Business and Performance Manager

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Job overview

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference to the lives of children and young people living in London?

We have an exciting new role for an experienced Finance and Business Manager to provide high quality support in the areas of finance, performance data and service promotion.

Our services work with children, young people, and their families across two diverse London boroughs. We provide a range of services including universal support for all and specialist support for those with additional needs and disabilities.

You must be skilled in team working and have excellent communication skills in addition to experience in the administrative elements of the role.

We will welcome you into our friendly, forward-looking services and provide excellent support including access to a Whittington-wide network, supervision, and training/development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

Develop and maintain robust systems for reporting local financial information in a clear and analytical way.

Liaise with external stakeholders and commissioners on business matters and respond to related queries.

Support service managers in the annual budget-setting process, including cost improvement planning and income generation.

Work with the CYP Transformation Team and service managers during contract negotiations, providing financial modelling and workforce costing.

Lead and motivate administrative staff, ensuring regular one-to-ones, appraisals, induction and probation processes.

Support monitoring of compliance with internal and external governance and best practice requirements.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Develop robust systems for reporting local financial information in a clear and analytical way.
Liaise with external stakeholders and commissioners on business matters and respond to related queries.
Act as the main point of contact for income-related financial issues.
Support service managers in the annual budget-setting process, including cost improvement planning and income generation.
Work with the CYP Transformation Team and service managers during contract negotiations, providing financial modelling and workforce costing.
Support the development of business cases, tendering for new services and income generation through financial and performance information.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• 1. Relevant degree or equivalent experience within the workforce
• 2. IT Courses - Excel/SharePoint for example.
• 3. Finance, business administration or project management training

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• 1. High levels of organisational skills to schedule and prioritise own workload to meet strict deadlines
• 2 High level of expertise in numerical, analytical and data management
• 3 Good analytical skills, including ability to summarise and interpret results
• 4. Good verbal and written skills including report writing and presentation skills

Knowlesge and Experience

Essential criteria

• 1. Evidence of project management experience
• 2. Experience of managing a range of difficult or challenging situations
• 3. Experience developing and improving systems, processes or service pathways
• 4.. Knowledge of financial processes including budget setting, and income tracking
• 5. Knowlege of workforce planning and service modelling

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form -

1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes -

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information -

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job description and personal specification (PDF, 296.4KB)
• Whittington Probationary Policy (PDF, 298.0KB)
• Whittington Employment Promise (PDF, 22.4KB)