Assistant Director - Financial Planning Delivery Directorate

Job overview

The Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate (“the Directorate”) was established to provide professional support to Welsh Government to respond and deliver on the financial challenges facing NHS Wales. The Directorate operates across Wales and in support of all NHS Wales organisations as required.

This includes:

• Monitoring and managing financial risk in NHS Wales, responding at pace where organisations are demonstrating signs of financial concern.
• Support the robust development and delivery of in-year and medium term financial and resource plans.
• Driving forward the Value & Sustainability agenda for NHS Wales, working with NHS Wales organisations to ensure maximum return from efficiency opportunities.
• Promote and embed best practice financial management and use of resources.
• Developing a Centre of Excellence for Financial Information and Intelligence, reflecting costing, benchmarking, resource allocation, and utilisation, to assist in driving improvements on both technical and allocative efficiency across NHS Wales.
• Support the development of Value Based Healthcare within NHS Wales as required.
• The Directorate will enable this agenda and deliver these objectives through building effective relationships within and across NHS Wales, and Welsh Government.

Main duties of the job

The role will have significant freedom to act, and as part of the senior team will operate at a strategic level with a number of Directors of Finance, executives from NHS Wales organisations, Welsh Government policy leads, national and international stakeholders, national clinical leads, and other NHS Wales teams including other Directorates within NHS Wales Performance & Improvement. The Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate is passionate about people and professional development, with an ambitious development programme for the overall team and all team members. This role is an ideal opportunity for someone who is looking to develop their skills and experiences across a broad and exciting national agenda.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing the direct organisational liaison role to a number of NHS Wales organisations;
• Providing support and challenge to specified NHS Wales organisations in line with the Welsh Government Escalation and Intervention Arrangements;
• Providing financial leadership to national committees and programmes examining opportunities to improve value and financial sustainability within the Welsh NHS;
• Leading on behalf of the Directorate the support and development of key areas of national policy and developments;
• Providing the lead finance support role to Welsh Government policy leads on key NHS programme areas; and
• Leading on behalf of the Directorate the relationship management and learning from key external stakeholders.