NHS England
Senior Lead, Finance and Planning Business Partnering
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The Secondary Care, Primary Care, Community Services, Vaccinations and Screening Finance and Planning Business Partnering Team in the NHS England Finance and Planning Directorate is Now Recruiting for a Senior Finance Lead
This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the heart of work to support the NHS.
- Work closely with government to agree NHS funding
- Ensure the NHS lives within its annual budget
- Decide how to distribute the funding to the different NHS services and parts of England
- Support innovative programmes that improve the care and experience of NHS patients or people using NHS services
- Set out the financial and performance priorities the NHS should be delivering each year
- Report how much the NHS has spent on providing services each year
- Explore how the NHS can make the best use of its money
- Look at how spend on building or equipment can improve the care and experience of people using NHS services
- Consider how nationally we use these resources to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce inequality, improve health and support the NHS
- Support internal decision-making and prioritisation
As a Senior Finance Lead, you will work as the bridge between NHS England’s directorates and the specialist finance teams to produce high-quality financial reporting and advice that drives value for money and improves patient care.
The team offers high profile, fast-paced projects. This requires adaptability, rigor and innovation and provides exciting development opportunities for those developing their careers in the NHS, health or the public sector.
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Types of Skills and Experience We Are Looking For
Even if you feel you only meet some of the criteria, we encourage you to apply.
As a Senior Finance Lead you will play a pivotal role in:
- Building strong relationships with senior leaders across the organisation
- Building and leading a diverse, inclusive and high-performing team
- Using your own and your team’s financial and planning expertise and knowledge to support delivery of the directorate and programmes’ objectives
You will be expected to work in a matrix fashion across the SPCVS team, with specific duties and responsibilities reflecting team priorities. You should expect to have a significant part of your role focusing on supporting the Chief Operating Officer Directorate (with sub-teams including Corporate Estates, Legal, Governance & Inquiries and People & Organisational Development), the Medical Directorate and Performance & Delivery Directorate. So will need to have or build a knowledge of the operations and policy objectives of these areas, with a focus on those that you will directly support.
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
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Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and 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 our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Neil Lester
Job Title: Head of F&P Business Partnering Finance
Email Address: neillester@nhs.net
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