Head of Income Contract

3 weeks ago


Bedford, United Kingdom Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Join a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As well as offering a competitive salary, annual leave and pension package the Trust prides itself on providing a varied and wide range of staff benefits. We are proud to have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge healthcare.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Head of Income, Contracts and Costing, to join the Finance team. If you are looking for a challenging, interesting and dynamic role, our Finance team is the right place for you. You will join an enthusiastic, driven and caring team in a friendly, professional working environment.

Although primarily site-based, there may be an opportunity for hybrid working.

We are looking for an individual who is committed, compassionate and self-motivated, able to work well within a team and under pressure. We are looking for a professional with excellent communication skills, ability to form good partnerships, and confident in dealing with difficult situations. Good excel skills are vital and you will be trained to use service level agreement monitoring and costing software, as necessary.

You will join a modern and progressive Trust that believes that helping to keep our staff healthy and happy is one of our key responsibilities.

This role is pivotal in ensuring that the Trust receives all the income it is due. The post holder will manage the team responsible for managing and reporting the Trust’s income position. An understanding of the developments in the NHS funding and contracting regime is essential as the Trust looks to develop its recording and reporting accordingly. The role will also include meeting with commissioners to discuss service performance and contract management, including negotiating contract variations.

The Income and Contracting team is also responsible for producing the Trust’s National Costing Collection reports (patient level costing) and will ensure submission of timely, accurate and complete reports.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career.

We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Please review all documents attached to this advert to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

**Main responsibilities**:
Ensuring that the organisation produces accurate and timely information for the management and monitoring of contracts or service level agreements (SLAs) with commissioners, e.g. Integrated Care Boards and that income reporting is actioned in line with national timescales.

Managing the income and contracting team and the internal and external reporting of income and activity.

Directing the team responsible for the National Costing Collection (patient level costing) and ensuring submission of timely, accurate and complete reports within national timescales.

Producing timely and accurate reports to support decision making in the trust and working closely with the Information and Pharmacy teams for the resolution of contract challenges.



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