The ICB Primary Care Finance team is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to cover a 12 month period of maternity leave from August 26 – August 27 on a full time or flexible basis. This Finance Manager post plays a crucial role in managing the financial operations and statutory reporting for Primary Care within the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB). This position ensures effective budget planning, financial governance, and compliance with NHS policies to support high-quality healthcare services.
The role involves collaboration with various stakeholders and leadership teams to deliver accurate financial reporting and support service redesign initiatives.
The position manages a 37.5-hour workweek, reports to the Head of Primary Care – Financial Management, and oversees 2 Finance Officers.
Key responsibilities include statutory reporting, budget preparation, financial planning, prescribing reporting and leadership in Primary Care commissioning finance.
Essential qualifications include being CCAB qualified with at least 2 years NHS finance experience and skills in NHS finance regimes, communication, and financial analysis.
- Providing strong professional advice and support both within and across the ICB.
- Ensuring that the ICB commissions cost effective care for its population within the resources available so that value to patients and taxpayers is maximised.
- Responsible for statutory reporting requirements for Primary Care and Prescribing monitoring.
- Ensure that reported information is timely, represents an accurate view of performance, any financial risks understood by financial and non-financial managers.
- The post holder will act as the ICB Prescribing, LES, DES, Premises subject matter expert.
- Prepare the ICB Primary Care annual budget for key deliverables such as the prescribing, enhanced payments, cost pressures, procurement developments and WRP delivery plans.
- To set and communicate annual budgets with budget holders through the preparation of supporting schedules, presentations and approvals as appropriate.
- Provide financial input into primary care business cases for service redesign and cost saving initiatives.
- Monitor and update financial allocations for in year changes.
- Preparation of budget level reporting, commentaries, forecasts and associated supporting schedules.
- Deliver required working papers and month end reported information to the agreed timetable.
- Ensure detailed procedure notes are maintained and regularly reviewed for all areas within your control.
The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formally established as a new statutory body on 1 July 2022, replacing the eight clinical commissioning groups across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
Our role is to join up health and care services, improve people's health and wellbeing, and to make sure everyone has the same access to services and gets a positive experience from treatment. We also oversee how money and resource is utilised to ensure that funding is spent to ensure health services are effective, consistent and of high standard
Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB is a complex organisation serving a population of over 1.8 million people.
The Finance Manager – Primary Care will be responsible for statutory reporting requirements for Primary Care, associated NHS England returns and will meet the Board level reporting requirements. The postholder will assist with developing systems to provide accurate and timely financial reporting.
They will act as finance lead for the Primary Care commissioning function providing sound financial and technical advice to both internal and external stakeholders and partners for contract management and service redesign. They will interpret complex changes in national policy relating to Primary Care and the financial implications for the ICB is a key component of the role.
Key responsibilities
The role will be varied and will adapt over time as the ICB develops. However, the postholder is expected to fulfil the following key functions: -
1. Delivery of the ICB Primary Care finance reporting.
2. Preparation of the detailed ICB Primary Care annual budgets in partnership with finance colleagues.
3. Finance lead for the Primary Care commissioning function areas
Key working relationships
The post holder will have regular contact with a wide range of staff at all levels within the ICB, with senior and other representatives of local stakeholders, as well as with patients and their representatives. Some of the key direct relationships include:
- Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB leadership teams
- Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB commissioning teams / service managers
- Clinical Leaders / GP / PCN Leads
- Finance colleagues within the ICB / provider organisations
- Colleagues within NHSE/I
- Leaders across Lancashire and South Cumbria, NHS, local authorities, other voluntary and independent sector organisations.
- Internal and External audit
