Head of Finance Contracting Full Time

Responsible for the management of the Healthcare Contracting Finance and Income Teams, which will lead on all contracting and negotiating healthcare contracts and repatriation with Foundation Trusts, Welsh Health Boards, Private Healthcare Providers, Individual Patient Funding requests, Welsh Specialised Services, other Income sources (including Private Patient Income, Overseas Visitors, Road Traffic Injury), Non-Contract charges, Welsh Government and the Department of Health.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for conducting and leading highly complex and sensitive negotiations with Health Organisations (Trusts, Foundation Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups), to negotiate contracts for patients treated outside of BCU and for patients treated by BCU. This is extremely contentious and requires excellent and finely-tuned communication and negotiation skills, alongside highly specialist and advanced financial knowledge of contracting and pricing.

Working alongside Executive and Clinical Leaders within and outside of the Health Board, this requires a very senior accountant with the highest level of finance skills experience, professional standing and personal effectiveness and credibility to deliver the role. The postholder will represent the Health Board on external meetings and networks and be the professional lead for Contract Finance

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for our organisation

If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework.

Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The postholder will play a key role in the strategic planning, sourcing and delivery of additional clinical capacity required to ensure the Health Board can deliver safe quality services to patients, working closely with senior operational and clinical colleagues to ensure due process is followed through the planning, procurement, evaluation implementation and ongoing monitoring. Ensuring reliable and robust systems / processes are implemented to ensure safe transfer and tracking of patients to and from providers and once treated activity is validated for payment in accordance with contractual and finance frameworks.

Ensures all contract expenditure is correctly and appropriately recorded and accounted for in line with legal and statutory accounting guidelines, procedures and timescales, and that all relevant notes and supporting documents are completed as part of the Welsh Government Statutory NHS Accounts and monthly Monitoring Returns, through the completion of own work and through the supervision and coordination of the work of others.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professional Accountancy qualifications e.g. CCAB member, with significant post qualification experience working at Masters level.
• Very highest level of financial knowledge gained by extensive Continuous Professional and Personal Development, gained through courses and experience in complex organisations to Doctoral level equivalent.
• Expert knowledge of the Welsh Financial Contracting Situations and key differences between them.
• Expert knowledge of Financial Regimes and Flows, in particular the National Payments By results (PBr) rules and regulations, as they apply to both NHS Wales and NHS England (differently).

Desirable criteria

• Post graduate management qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant post qualification experience of financial and accounting procedures including contract management, financial reporting, financial management, budgeting, audit, risk & performance management and NHS financial policies and process
• implement systems, protocols and processes that significantly change business approaches.
• Significant and extensive experience of negotiating, provision and commissioning with Welsh HB’s NHS Trusts , CCG’s and Private Sector Providers.
• Significant experience of influencing clinical decision makers

Desirable criteria

• Post graduate management qualification.