Experience of delivering highly complex work programmes and projects against multiple challenging deadlines
- Experience of leading or advising on long-term strategic behavioural changes for the whole organisation
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- Please review the documentation on our recruitment microsite, particularly the Trust’s criminal records checking policy
- All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
- Due to a high volume of applications, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. It is therefore recommended that you apply promptly
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