Overview
Assistant Director - Strategic Costing Lead, Performance & Improvement
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, supporting the robust development and delivery of in-year and medium term financial and resource plans, driving forward the efficiency agenda, promoting and embedding best practice financial management and use of resources, and developing a Centre of Excellence for Financial Information and Intelligence to assist in driving improvements on technical and allocative efficiency across NHS Wales.
The Directorate will enable this agenda through building effective relationships within and across NHS Wales, and Welsh Government. It is focused on developing people and professional capability, with an ambitious development programme for the team.
For guidance on the application process, please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance/.
For further details or informal visits contact: Name: Jessica Hammond Job title: Business Support Manager Email: jessica.hammond@wales.nhs.uk
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, including 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, 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 to ensure outputs are understood and appropriately used.
* Support NHS Wales Performance and Improvement works in partnership for and on behalf of Welsh Government, in the NHS in Wales and hosted by Public Health Wales, driving improvements in quality and safety of care, equity of outcomes, access, patient experience and population health.
Our key purpose is to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care by providing strong leadership and strategic direction to enable, support, and direct NHS Wales to transform clinical services in line with national priorities and standards.
Notes: This role includes working across NHS Wales and Welsh Government and aligns with the organisation’s development programme.
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