Associate Director – Income and Healthcare Contracts

Associate Director – Income and Healthcare Contracts

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

Closing date: 28 May 2026

The purpose of this role is to provide financial leadership to the income and contracts teams using all available informatics to support delivery of a sustainable organisation.

Main duties of the job

• To evolve and deliver the Trust’s commissioning strategy including managing the changes required both in the commissioning landscape, function and trust wide resulting from national policy and the annual changes to commissioning terms
• Lead the planning process for clinical income both the top-down plan and bottom-up budget setting with services, understanding and applying all developments in the NHS revenue and contracting guidance
• Develop the reporting and understanding of income within the organisation, to ensure that there is a good and widespread understanding of activity and income performance against plan, the forecast and actions required to address any variations from plan.
• To be the main liaison with the various Trust’s commissioning clusters, Integrated Care Boards, specialist, and consortia Commissioners and be the lead Trust representative at the Integrated Care Board and Commissioner Clinical Review Group
• To lead on the annual negotiations with commissioning bodies
• To manage the Contracts team and be responsible for all aspects of the contracts process.

Person Specification

Values

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• Knowledge and understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives
• Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace
• Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
• CCAB Qualified Accountant and educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Postgraduate degree qualification or evidence of regular attendance at relevant specialist courses
• Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development

Experience/Knowledge

• Significant experience of working in a senior management role including leadership at Trust level of the annual negotiations with commissioners and the acknowledged lead for the ongoing contract management processes
• Extensive NHS commissioning / contracting experience – significant experience working with NHS funding contracts
• Significant experience of negotiating funding contracts
• Demonstrable experience in commissioning and funding of specialized services
• Experience of managing complex IT /information systems
• Extensive experience in building and managing income reporting systems in a large and complex acute NHS organisation
• Operation of staff management, appraisal, and development schemes
• Delivering board level reports and presentations
• Demonstrable experience of Change Management
• Significant experience of data analysis
• Project management
• Extensive knowledge of the NHS funding structures and the commissioning regime
• Detailed knowledge of NHS Tariffs, coding and grouping mechanisms gained from working in an acute trust with multiple specialties
• Detailed knowledge of the NHS data model and dictionary and the clinical classifications that are used by the English NHS to describe healthcare activity and NHS information centre grouping methodology
• Detailed understanding of the NHS standard acute and specialist acute contracts
• Knowledge of the commissioning environment and associated policies which should include the clinical outcomes framework and measures for quality improvement
• Knowledge of the overseas payment rules and European reciprocal agreements
• Up to date knowledge of NHS regulations applicable to Foundation Trusts

Skills/Abilities

• Strategic, analytical, and creative thinking
• Being a values led leader who supports, nurtures and develops their team to enable them to be their best
• Leadership and Mentoring including helping the teams reporting to you prioritise workloads within a very busy work programme
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills including well Developed Presentation Skills – ability to explain complex subject areas to clinicians and non-clinicians
• Advanced skills in the use of spreadsheet and database packages
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload using own initiative and under significant time pressures
• Highly analytical and with the ability to speedily sift through large volumes of data to focus on critical information
• Ability to assess risk and problem solve
• Solution orientated and a readiness to challenge the status quo
• Demonstrable experience in being an effective communicator
• Focused on outcomes and deadlines
• Organised and methodical in thinking and application
• Demonstrable high standard of honesty and integrity
• Personable, builds and maintains constructive relationships based on mutual respect with colleagues, key external contacts and other stakeholders

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£103,102 to £117,560 a year per annum inclusive

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