Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Productivity and Costing Team and help develop the departments reporting procedures. Through this vital interaction, there will be increased engagement with the Clinical Community to identify and optimise the efficiencies and productivity opportunity to support the programme of service improvement.
The post holder will be the Trusts’ expert on Patient Level Information and Costing (PLICS), model hospital, benchmarking and other costing and productivity data. This post will require extensive liaison with divisional finance managers, medical, clinical, Business Intelligent Unit and other staff in the divisions.
Provide Trust lead on annual reference cost returns and responsible for submission inline with the latest timetable and requirements.
The post holder will oversee the costings and benchmarking support for the production of the annual and strategic financial plans in line with NHS Improvement deadlines.
The role will be responsible for developing the strategic direction of costing and productivity reporting and embedding it into the RUH.
Provide strategic business advice to the Divisional Management Team, through the use of PLICS data. This ensures effective use of financial resources in pursuit of agreed Divisional and Corporate goals.
Support the Service Improvement Board with the accurate and timely reporting – recommending appropriate metrics, tracking progress against objectives and indicating where workstreams are coming off track.
At the RUH we’re proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!
We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more aboutliving and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about ourextensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future withthe landmark Dyson Cancer Centreand ourpassion for research.
Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.