Head of Finance - Health and Care Partnership

The Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of the Integrated Care System (ICS), namely: to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money; and help the NHS support broader social and economic development.

Whilst ICSs provide an opportunity for Health and Care partners to come together at a larger footprint, partnerships at 'place' and 'neighbourhood' levels will continue to play important roles in integrating services and meeting population needs. There is now an increased focus on system integration, collaboration, system financing and improved ability for shared decision making.

Reporting to the Associate Director - Health and Care Partnership Finance (AD-HCP), the Senior Finance Manager - Health and Care Partnership will be responsible for supporting the development the Hertfordshire and West Essex Health and Care Partnerships (HCPs) to take on delegated functions from the ICB with a focus on outcomes for local populations rather than activity; and supporting greater integration across NHS and care services., The post holder will be responsible for supporting the management of financial resources delegated to each of the place.

The post holder will support all aspects of place based financial planning including development of the long term financial plan and preparation of the annual operational plan for each place.

The postholder will engage with and support the place-based teams to have a greater understanding of the financial context within which they operate, challenges facing each place, better informed decision making and improved financial performance.

The postholder will contribute to and help shape the collaborative and effective approach to service transformation and pathway redesign, with the use of Population Health Management information, to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities within the financial resources available.

The postholder will work in a matrix management style and foster close working relations with ICB place based teams to further develop their commissioning functions.

The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Organisation.

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.

The ICB's role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.6 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

It's an exciting time for us and we're looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.

So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.