Apply promptly! A high volume of applicants is expected for the role as detailed below, do not wait to send your CV.Overview
The Financial Strategy and Payments Team is now recruiting for a Payment Development Senior Manager. This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the heart of work to support the NHS.
- works closely with government to agree NHS funding
- ensures the NHS lives within its annual budget
- decides how to distribute the funding to the different NHS services and parts of England
- supports innovative programmes that improve the care and experience of NHS patients or people using NHS services
- sets out the financial and performance priorities the NHS should be delivering each year
- reports how much the NHS has spent on providing services each year
- explores how the NHS can make the best use of its money
- looks at how spend on building or equipment can improve the care and experience of people using NHS services
- considers how nationally we use these resources to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce inequality, improve health and support the NHS.
As a Payment Development Senior Manager, you will work as part of a dynamic team on the development of the NHS Payment Scheme. This includes designing new payment approaches and financial incentives to support the wider commitments of NHS England and the priorities set out in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan. The team offers high‑profile, fast‑paced projects. This requires adaptability, rigour and innovation and provides exciting development opportunities for those developing their careers in the NHS, health or the public sector.
Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver projects that contribute to wider strategic aims
- Lead the development of payment models and approaches for NHS services
- Engage with the wider healthcare system and other parts of NHS England in the development of policies and payment approaches
- Explore the use of innovative payment approaches to support the longer‑term ambitions of the NHS
Qualifications and Experience
- Member of a relevant professional body or equivalent work experience
- Experience of developing policy proposals/solutions
- A strong understanding of the background and aims of current healthcare policy
- Experience of drafting material designed for external audiences, papers for internal briefings, and writing guidance for use by the health service
- Knowledge of existing payment and pricing mechanisms in the NHS
- Strong communication and engagement skills and ability to provide highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
- Capability to analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales
- 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
Secondments
- Member of relevant professional body or equivalent worked experience, Experience of developing policy proposals/solutions
- A strong understanding of the background and aims of current healthcare policy
- Experience of drafting material designed for external audiences, papers for internal briefings, and writing guidance for use by the health service
- Knowledge of existing payment and pricing mechanisms in the NHS, Strong communication and engagement skills and ability to provide highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Capability to analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales, 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, 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
UK Registration
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where people can develop and make a difference
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money
Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and waste. If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. 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‑person. xwzovoh Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
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