Associate Director – Income and Healthcare Contracts

Job overview

An exciting career opportunity has arisen for an Associate Director of  Finance to join our Finance Team at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

The purpose of this role is to provide financial leadership to  the income and contracts teams using all available informatics to support delivery of a sustainable organisation.

Main duties of the job

The main focus of the Associate Director of Income and Healthcare Contracts are:

To evolve and deliver the Trust’s commissioning strategy including managing the changes required both in the commissioning landscape, function and trust wide resulting from national policy and the annual changes to commissioning terms

Lead the planning process for clinical income both the top-down plan and bottom-up budget setting with services, understanding and applying all developments in the NHS revenue and contracting guidance

Develop the reporting and understanding of income within the organisation, to ensure that there is a good and widespread understanding of activity and income performance against plan, the forecast and actions required to address any variations from plan.

To be the main liaison with the various Trust’s commissioning clusters, Integrated Care Boards, specialist, and consortia Commissioners and be the lead Trust representative at the Integrated Care Board and Commissioner Clinical Review Group

To lead on the annual negotiations with commissioning bodies

To manage the Contracts team and be responsible for all aspects of the contracts process.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view the attachment below.