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Job overview

Following a restructure of the finance team, a fantastic opportunity has arisen at Barking Havering & Redbridge University Hospital NHS Trust (BHRUT) for an Associate Director of Finance (ADOF) – Business Partnering (8D).

This role is aligned to the Financial Strategy Insight and Delivery Team whose mission is to improve financial sustainability through uncompromising focus on value and driving out financial waste from our operational processes and patient pathways.

Combining evidence-based insight with strong customer focus, the ADOF – Business Partnering will influence decisions and plans about use of healthcare resources in a way that will improve patient care and achieve better value for our patients.

Although reporting to the Deputy CFO Strategy, Insight and Delivery, the ADOF – Business Partnering role is very much embedded in the clinical group triumvirate and will manage a small team of business partners, covering approx. £300m of revenue spend.

The successful applicant will be a fully qualified member of a CCAB body with a solid background in business partnering but more importantly have the gravitas, credibility, and communication skills to influence senior stakeholders, ensuring engagement and collaboration.

Main duties of the job

The ADOF – Business Partnering, with the support of their business partners, is responsible for driving the reduction of financial waste and increased productivity to move the organisation to a sustainable breakeven position. 

You will build effective partnerships with clinical and operational teams, being highly visible and demonstrating compassionate leadership. Through these relationships and having developed an excellent knowledge of services and patient pathways, the post holder is responsible for converting evidence of financial opportunity into multi-year financial improvement delivery plans, supported by the PMO.

The Finance Directorate is structured into four specialised teams. In addition to strategy, insight and delivery, we have teams dedicated to planning and reporting, investments and commercial, financial services and accounts. Drawing from each team, you will lead a customer focused multidisciplinary finance service with the purpose of facilitating our clinical and operational teams to deliver highly efficient care we are proud of. 

You will be an expert in business cases, leading on the appraisal of value and affordability and acting as a critical friend.

You will provide high quality strategic and tactical financial advice to the clinical groups and corporate teams, enabling them to make good financial decisions to optimise value from healthcare resource.

Working for our organisation

We provide care for the residents of three diverse London boroughs. Most of our 7,800 permanent staff live in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. We also provide healthcare services to people in south west Essex, and specialist neurosciences services to the whole of the county.

Our services include all the major specialties of large acute hospitals and we operate from two main sites - King George Hospital in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London – more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023. We also provide outpatient services at Brentwood Community Hospital, Barking Community Hospital, Loxford Polyclinic, and Harold Wood Polyclinic.

We’re pleased to be leading the way in wait to get the treatment they need. The Elective Surgical Hub at King George Hospital is one of eight to be ; the Care Quality Commission has raised the ratings for at Queen’s and King George hospitals; and showed that the Trust was the most improved in 2023 for reducing waits for emergency care. 

We are particularly proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre; Radiotherapy Centre; Hyper Acute Stroke Unit; and dedicated breast care service at King George Hospital. We’re also part of the .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

Current qualified member of a recognised professional accountancy body (CCAB/CIMA). Educated to masters level or equivalent experience.

Desirable criteria

Training in Quality Improvement methodology.

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria

Develops plans and business cases (applying the 5 case model), engaging effectively with stakeholders.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

Customer focussed.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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