Job summary
- Main area
- Contracting
- Grade
- Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 318-25-T0520
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Riverside House
- Town
- Cheltenham
- Salary
- £91,342 - £105,337 (pro rata if part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/08/2025
Employer heading
Associate Director of Income & Contracting, Band 8d
Band 8d
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
Job overview
The Associate Director of Income & Contracting is a member of the finance directorate senior leadership team reporting directly to the Director of Operational Finance. The post holder will lead on all healthcare commissioned contract discussions, and associated income monitoring, with internal and external stakeholders.
The role leads on the contract management process for the Trust, provider to provider and third sector contracts, to ensure delivery of services that are high quality, better value for money and to achieve the Trust objectives.
As a Senior Leader in this team, you will influence strategic decisions making within the Trust working with clinical and non clinical colleagues to secure income to support us in delivering high quality care to our local population.
The proposed interview date is: 14th August
Main duties of the job
To succeed in this role you will:
- Be an experienced professional with detailed knowledge and experience of the NHS contracting regime.
- Have a strong understanding of the impact of income flows on the financial position of the Trust.
- Have strong inter personal and negotiations skills to allow you to work with colleagues across the Trust, our own ICS and beyond in order to seek solutions to support delivery of contractual requirements including performance, quality and finance.
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Have experience of leading and developing teams
- Be financially and politically aware, able to communicate well with your peers and team members and have resilience to adapt quickly to changing priorities and demands from internal and external stakeholders
Working for our organisation
We are a compassionate and established team and this is an excellent opportunity to join our organisation to help support us through a time of change in the NHS.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key responsibilities:
- To lead and improve the reporting of patient treatment income and associated activity of circa £800m per annum. To include control, monitoring and reconciliation of the Trust’s Income and Income budget allocations with the finance team.
- To ensure that Service Level Agreement (SLA) income is received, to optimise income due under the National Tariff Payment System regime and to identify new opportunities for charging, including activity not being recorded, in accordance with rules.
- To work closely with the Business Intelligence, and Clinical Coding team, to ensure timely and accurate data submissions to support commissioning, service agreements, performance and capacity planning requirements amongst others.
- To support the commissioning of healthcare related services through the NHS Provider Selection Regime (PSR).
- To make the best use of clinical, financial and operational performance data to identify performance risks and areas for action prior to contract default and the implementation of deduction mechanisms for failure.
- To work closely with clinical and non-clinical colleagues to disseminate commissioning requirements and to explain the potential impact on the provision of services and to ensure the co-ordination of responses to meet issues raised.
Please see the job description for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Educated to master's degree level or equivalent experience
- In depth knowledge of contracting regime
- Understanding of PBR complexities and health informatics
- Senior manager experience
- Evidence of negotiating contracts
- Ability to work in a team and to lead
- Evidence of independent working / proactivity
- Evidence of working across teams with clinical and non clinical colleagues
Desirable criteria
- Translatable professional qualification
- Understanding of acute sector operational flows
- Experience of the NHS planning cycle
- Understanding and application of the PSR process
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Steve Perkins
- Job title
- Director of Operational Finance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 2222
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