Assistant Director - Strategic Costing Lead, Performance & Improvement

Public Health Wales; Wales; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health organization in the UK seeks a candidate to lead the production and validation of costing data that supports NHS Wales. This role involves developing national guidance, maintaining relationships with data providers, and contributing expertise to Value Based Healthcare initiatives. The candidate must have strong leadership skills and a passion for improving patient experiences and outcomes within the healthcare system. This position offers an opportunity to develop strategic direction for NHS Wales.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading and validating costing data.
• Ability to develop national guidance and standards.
• Strong communication skills for presenting complex data.

Responsibilities

• Lead the production and validation of costing data.
• Develop connections with other data for efficiency objectives.
• Provide leadership in Value Based Health and Care agenda.

Job description

Overview

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.
• Supporting the robust development and delivery of in‑year and medium‑term financial and resource plans.
• Driving forward the efficiency agenda, working with NHS Wales organisations to ensure maximum return from efficiency opportunities.
• Promoting and embedding 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.
• Leading research and identifying best practice in financial management and rapid adoption of proven practice and evidence in a consistent and comprehensive way across Wales, including best practice approaches, methodology, and deployment.
• Supporting the development of Value Based Healthcare within NHS Wales as required.
• The Directorate will enable this agenda and deliver these objectives through building effective relationships within and across NHS Wales, and Welsh Government.

Main duties of the job

The 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 that outputs are sufficiently understood and appropriately used.
• NHS Wales Performance and Improvement works in partnership for and on behalf of Welsh Government, in and with the NHS in Wales and is hosted by Public Health Wales.
• Our key purpose is to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care, resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.
• We do this by providing strong leadership and strategic direction – enabling, supporting, and directing NHS Wales to transform clinical services in line with national priorities and standards.