Humber Health Partnership
We’re cutting edge:
And we’ve got a reputation:
We’ve won multiple national awards in the last 18 months, including HSJ Awards for patient safety, national BAME Awards, and RCN Awards. Our partnership is one of the most active Research, Development and Innovation organisations in the North of England with over 450 studies underway at any one time. Our Hull York Medical School, providing high quality, cutting‐edge medical training is rated in the top ten for student satisfaction. This makes our hospital an important teaching hospital for the development of new generations of doctors with a strong reputation in biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
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Further Information
More can be found about our Group on the individual websites for:
NLaG was rated as Requires Improvement by the Care Quality Commission on 02 December 2022.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was rated as Requires Improvement by the Care Quality Commission on 23 March 2023.
Living in Hull and East Yorkshire
Hull is a thriving university city with excellent shopping, leisure facilities and dining experiences. It is surrounded by attractive villages and countryside, and is in easy reach of the East Yorkshire coastline and the Yorkshire Wolds. The minster towns of Beverley and York are both within easy travelling distance. Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire offer a diverse and impressive range of housing choices, offering great value for money as house prices are generally cheaper than other parts of the UK.
The area provides a broad range of educational opportunities close to the University, including a number of Further and Higher Education Colleges. A number of schools and academies in Hull and the East Riding have been rated Outstanding by Ofsted, and the area also offers a good choice of independent schools with boarding and day school options.
There are an increasing number of direct inter-city trains to London and regular services to other major centres. The M62 motorway provides fast communications within Yorkshire and links up directly with the A1 and M1 North/South motor routes. Humberside Airport provides a reliable service to several European cities.
Living in North Lincolnshire
North Lincolnshire is a great place to live, work and unwind.
Blessed with a wealth of cultural opportunities including art galleries and the Baths Hall £14m entertainment centre, the jewel in the crown is Normanby Hall Country Park, with 300 acres of parkland and gardens.
Thornton Abbey, with its ornate fortified gatehouse, is among the finest surviving in Europe. Visitors from across the world come to Epworth to follow in the footsteps of the town’s famous sons, John and Charles Wesley, the founders of world Methodism, whilst the nearby market town of Brigg is famous for its markets and fairs.
North Lincolnshire’s landscape is a rich haven for wildlife. The area includes 28 Sites of Special Scientific Interest and a number of nature reserves. The Waters’ Edge Visitor Centre at Barton, one of the UK’s ‘greenest’ buildings, is set in an 86-acre parkland. Outdoor activities are plentiful, including walking and cycling with miles of quiet country lanes. A national cycle network and numerous cycle routes provide ideal opportunities for anyone that wants to enjoy the fresh air.
Good food is one of North Lincolnshire’s biggest attractions with a growing reputation for a wide range of restaurants and cooking styles. It is home to the area’s spectacularly successful restaurant, Winteringham Fields, a fine-dining establishment that has received nationwide attention.
Living in North East Lincolnshire
North East Lincolnshire has a rich diversity of historic towns, quaint villages, wildlife sanctuaries, rolling hills and sandy beaches. The surrounding countryside is known for its beauty, with the Lincolnshire Wolds being designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. English country pubs, historic churches and quaint villages are just a few miles from the main town of Grimsby.
North East Lincolnshire is situated in lovely countryside on the south coast of the Humber Estuary, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The area includes: Grimsby – the world-famous port and Europe’s Food Town, Cleethorpes – the popular Blue Flag seaside holiday resort and Wolds Villages – an area of outstanding natural beauty.
There is a wide choice of housing in the area from modern apartments with sea views and traditional townhouses through to rural properties in the peaceful countryside.
Our Partnership is committed to building a workforce which is valued and whose diversity reflects all communities from which it serves. Evidence shows that a diverse and inclusive workforce has a positive impact on not only staff but also on patient experience and outcomes.
If you have a disability, long term condition or are neurodiverse, we have a Staff Disability Network, which is run for staff by staff. It’s a safe place that offers support, advice and can help you navigate the workplace, so that you can come to work with the things in place you need to have a great day at work. We also offer a staff adult special educational needs services that can help with everything from dyslexia through to ADHD support in the workplace.
Health and Wellbeing
Our Partnership wants our staff to feel well supported in their roles, so we offer a wide variety of health and wellbeing activities, including support for both your mental and physical health. As well as direct support from your clinical manager, our UP! Health and Wellbeing Programme information is accessible via our Partnership intranet (Bridget). We have an Occupational Health Team, which you can self-refer to for support on our Partnership also offers specific mental and emotional wellbeing services including in-house staff support clinical psychologists, counsellors and personal coaches.
For staff who need extra support when dealing with tough situations we have a Trauma Risk Incident Management (TRiM) Service, which confidentially supports staff individually or in groups through structured peer support. This ensures that we support you early, and the service is designed to help you to understand your responses and find ways, if needed, to get support in a timely manner. We also have a pastoral/chaplaincy team who can visit staff in their place of work or meet with teams and individuals to support on the day to day challenges or when things get really difficult. They are available across both sites and also directly support our 24/7 staff support hotline.
