Assistant Director - Financial Planning Delivery DirectorateinPencoedinPencoedPUBLISHED FRI 7 MAR 2025

The Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate ("the Directorate") was established to provide professional support to Welsh Government to respond and deliver on the financial challenges facing NHS Wales. The Directorate operates across Wales and in support of all NHS Wales organisations as required. This includes:

Monitoring and managing financial risk in NHS Wales, responding at pace where organisations are demonstrating signs of financial concern.

Support the robust development and delivery of in-year and medium term financial and resource plans.

Driving forward the efficiency agenda for NHS Wales, working with NHS Wales organisations to ensure maximum return from efficiency opportunities.

Promote and embed best practice financial management and use of resources.

Developing a Centre of Excellence for Financial Information and Intelligence, reflecting costing, benchmarking, resource allocation, and utilisation, to assist in driving improvements on both technical and allocative efficiency across NHS Wales.

Lead research and identifying best practice in financial management and rapid adoption of proven practice and evidence in a consistent and comprehensive way across Wales. This includes best practice approaches, methodology, and deployment.

The Directorate will enable this agenda and deliver these objectives through building effective relationships within and across NHS Wales, and Welsh Government.

The role will have significant freedom to act, and as part of the senior team will operate at a strategic level with stakeholders spanning NHS Wales organisations, Welsh Government policy leads, national and international stakeholders, national clinical leads, and other NHS Wales teams including other Directorates within the NHS Executive. The Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate is passionate about people and professional development, with an ambitious development programme for the overall team and all team members. This role is an ideal opportunity for someone who is looking to develop their skills and experiences across a broad and exciting national agenda.

Your responsibilities will include:

Lead the production, validation and improvement of Welsh costing data, including the governance of costing and benchmarking practitioners in delivering this agenda.

Develop the use of costing data which includes connection and modelling with other data as part of 'big data', to support the wider planning and efficiency objectives of the Directorate. This will include the integrity, quality assurance and maintenance of associated analysis products.

Strategically and technically develop the associated national guidance and standards, cognisant of future direction and aligned through input from stakeholders.

Foster and maintain a lead relationship with costing and benchmarking system providers, on behalf of NHS Wales.

Contribute to the Value Based Health and Care agenda and direction, providing specific costing expertise and leadership. From this acting as the lead contact with national programmes in this area to the VBHC programme.

Provide leadership and expertise in these topics that supports the education and development of others, including presenting complex data in an accessible way, to ensure that outputs are sufficiently understood and appropriately used.

About us

If you are a highly motivated, experienced, and qualified finance professional with a strong demonstrable background that includes costing, financial management, performance, intelligence, and delivery then we would be keen to hear from you and welcome your application.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.