Assistant Director - Financial Planning Delivery Directorate

Required

The Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate (“the Directorate”) was established to provide professional support to Welsh Government to respond and deliver on the financial challenges facing NHS Wales. The Directorate operates across Wales and in support of all NHS Wales organisations as required. This includes:

1. Monitoring and managing financial risk in NHS Wales, responding at pace where organisations are demonstrating signs of financial concern.
2. Support the robust development and delivery of in-year and medium term financial and resource plans.
3. Driving forward the efficiency agenda for NHS Wales, working with NHS Wales organisations to ensure maximum return from efficiency opportunities.
4. Promote and embed best practice financial management and use of resources.
5. Developing a Centre of Excellence for Financial Information and Intelligence, reflecting costing, benchmarking, resource allocation, and utilisation, to assist in driving improvements on both technical and allocative efficiency across NHS Wales.
6. Lead research and identifying best practice in financial management and rapid adoption of proven practice and evidence in a consistent and comprehensive way across Wales. This includes best practice approaches, methodology, and deployment.

The Directorate will enable this agenda and deliver these objectives through building effective relationships within and across NHS Wales, and Welsh Government.

The role will have significant freedom to act, and as part of the senior team will operate at a strategic level with stakeholders spanning NHS Wales organisations, Welsh Government policy leads, national and international stakeholders, national clinical leads, and other NHS Wales teams including other Directorates within the NHS Executive. The Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate is passionate about people and professional development, with an ambitious development programme for the overall team and all team members. This role is an ideal opportunity for someone who is looking to develop their skills and experiences across a broad and exciting national agenda.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

1. Lead the production, validation and improvement of Welsh costing data, including the governance of costing and benchmarking practitioners in delivering this agenda.
2. Develop the use of costing data which includes connection and modelling with other data as part of ‘big data’, to support the wider planning and efficiency objectives of the Directorate. This will include the integrity, quality assurance and maintenance of associated analysis products.
3. Strategically and technically develop the associated national guidance and standards, cognisant of future direction and aligned through input from stakeholders.
4. Foster and maintain a lead relationship with costing and benchmarking system providers, on behalf of NHS Wales.

The NHS Executive works in partnership for and on behalf of Welsh Government, in and with the NHS in Wales and is hosted by Public Health Wales.

Our key purpose is to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care – resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.

We do this by providing strong leadership and strategic direction – enabling, supporting, and directing NHS Wales to transform clinical services in line with national priorities and standards.

To find out more about working for us and the benefits we offer please visit

For guidance on the application process, please visit

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mrs Jessica Hammond Job title: Business Support Manager Email address:

For any questions about the role or to arrange an informal visit please contact: #J-18808-Ljbffr