Senior Manager - Finance and Planning Business Partnering

Our Organisation

We share the core values set out in the NHS Constitution, which all colleagues are expected to demonstrate.

We support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you and your colleagues. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement, whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern.

Job overview

The People & CNO Business Partner Team in the NHS England Finance and Planning Directorate is now recruiting for Senior Manager.

• work closely with government to agree NHS funding
• ensure the NHS lives within its annual budget
• decide how to distribute the funding to the different NHS services and parts of England
• support innovative programmes that improve the care and experience of NHS patients or people using NHS services
• set out the financial and performance priorities the NHS should be delivering each year
• explore how the NHS can make the best use of its money
• look at how spend on building or equipment can improve the care and experience of people using NHS services
• consider how nationally we use these resources to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce inequality, improve health and support the NHS

As a Senior Manager, you will be a key member of the strategy and assurance team within the People & CNO Business Partnering team. You will work with a number of key stakeholders including budget holders, programme teams and policy leads. Some of the exciting work that you will be involved with includes:

• Supporting the education funding reform programme
• Maintaining and reporting unit costs for education and training
• Support the strategic policy decisions

Main duties of the job

The team offers high profile, fast-paced projects. This requires adaptability, rigor and innovation and provides exciting development opportunities for those developing their careers in the NHS, health or the public sector.

• The clinical and operational priorities, risks and opportunities associated with workforce and training for the NHS;
• The operational and financial relationships between DHSC, NHS England and individual provider and commissioners in the NHS
• Turning proposals for clinical or operational change into detailed costings and challenging these for efficiency and value-for-money gains
• Financial flows, allocations, contracts and pricing and financial incentives in the NHS
• Working with programmes across NHSE and wider stakeholders to develop new policy – identifying financial risks, and opportunities and advising senior finance and programme colleagues on how best to enact financial process and funding to ensure value for money.

Working for our organisation

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Interested in applying and want to find out more about our team and the work we do?

Please email Daniel Baxter, Head of Finance on [email protected] if you would like to discuss

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Secondments

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Have a CCAB Professional Accountancy Qualification / CIMA

Knowledge

• The clinical and operational priorities, risks and opportunities associated with workforce and training for the NHS
• The operational and financial relationships between DHSC, NHS England and individual provider and commissioners in the NHS

Skills

• Turning proposals for clinical or operational change into detailed costings and challenging these for efficiency and value-for-money gains
• Communicates and provides highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. (verbal, written and numerical)

Values

• Commitment to equality of opportunity, focussed on removing barriers to full participation and values diversity and difference.
• Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop
• Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values

Our commitments to you

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes.

We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued and empowered. When you join us, we want you to grow and excel, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that.

We welcome your talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

We ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process. This includes considering reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro-divergent.

We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate how you meet the requirements of the role. While we appreciate you may have had some support with your application (for example, using AI technology or guidance from a trusted individual), it’s important all the information you provide in it reflects your own knowledge, skills and experience and we trust that you apply on that basis.

If you’re applying for this role on a secondment basis, please get agreement from your current line manager before you apply.

We don’t accept applications via recruitment agencies, and we cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

To comply with the HM Government Functional Standard GovS 007, and specifically the Personnel Security Standards 2024, individuals employed or contracted by NHS England may be required to undergo a Baseline Personnel Security Standards check, dependent on the role.

NHS Business Services Authority is responsible for processing your application; our privacy can be accessed directly on the application page when you select to apply.

If you are appointed to a post, your information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

If you have a query about your application, please contact the recruitment team: [email protected] or 0300 330 1369.

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