Health and Safety
In addition to the Group’s overall responsibility for your health and safety you have a personal responsibility for your own health and safety. As such you are required to inform your line manager of any safety issues that you identify, that could affect you or others in the workplace. You must co-operate with management and colleagues at all times in achieving safer work processes and work places, particularly where it can impact on others.
As a Partnership employee you will be trained in the correct use of any equipment provided to improve safety and health within our Partnership. You are required to use the equipment when necessary and as instructed which will include checking the equipment is safe to use, prior to its use and must report any defects immediately to your line manager.
You are responsible for the implementation and adherence to Partnership safety policies and procedures for areas within your remit. You are required to ensure suitable and sufficient risk assessments are completed for all areas within your remit. The controls identified must be evaluated and implemented where necessary. You are required to review all risk assessments periodically and particularly when staffing and/or equipment changes, monitoring the effectiveness of any control measure implemented. You are to ensure suitable and sufficient equipment is provided to sustain the health and safety of staff, patients and visitors to areas within your remit.
Infection Control
In addition to the Partnership’s overall responsibilities under The Health and Social Care Act 2008 Code of Practice for healthcare, including primary and adult social care on the prevention and control of infections (revised December 2010) for your safety, you have a personal responsibility to ensure your work adheres to this Code in the delivery of safe patient care within the organisation. This code relates to ALL Partnership staff and contractors working within the organisation who are employed to ensure this level of care is provided.
As an employee you will be trained to ensure adherence and compliance to the various Infection Control policies within the Partnership.
Sustainability
To actively support our Partnership’s goals for sustainability by encouraging and adopting sustainable ideas and practices.
Safeguarding
Our Partnership has a duty and is committed to safeguarding all service users and provide additional measures for adults and children who are less able to protect themselves from harm or abuse. As an employee* you have an individual responsibility to contribute to the detection, reporting and prevention of abuse to safeguard those in our care (Section 11 Children Act, 2004, Human rights Act 1998, Equality Act 2010 Mental Capacity Act 2005 Care Act 2014) and are accountable to ensure that you know how to respond when you are concerned for the safety of a child, young person or adult at risk. Our Partnership will assist you in this process by providing training, guidance and advice. There are corporate safeguarding teams who can be contacted for advice, support and safeguarding supervision. All concerns must be reported as per Partnership Safeguarding Policies which are available on our Partnership Intranet. Every member of staff must undertake regular mandatory safeguarding training at a level relevant to the role.
Job Title: Group Chief Financial Officer
Accountable To: Group Chief Executive
Salary: VSM Circa £200,000 – £220,000
Location: Primary base Hull Royal Infirmary, with requirement to work across all group sites on a scheduled basis.
Key Relationships: Executive Team, Group Chair, Non-Executive Directors and Trust Governors, Managerial and Clinical Leadership Teams, Staff Representatives/Networks, Regulator bodies including NHSE and CQC and strategic partners.
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Group Chief Financial Officer is a full Executive (voting) Director of the NHS Humber Health Partnership (the Group) working in partnership with Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust and member of the unitary Group Boards, and is expected to work as part of an integrated team and take lead responsibility for strategic and corporate issues both within and external to their immediate portfolio, making a major contribution to the achievements of the Groups vision and strategic goals.
Role profile
The Group Chief Financial Officer is expected to be fully involved in a broad range of strategic, policy and tactical issues, including where necessary, taking leadership responsibility outside of areas of personal responsibility. The post holder will also be a Trustee of the Group’s charitable funds.
The Group Chief Financial Officer will be personally responsible for:
Key responsibilities
Corporate responsibilities
Financial Management
Financial service role
Financial compliance
Procurement
Estates, Facilities and Development
Management development & leadership
Culture, inclusion, equality and diversity
This job description may be reviewed from time to time in light of developments and may be amended in consultation with the post holder.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Education/Qualifications – assessed by certificates and interview
Knowledge and experience – assessed by interview and assessment process
Skills and attributes – assessed by interview and assessment process
Other – assessed by interview and assessment process
Anderson Quigley is acting as an advisor to the Trust, an executive search process is being carried out by Anderson Quigley in addition to the public advertisement.
The closing date for applications is Monday 12 August 2024.
Applications should be made by submitting a full and updated CV, with a covering letter of no more than two sides of A4.
Your supporting statement should give evidence of how you meet the requirements of the person specification relating to the role as well as outline your motivation to join the Group.
Along with your application, please include:
• Contact details for your referees (who will not be contacted without your permission)
• A contact email address and telephone number.
• A completed Fit and Proper Person Monitoring Form, which can be downloaded here.
All applications should be uploaded via this website. At the point of uploading your application, you will be asked to complete the equal opportunities monitoring form, with the option not to disclose should you wish.
Should you wish to discuss further details about the role in strict confidence, please contact Helene Usherwood at helene.usherwood@andersonquigley.com or +44 (0)7719 322 669, or Heather I’anson at heather.ianson@andersonquigley.com or +44 (0)7743 935 502.
If longlisted for a preliminary interview, with Anderson Quigley, these will take place via Teams between 26 August – 16 September.
If shortlisted for a final panel interview, these will take place on Monday 30 September, or Wednesday 02 October 2024 and will consist of stakeholder sessions and formal panel interviews (face to face).