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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

• Act as Trust expert technical lead on SLR and PLICS, ensuring that appropriate systems are in place for the Trust to comply with its requirements.
• Lead on the organisational wide education and dissemination of SLR and PLC, leading on the presentation of seminars and updates and leading working groups to maximize the Potential benefits of the new regime.
• Lead the development and maintenance of aspects of the Trust’s costing strategy, advising in particular on local pricing via alternative costing and improvements in the quality of costing data and activity capture.
• Guide & advise the Directorate Finance teams and clinical staff, in the production of costs and prices for services.
• Ensure that the Trust successfully meets the national agenda for the costing of services, leading any rebasing reviews accordingly and ensuring that annual national cost collection is produced to the requisite national standards.
• Develop Patient Level Costing systems to support an understanding of:

• Patient level costs at all levels of the organisation to drive improvements in efficiency and quality in service delivery.
• The development of prices for NHS work not covered by the national tariff and for non-NHS work.
• Produce benchmarking comparisons on a basis which facilities the identification of options for efficiency/VFM gains.

• Develop the external image of costing and benchmarking, providing education and training to colleagues inside and outside the Finance Department in order to develop an understanding of their benefits and to encourage participation in their development.

• Working with the Head of Income, Contracting and Costing to lead the development of systems and processes to support where required.

• Represent the Trust externally on any benchmarking and costing and Service Line Reporting initiatives.

• Ensure that relevant recommendations of both internal and external auditors are Implemented.
• Oversee the production of monthly SLR reporting. Responsible for the development of SLR systems to ensure Trust management teams understand their costs in relation to income.

• Ongoing reviews of local costs comparing with the national averages and analysis of the variances. Identifying areas where our costs significantly vary from the National average and determining drivers.

• Ensure that divisional teams and The Trust Board are provided with regular service line management reports and effectively communicate with Senior Managers and Clinicians the components within service line reports.

• Oversee the preparation of the Trusts annual National Cost Collection, ensuring it accurately reflects the activity and costs of relevant services within the Trust.

• Support the divisions in the business cases and contribute towards service developments.

General duties

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  Day to day line management of the SLR/PLIC’s team including recruitment, training and appraisals.

• To oversee the effective recruitment, training and development of staff within the department, ensuring that each member of staff has regular appraisals, a personal development plan and adequate support.

• To ensure that financial transactions are undertaken in accordance with Standing Financial Instructions and Standing Orders. The postholder is responsible for informing the Director of Finance or Deputy of any breach of SFI's or SO's and reporting incidences of fraud.

• To ensure all sensitive information is distributed in line with Information Governance policies and procedures.

• To undertake any other duties as reasonably requested.