The Senior Costing and Planning Manager provides a central role in the costing and planning processes across the organisation. You will join a small dynamic team within the Finance directorate that is responsible for a broad range of activities including business planning, business development, contract management and pricing and costing decision support. You will be an integral member of the team and will require working with a diverse range of people both within and outside the Trust.
You will be a qualified Accountant, possess expert NHS financial and accounting knowledge, have strong analytical ability, and an excellent eye for detail. In this role you will have significant opportunity to use your initiative and learn about key strategic and operational challenges.
Your key responsibilities will be:
Leading the business development across the range of physical and mental health services. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that business procedures are efficient, effective and business focussed and protect the organisation from risk.
The Trust expert for mandated National Cost Collection returns and leading the enhancement of overall quality of costing intelligence and its use across the Organisation.
Leading the corporate service benchmarking and analysis of data to gauge efficiency and value for money
Leading the implementation of the Trust pricing and costing policy and provide expert pricing and costing support and guidance in the evaluation of business developments.
Overseeing the business planning process to monitor activity and ensure alignment with budget setting and operational planning.
Leading and managing the costing team
You will be comfortable and successful working with a range of senior internal and external stakeholders, and in particular in building excellent working relationships with operational and other non-financial teams.
You will be confident, tenacious, have an enquiring mind, and be keen to further your personal development. Another key requirement is the ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing priorities in a positive and flexible way.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
The Planning and Business Development within Finance Directorate is responsible for a broad range of activities including:
- The delivery of business planning
- Promotion of business development including managing tender applications, and seeking new funding streams
- Income contract management for both NHS and non-NHS commissioners
- Provision of cost modelling to support the introduction of new services, and developments to existing services
- Managing and developing costing process, systems and reporting, including the production and submission of the annual national cost collection
- Use of local and national benchmarking information to identify opportunities for improvement and efficiency including corporate benchmarking and productivity
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