Strategic Costing & Productivity Lead

NHS Jobs; Bath, Swindon, Salisbury; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Bath is seeking a Groups Costing Lead to drive the costing strategy across the Group, interpret national requirements and define methodologies and priorities. You will set up costing steering groups, share best practice, and coordinate across Informatics, finance and service managers to ensure robust, auditable data and timely cost collection.

This role focuses on continuous improvement of service line reporting and patient-level costing to support planning, performance management

Responsibilities

• Act as Groups specialist lead for costing and develop the Group costing strategy, interpreting national requirements and determining methodologies and priorities needed to improve the quality and value of costing information.
• Establish costing steering or assurance groups to develop the use of costing information, including its application to productivity analysis, and share best practice using appropriate frameworks.
• Lead continuous improvement for service line reporting and patient-level costing, coordinating input from finance and service managers to review and challenge source information and produce regular costing data for planning and performance management.
• Ensure the Group meets national cost collection deadlines by coordinating the Costing team with Informatics, service managers and finance to produce robust, auditable costing data.
• Ensure costing and service line data is rolled out across the Group to support decision-making and analysis, including cost improvement programmes and national initiatives.

Job description

NHS Jobs in Bath is seeking a Groups Costing Lead to drive the costing strategy across the Group, interpret national requirements and define methodologies and priorities. You will set up costing steering groups, share best practice, and coordinate across Informatics, finance and service managers to ensure robust, auditable data and timely cost collection.

This role focuses on continuous improvement of service line reporting and patient-level costing to support planning, performance management