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NHS Counter Fraud Authority - interim Chair
Contents
Summary
- Organisation
- NHS Counter Fraud Authority
- Sponsor department
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Location
- Sectors
- Health and Social Care
- Skills
- Communication
- Number of vacancies
- 1
- Time commitment
- 3 day(s) per month
- Remuneration
- £14,450 per annum
- Length of term
- 3 years
- Application deadline
- Midday on 1 January 2025
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Timeline for this appointment
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Application deadline
Midday on 1 January 2025
Timeline dates are only an estimate and can change
About the appointment
Appointment description
The Chair will lead the Board of Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) and Executive Directors (EDs). The Chair will hold the Chief Executive, Finance Director and Performance & Improvement Director to account, and will share corporate responsibility for the decisions of the NHSCFA Board and the performance of the organisation. Along with the NEDs, the Chair will contribute to the development of strategy, stakeholder engagement and annual objectives. The Chair will ensure sound governance, including robust and effective systems of financial control and risk management, are in place.
You will build, maintain and enhance NHSCFA’s reputation as an open and independent body that places a high priority upon preventing and detecting fraud and recovering losses where they occur. This will ensure public funds essential to delivering effective patient care, are directed to where they are needed most.
You will play a key role in ensuring that the organisation is focused upon providing excellent services and good value for money and enabling the NHSCFA to contribute to the wider aims of the NHS. You will provide appropriate challenge, scrutiny and support at Board level, ensuring the NHSCFA is doing all it can to reduce fraud in the NHS and is meeting its obligations related to the Government Functional Standard GovS 013: Counter Fraud.
The role will include a particular focus on:
- Overseeing strategic direction setting in cooperation and accordance with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) Counter Fraud Strategy, including working collaboratively with other NHS bodies, Public Sector Fraud Authority, Ministers, senior Government officials, and representatives of employer and employee interests
- Monitoring developments in the NHS, bring insights on the issues facing the NHS to NHSCFA discussions and ensuring the Board has access to these issues
- Supporting and challenging the executive team
- Performance monitoring and evaluating the NHSCFA functions and compliance with Government Functional Standard GovS 013: Counter Fraud.
- Ensuring effective induction of the NEDs and the development of the Board as a whole
- Ensuring propriety, probity and value for money
- Advising the DHSC on the performance of NEDs
- Ensuring comprehensive and appropriate cooperation with DHSC on all matters
- Working with the Chief Executive Officer in accountability meetings with Ministers and officials
Organisation description
The NHSCFA is a Special Health Authority, created under section 28 of the National Health Service Act 2006 and established on 1 November 2017, under The NHSCFA (Establishment, Constitution, and Staff and Other Transfer Provisions) Order 2017. It carries out the Secretary of State’s counter fraud functions in respect of the health service in England.
With a resource of around 163 full time staff, NHSCFA received an indicative non-ringfenced revenue budget allocation of £13.493 million in 2023/24. The NHSCFA produces an annual Strategic Intelligence Assessment (SIA). The SIA 2023 estimates the NHS in England is vulnerable to £1.264 billion worth of fraud.
The NHSCFA Board is responsible for providing strategic leadership for the organisation and ensuring that the ALB is able to account to Parliament and the public on how it delivers its functions. The NHSCFA published its Annual Report and Accounts 2022/23 on 13 July 2023.
The current NHSCFA strategy covers the period of 2023-2026, setting out the organisations’ priorities, for the 3 year strategic period.
- NHSCFA website: https://cfa.nhs.uk/
- NHSCFA corporate publications: https://cfa.nhs.uk/about-nhscfa/corporate-publications
- NHSCFA website (NHSCFA Four principles of Good Practice and Value and Behaviours Framework): Values and behaviour framework | Working for the NHSCFA | NHS Counter Fraud Authority
- GOV.UK (Government Partnerships with Arms-Length Bodies Code of Good Practice): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/partnerships-with-arms-length-bodies-code-of-good-practice
Regulation of appointment
This post is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. For more information, please refer to the Commissioner’s website
Person specification
Essential criteria
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Application and selection process
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Additional information for candidates
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Holders of public office are expected to adhere and uphold the Seven Principles of Public Life and the Code of Conduct for Board Members of Public Bodies. Before you apply you should consider carefully:
- any outside interests that you may have, such as shares you may hold in a company providing services to government;
- any possible reputational issues arising from your past actions or or public statements that you have made;
- and/or - any political roles you hold or political campaigns you have supported;
You will need to answer relevant questions in relation to these points when making an application. Many conflicts of interest can be satisfactorily resolved and declaring a potential conflict does not prevent you from being interviewed. If you are shortlisted for an interview, the panel will discuss any potential conflicts with you during that interview, including any proposals you may have to mitigate them and record that in their advice to ministers. Alongside your own declaration, we will conduct appropriate checks, as part of which we will consider anything in the public domain related to your conduct or professional capacity. This may include searches of previous public statements and social media, blogs or any other publicly available information. The successful candidate(s) may be required to give up any conflicting interests and their other business and financial interests may be published in line with organisational policies.
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You will not become a member of the Civil Service. You will not be subject to the provisions of employment law.
Appointments are for the term set out in this advert, with the possibility of re-appointment for a further term, at the discretion of Ministers. Any re-appointment is subject to satisfactory annual appraisals of performance during the first term in the post. If re-appointed, the total time served in post will not exceed more than two terms or serve in any one post for more than ten years
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This is an office holder appointment and does not attract any benefits under any Civil Service Pension Scheme. You will not be eligible for redundancy pay as you are not an employee. No other arrangements have been made for compensation upon termination because an office holder who is appointed for a limited duration would have no expectation of serving beyond that period.
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