Chair NHS Business Services Authority
- Body
- NHS Business Services Authority
- Appointing Department
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Sector
- Health and Social Care
- Location
- Newcastle
- Number of Vacancies
- 1
- Remuneration
- £63,000 per annum
- Time Requirements
- Two to three days per week.
Campaign Timeline
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Competition Launched
24/02/2021
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Closed for Applications
04/05/2021 at 12:00
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Panel Sift
19/05/2021
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Final Interview Date
18/06/2021
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Announcement
TBC
Assessment Panel
- Panel Member
- Steve Oldfield
- Panel Role
- Panel Chair
- Positions
- DHSC senior sponsor for NHSBSA Departmental Official
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- Panel Member
- Matthew Gould
- Positions
- CEO of NHSX Other Panel Member
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- Panel Member
- Dame Moira Gibb
- Positions
- Independent Member
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Vacancy Description
Ministers are seeking to appoint the Chair to the board of NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA).
Role and Responsibilities of the Chair
This is an opportunity to operate at national level and support the delivery of a wide range of critical business services to the NHS that have a tangible impact on people’s lives. The core responsibilities of the role are as follows:
Leadership
- Provide effective, visible and professional leadership to the Board in the pursuit of BSA’s strategic vision and underpinning business plans to support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan and the Department of Health and Social Care’s priorities.
- Chair Board and sub-committee meetings in accordance with BSA’s corporate governance framework, managing the interface between BSA’s Non-Executive Board members and the senior executive team and monitoring and improving the effectiveness of the Board and leading succession planning.
- Build and maintain an effective relationship with Ministers and senior Civil Servants on policy and government strategies to ensure the success of BSA and its business outcomes and set the tone for relationships with key partners, building strategic alliances across the health and social care system to improve efficiency and develop value add services ensuring the needs of service users, NHS staff, patients and the public are met;
- Operate impeccable personal standards and propriety in relation to accountability, governance, risk and financial management, ensuring the organisation has effective governance in place with robust internal controls and strong performance management systems;
- Ensure strategic commercial contracts entered into by BSA are robust, fit for purpose and will deliver the required outputs and benefits;
- Work collaboratively with the Department of Health and Social Care to provide ongoing assurance about BSA’s service delivery – in particular with regard to compliance with HM Treasury and Department of Health and Social Care requirements and ensure BSA exercises its functions in a way which is consistent with the duties of the Secretary of State.
Person Specification
Qualities required for the role of the Chair
The Department of Health and Social Care values and promotes diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community. The boards of public bodies should reflect the population they are there to serve. Boards also benefit from fresh perspectives, and we are always keen to encourage candidates with private sector experience to consider applying for our roles.
Essential Criteria
To be considered, applicants need to demonstrate they have the qualities, skills and experience to meet all the essential criteria for appointment. We are particularly interested in encouraging applications from candidates with significant, high-level and relevant commercial experience.
- Successful leadership track record within a large organisation, service or system with an ability to chair the board of a significant national body;
- A passion for exceptional customer service and an ability to identify opportunities to improve business outcomes;
- First-class communication, influencing and negotiating skills, with an ability to command respect at the highest levels and develop partnerships that deliver lasting improvement to services;
- Financially astute, with a sophisticated understanding of commercially orientated performance and financial and contract management.
Additional Information
NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is a Special Health Authority and Arms-Length Body of the Department of Health and Social Care. NHSBSA employs around 2500 people, with sites in Newcastle, Wakefield, Fleetwood, Sheffield, Bolton and Eastbourne. It manages £36 billion of NHS spend annually. Michael Brodie became Chief Executive Officer of NHSBSA in September 2019 and has developed an ambitious strategy for the business, expanding NHSBSAs focus across the wider health sector to ensure its strategy aligns with the NHS Long Term Plan and the future direction of travel.
NHSBSA delivers high volume, predominantly transactional services on behalf of the NHS and, since it was formed, has progressively taken on more operational functions. Since 2018, NHSBSA has supported work relating to EU Exit (National Supply Disruption Response and Overseas Health) and other services, for example digitisation of the Healthy Food Scheme, Child Migrant Scheme and Student Maintenance.
NHSBSA’s services are broadly split into 3 areas: Primary Care Services, Citizen Services and Workforce Services.
- Primary Care Services include processing around 1 billion prescription items per year for pharmacists who have dispensed prescriptions in England and managing payments to dentists for NHS work in England and Wales, processing around 44 million forms a year. Since 2015 NHSBSA has provided a scanning service, digitising medical records to release space for frontline patient care. It also provides a Provider Assurance service on behalf of NHS England
- Citizen services include managing NHS student and social work bursaries in England, help with health costs including administering medical exemption certificates, maternity exemption certificates, prescription pre-payment certificates and the low-income scheme. NHSBSA is responsible for administering European Health Insurance Cards and in 2018 took over the full Overseas Health Service from the Department of Work and Pensions
- Workforce Services – NHSBSA administers the NHS Pension scheme for 2.6 million members and in April 2018 it also took responsibility of the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and NHS Jobs – the national portal for advertising NHS job vacancies, meaning that it provides the full hire to retire journey for NHS Employees. NHSBSA also provides HR Shared Services to its client base. Workforce planning is a key area of NHSBSAs strategy with a number of system developments currently ongoing including development of NHS Jobs (the main job advertisement and recruitment portal for NHS organisations), a smartphone app for NHS Employees called ‘NHSLife’ and the ‘My NHS Pension’ self-service portal which provides users quick and easy access to their pension information and the facility to calculate what their pension will be depending on what age they retire.
Over the last two years NHSBSA has developed its data analytics and digital capability to save money for taxpayers and improve how patients can use its services through apps and other on-line services. NHSBSA has recently hosted visits by Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care who described it as ‘a brilliant forward-thinking body, vital to improving the NHS’ and Matthew Gould, CEO of NHSX who was ‘hugely impressed’ with NHSBSA’s digital capability.
Between 2013 and March 2019 NHSBSA ran the Pacific Programme, using insight from its data and specialist expertise to release £1bn for reinvestment into the NHS. Identifying health system-wide savings is now embedded in the culture of NHSBSA.
NHSBSA’s purpose is to be a catalyst for better health and to use its data and insight to add value to the wider health system. NHSBSA’s strategy has been developed to focus more on people and collaboration with key partners. Its strategic ambitions include:
- Population Health: using population data and joining this with other sources using data analytics to improve healthcare, prevention and signposting
- Workforce: supporting national and local workforce planning through analytics
- Provider assurance: expanding existing provider assurance services to NHS England
- At Scale Payments: using NHSBSA’s infrastructure to deliver other high-volume transactional services on behalf of the NHS
- Fraud, error and waste: using predictive analytics to stop fraudulent claims before payment
- Data and analytics: partnering with AI specialists to offer predictive analytics services to the NHS
Dates of scheduled future Board Meetings:
- 11 March 2021
- 22 April 2021
- 17 June 2021
- 8 July 2021
- 9 September 2021
- 13 & 14 October 2021
- 2 December 2021
Location
Meetings will take place in Newcastle or online.
Tenure of office
Ministers determine that the length of the appointment will be up to 3 years.