Clinical Board Finance Manager

We are looking for finance professionals who can lead the way to support our Divisions / Clinical Boards to deliver their financial objectives including growing income and reducing expenditure, while continuing to deliver care for patients across the North East and Cumbria. We're offering two Clinical Board Finance Manager roles at Newcastle Hospitals who will play a key role in the delivery of the strategic aims of the new Clinical Board structure across the Trust. These are senior finance/business partner roles that will work closely with the Clinical Boards providing front-line support, ensuring robust processes and controls and specialist, in-depth financial advice. The role also links closely with Corporate Finance function to ensure the continued development of the Finance Department and its processes to support the Clinical Board structure., This is a senior finance role within Newcastle Hospitals providing a key link between operational and corporate management functions. The applicants will be working alongside senior leaders across the organisation to facilitate success of the Clinical Boards restructure and support to the Corporate Finance Department.

• Provide expert finance support to the Clinical Boards including the identification and delivery of cost improvement targets, strategic planning, performance management and preparation of business cases.
• Analysis of complex financial information and the ability to communicate this effectively to non-financial stakeholders to enable effective decision making
• Providing timely and accurate information to the Corporate Management Team to enable management of the Trust's financial position and to support the decision making process.
• Providing advice and guidance on all finance issues including appropriate challenge to inform decision making processes
• Support Clinical Boards in the analysis, understanding and use of Patient Level Costing and other benchmarking information to support development of their business plans
• Play a key leadership role in the annual business planning process providing high quality costing, budgetary and activity information
• To co-ordinate with other Clinical Board Finance Managers to ensure consistency of approach to common issues across the Finance Department
  
  Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites
  
  o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
o Newcastle Dental Hospital o Newcastle Fertility Centre o Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria o Northern Genetics Service o Cramlington Manor Walks These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS. We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.