London
Director of Strategic Finance
Guy's and St Thomas' Trust
Description
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We have an ambitious capital programme across our sites, in addition to our significant standing capital programme, which is principally focussed on the day to day asset replenishment. We have established key teams within finance, to lead the production of actionable productivity data and have a good track record of establishing and developing successful commercial initiatives.
We are now recruiting to the vacant Director of Strategic Finance post. This is one of two Director of Finance posts, reporting to the CFO and is a key member of the senior finance team.
The post has a broad remit including being a key interface to the Integrated Care System and South East London Acute Provider Collaborative. It also holds responsibility for the medium and long term planning, major capital, costing, the finance operational productivity unit and maximising the Trust's commercial income.
The post holder will be expected to deputise for he CFO across a range of duties and will attend the Finance, Commercial and Investment Board Committee and other Board meetings are required.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Steven Davies, CFO via [email protected]
Main duties of the job
Further information can be found in the attached job description and person specification attached to this advert
Working for our organisation
Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, is among the UK's busiest and most successful. IN February 2021, the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we provide ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience, as well as safe, high quality care.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are on of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff, so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2022 NHS staff survey results, show that we have one the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Represent the Trust and CFO at a range of external forums, particularly as a key leader within the Integrated Care System and Acute Provider Collaborative where the Trust will play a leading role.
Represent the finance function at key internal forums, including at Board Committees.
A leading role in devising and implementing the organisation’s long and medium term planning to ensure that strategic objectives are cascaded down to all levels and that plans are realistic and achievable. This will be evidenced by the successful construction and submission of a long term financial plan that reflects the triangulation of activity, workforce and finance and is accepted and agreed as appropriate.
Oversight of the operational productivity unit which will produce actionable analysis to improve efficiency and productivity. Oversee the team and provide leadership by establishing the unit’s role within the Trust along with the production of an agreed annual work-plan.
Oversight of medium and long term cost improvement plans ensuring consistency with the Trust Financial Plan and assurance of the financial delivery of cost improvement plans on an annual basis. This will be evidenced through the design, implementation and monitoring of a 3 year rolling cost improvement plan and the routine reporting of financial delivery against agreed plans.
Facilitate strategic thinking and decision making which will be evidenced through the delivery of a sustainable long term financial plan that sets the annual parameters of planning and budget production and capital planning and is routinely used to assess in year decision making and investment/disinvestment decisions.
Provide advice and leadership on change management, business and commercial opportunities, financial planning and strategy, performance and investment appraisal. This will be evidenced through the design, implementation and maintenance of investment decision making processes and the quality of investment cases and investment appraisals within and outside the Trust.
Formulating, implementing and monitoring financial plans and strategies. This will be evidenced through the use and effectiveness of long term plans.
Senior finance leadership of the Trust’s commercial activities, managing the central commercial directorate activities as part of the role portfolio and maximising and diversifying income sources. Acting as a key link point for development of the Trust’s 5 private patient services driving the growth of services and financial contribution through targeted investments and service consolidation.
Represent the Trust on its wholly and partially owned corporate entities as required, providing advice to the CFO and Trust Board on performance and future configuration of the company portfolio.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Graduate
CCAB qualification - “Qualified Accountant”
Evidence of Continual Professional development
Desirable criteria
MBA
Experience
Essential criteria
A substantial and impressive track record of achievement at senior management level/leadership roles up to and including Deputy Director level in a large comparable, complex organisation
Management of substantial change in a pressurised environment
Experience of running commercial entities and generating new sources of commercial revenue
Experience developing the systems, processes and procedures which are appropriate to ensure the smooth operation of the Finance Function of an NHS Trust
Skills
Essential criteria
Able to work across multiple organisations in senior partnership roles on behalf of the Trust
Able to persuade and influence effectively very senior managers both within the Trust and in partner organisations
Able to cope positively and resiliently with uncertainty, challenge and critical scrutiny
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Further details / informal visits contact
Name
Paula Daly
Job title
EA to CFO
Email address
[email protected]
Expiry date: 30/10/2023
Director of Strategic Finance
Company
Guy's and St Thomas' Trust
Job Type
Full-time
Location
London
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Guy's and St Thomas' Trust
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About us
As part of one of the largest and most engaged workforces in the NHS you'll have access to our unrivalled training and development programmes.
We want the best people to join us, learn with us and grow with us, so whether you're in a clinical or non-clinical role we’re committed to creating a supportive and inclusive culture in which you can progress and be your best.
We are an inclusive organisation
Promoting diversity, equality, accessibility and inclusion is at the heart of everything we do for our patients and how we make our trust a great place to work.
We welcome people from all backgrounds. Our fair recruitment practices offer equal access to employment opportunities and our staff networks enable everyone's voice to be heard.
We are committed to ensuring all of our 23,500 staff feel valued and have the support they need to do their job to the best of their ability.
Our health and wellbeing programme is one of the most comprehensive in the NHS and provides a wide range of benefits and support to help in your professional, personal and family life.
Our Commitments
Living Wage Employer
Disability Confident
Armed Forces Covenant
Hiring Local
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