Head of Financial Strategy

1 week ago

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Full time

Come and join a friendly and supportive team in this newly created post that seeks to drive high quality financial performance to support the delivery of community care for patients of Norfolk.


The finance team at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is looking to recruit a Head of Financial Strategy.

You don't need an NHS finance background to join us, we are interested in anybody who is enthusiastic, with strong communication skills and a passion for delivering excellent customer service for an organisation which delivers outstanding care to the people of Norfolk.


The role includes managing two Strategic Finance Managers and is responsible for leading on The Trust's strategic financial planning, supporting the annual budgeting and financial planning process, and delivering financial business cases for strategic / investment opportunities.


You should have significant experience of communication and influencing with senior, non-financial colleagues, be able to juggle competing priorities to ensure your team delivers a wide range of internal and external reporting requirements and ideally have experience in delivering financial transformation / efficiencies.


We are a small (26 staff), friendly, and supportive NHS finance team, dedicated to supporting our organisation in delivering outstanding care to our patients.

Our team is split into Corporate Finance, Financial Management and Financial Strategy.


Training and development is a key feature in the team with Apprentices, Graduate and Undergraduate Trainees as well as supporting staff to complete their professional qualifications where appropriate.

We are proud to promote equality, diversity, inclusion and flexible working, scoring well in a recent survey undertaken by Future Focused Finance (FFF) and NHS staff surveys.

In addition, the team scores highly in national and local staff engagement surveys. We have FFF accreditation level 1 and have applied for level 2.

The team's vision is "Supporting colleagues and partners to improve the quality of people's lives, in their homes and community by providing relevant and timely financial insight, information and advice.

The Trust is an accredited employer with ACCA (GOLD).

Staff Management

  • Providing day-to-day management of the Strategic Finance Manager (s), including recruitment, training and discipline.
  • Appraising each member of their staff in line with the Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF)
  • Agreeing and developing annual personal development plans with staff and support them with any training or development requirements in order to fulfil their role.
  • Planning the workload of the team over the financial year and ensure that the resources are in place to deliver the plan.
  • Co-ordinating the workload of staff, re-distributing and prioritising in line with changing demands and in conjunction with the Head of Finance as required.
  • This role links with Finance Skills Development (FSD) and Student Skills Development (SSD) ensuring opportunities are shared across the wider Finance Team.
Financial Control
To ensure that all elements of work undertaken or reviewed within the department adheres at all times to the Trust's:

  • To ensure that the Trust makes the best use of its resources and provides value for money.
  • To develop key financial reporting systems to ensure the Trust can operate effectively in a competitive environment.
  • To undertake thorough financial risk analysis and reporting on the outcome of that analysis regularly to the Director of Finance & Performance and the Associate Director of Finance, alerting them to risks that may prevent the Trust from meeting its statutory duties and compliance framework.
  • To lead on the development of effective identification, implementation, control and reporting of Cost Improvement Programmes across the Trust, undertaking thorough risk analysis and reporting on the outcome regularly to the Executive Team and Finance and Performance Committee, alerting them to risks that may prevent the Trust from meeting its statutory annual cost saving programme.
  • To develop the department's strategic financial and CIP reporting processes in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements of NHS Improvement, and the Trust's Commissioners as well as meeting the requirements of in-house stakeholders, including senior managers and budget managers, taking into account any future amendments to these agreements.
  • To provide information as necessary to external bodies, including commissioners, NHS Improvement, the Department of Health and Social Services, ensuring compliance with any national returns required of the Trust, and any new returns until they become embedded within the financial management team as business as usual.
  • To provide complex financial modelling scenarios for the five-year financial plan that takes account of investment opportunities, developments, efficiencies, risk assessment and mitigation, sensitivity analysis

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