Investment Appraisal Officer

6 months ago


London, United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 348701**Salary**:

- £40,025- National: £40,025, London: £44,043- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- This role is being advertised on a permanent basis. If preferable, Loan or Secondment options will also be available for existing Civil Servants (Loan) and applicants from accredited NDPBs or any other employer (Secondment).**Business area**:

- DHSC - Finance - Capital Directorate**Type of role**:

- Finance
- Strategy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- Leeds, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose - to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you.

This is an exciting time to be part of the DHSC’s Investment Appraisal team. We are a diverse group of individuals who appraise and assure some of the Department and Government’s most high-profile investment programmes such as the New Hospitals Programme, Adult Social Care Reforms or new capital investment for Diagnostics or the Elective Recovery backlog. In addition, we support and assure a varied and interesting portfolio of projects which includes but is not limited to:

- NHS Capital Investments such as upgrades, refurbishment or reconfiguration of hospitals and the wider NHS Estate
- Vaccine procurements
- Major NHS and DHSC policy initiatives and delivery.

The work we do matters, assessing major investment programmes and projects business cases to ensure they are set up for success, and supporting them to deliver health and care infrastructure that truly affects everyone’s lives.

The team sits within the Capital Directorate, which brings together the policy, financial and project management experience to deliver the Department’s ambitious capital investment programme for the NHS estate, the Department and its other ALBs.

We are a multi-disciplinary, multi-site team with a focus on learning and developing our people, delivering at pace and strong stakeholder engagement. We work as one virtual team with our partners in NHS Finance to improve the quality of business cases, alongside co-ordinating the engagement and input of a broader network of Economic, Commercial, PFI and Project Management specialists. We value diversity, inclusion, teamwork, continuous improvement, and flexible working arrangements.

**Job description**:
The role will assist the G7 Investment Appraisal Manager to coordinate the assurance process for a portfolio of major capital investments across DHSC, its Arms-Length Bodies and the NHS as outlined above.

**Person specification**:
Key accountabilities for the role include:

- Produce reports and briefings for the Department’s Investment Committee and the Joint NHS Investment Committee and Sub-Committee on business cases working as one National Capital Assurance Team with NHS Finance colleagues
- Draft written submissions to Ministers reflecting the Investment Committee’s assessment and advice on specific business cases for G7 Investment Assurance Manager’s approval.
- Act as a business case partner for programmes and projects being an independent source of advice and information on development of high quality business cases and successfully navigating the approvals process. This may include:

- Contributing to ad-hoc continuous improvement projects, business case standards and guidance for use across the Department and NHS.
- Assisting with the organisation and delivery of ad-hoc training to DHSC policy teams on business cases to covering the HMT Green Book and five case model and how the Investment Approvals process works and promote best practice across the system.
- Support junior staff as needed to plan and co-ordinate effective running of the Department’s 3 Investment Committees

**Key skills and experience required for the role**

Builds Relationships - Experience of communicating and influencing internal and external stakeholders up to Senior Civil Servant level.

Communicating and Influencing - Experience preparing high quality written advice, tailoring communicating styles within a variety of contexts and audiences.

Your normal place of work will be your contractual primary workplace, usually either London or Leeds. Within DHSC we offer non-contractual hybrid working. The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time spent in the office, enabling in person interaction and collaboration and enhancing team working, learning, and support.

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