Costing Lead

The post is a one year fixed term post to cover maternity leave. The role provides an exciting opportunity to work in an integrated trust covering acute, community and mental health costing. You will be responsible for leading the Trust's costing function and supporting an established team. This is a senior role supported and recognised by the Trusts senior management as being vital in meeting the Trust's strategic aims. As the costing lead you will support and enable operational teams to make the best use of costing information.
You will be responsible for maintaining and developing the Trusts patient level costing (PLICS)/service line reporting (SLR) model and completing the national cost collection (NCC). A new costing model (IQVIA) has recently been implemented and the role provides the opportunity to develop the model and embed within the organisation. You will be joining a team with good working relationships with the clinical divisions and information department., 1. The post holder will lead on maintaining and developing the Trust's patient level costing (PLICS) model.
2. The post holder will lead on reporting and development of Service Line reporting (SLR).
3. The post holder will be responsible for completing and submitting the Trust's national cost collection (NCC).

Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work., 1 Responsible for the delivery of a robust costing system that can be used to support clinical divisions and the finance team to identify efficiencies and ensure value for money is being provided to the NHS.
2 Responsible for the completion and submission of the Trust's annual national cost collection (NCC) by planning the timetable required for data collection and cost allocations to ensure the submission is made appropriately and in line with national and Trust guidance and timescales. Ensuring all data providers are aware of the timetable and format of the information required.
3 To be the Trust expert in NHS costing and to continually review published national guidance to ensure the costing principles are being adhered to and that the costing system is updated for any changes to the guidance. Updating procedure notes where necessary.
4 Continually review the quality of data provided/downloaded to the costing system, working closely with finance colleagues and information department to constantly improve and enhance the data. Undertaking audits as necessary to both the inputs and outputs of data. Ensuring the data that is provided is in line with current NHS guidance and where necessary making recommendations for improved data capture.
5 To work with key operational and clinical staff to continuously improve the Trust's Patient Level Costing (PLICS) system, for example to oversee the routine review of allocations and estimations that are used.
6 To promote the patient level costing system and its outputs to the organisation, including formal presentation of data when required to large groups of managers and/or clinicians, using relevant presentational aids.
7 To prepare complex SLR reports to Trust senior executives and the Trust Board regarding the viability of clinical services to inform strategic executive decisions.
8 To work with Directors and Managers to provide innovative, comprehensive reports as required (often on an adhoc basis). This may require attending meetings and presenting this information - this may involve presenting complex, sensitive and contentious information to groups of managers and/or clinicians with recommendations for service changes. Skills will be required to negotiate and persuade managers where there are likely to be barriers to their understanding.
9 Liaise with colleagues in other organisations and using benchmarking tools to improve the accuracy and consistency of costing data and the understanding of methodologies and processes and to implement best practice
10 Review and analyse new guidance relating to NCC, Service Line Reporting and other regimes to assess the impact on the Trust, producing timetables for submissions in agreement with other parties involved. Report this information in required format to Directors and the Board.
11 Analyse and benchmark published data for the Trust against other similar organisations to gauge value for money and robustness of information. Use findings to update future processes and to inform best practice.
12 Work closely with managers and Directors to provide complex financial input into business cases, tenders and contracts, making financial judgements as necessary to meet service delivery requirements, and to assist in bids for service developments and improvements (both capital and revenue).
13 Day to day management of the costing accountant.
14 Responsible for ongoing development of the PLICS system including any required upgrades or developments
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
+ Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
+ Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
+ Participate in required training and supervision.
+ Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form -
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Our processes -
1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
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4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information -
+ Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
+ Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
+ In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
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We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation