Innovating and People. Excellence. Partnership. Vision for NHS Wales Finance. developing our. adding value. driving. working in. Finance Adding.

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1 Vision for NHS Wales Finance developing our Innovating and People Finance Adding adding value People working in Value driving Innovating and adding value Partnership Partnership Excellence Excellence

2 NHS Wales Finance Objectives Developing our people Dof Sponsor: Russell Favager Innovating and Adding Value Dof Sponsor: Alan Brace Great place to work Creating the head space Creating the right environment for change values and behaviours Talent pipeline for all finance roles Training and development programme Working in Partnership Dof Sponsor: Rebecca Richards Customer focus - putting the patient first Understanding the business and influencing the agenda Developing effective partnerships across the wider public and private sectors Ensuring all staff who work with finance have the right skills to do so Finance Adding Value Sponsor: Martin Sollis Planning and horizon scanning Research and innovation Benchmarking and sharing best practice Value and evidence based decision making Evaluating and balancing risk Driving Excellence Dof sponsor: Steve Webster Excellence in core financials doing the basics brilliantly Streamlined processes and systems Once for Wales Embracing technology and informatics Valuable business partner

3 NHS Wales Finance Deliverables and Developing our People Great place to work Creating head space Values and behaviours for change Talent pipeline Training and Development Programme Directors of Finance Declaration Sept 2015 DoF Sponsors and Staff Champions: individuals from across the function volunteering to lead or champion different parts of Finance Adding Value FSD training and development programme: offer opportunities to all groups of staff Mentoring: offer all staff the opportunity to have a mentor from within the finance community Coaching: signpost formal coaching and mentoring opportunities provided by partners Student Network and Annual Conference: supporting prospective/current students and newly qualified staff Secondments & shadowing: developing a framework within NHS Wales and with external partners Finance Staff Census and Survey: ongoing collection of key information about finance Supporting CPD: support organisational accreditation with accounting bodies. Work in partnership to signpost and develop CPD activities. Financial Management Graduate Training: relaunch the graduate finance training scheme From Sept 2015 Sept 2015 Sept 2015 Sept 2015 Nov 2015 Nov 2015 Annual March 2016 Sept 2016

4 NHS Wales Finance Deliverables and Innovating and Adding Value Planning and horizon scanning Research and innovation Benchmarking and sharing best practice Value and evidence based decision making Evaluating and balancing risk Finance Academy Awards: sharing and recognising good practice from within our own finance community Finance Academy Event: the theme for the next conference is Innovation and Excellence Research and innovation grants: creating small grant fund within Finance Academy and signposting external sources of funding Embedding research and best practice skills for all staff: for example, specific objective as part of PADR, FSD training programme Research development opportunities with Welsh and UK Universities: including internships, research projects, research and benchmarking skills training Scope opportunities to work with local, national and international research and innovation organisations: including 1000 Lives Plus, ABi, FFF, Nuffield, Harvard Specific priorities for research, best practice and benchmarking: to be developed by DoF sponsor and DoF sub groups June 2015 Feb 2016 Feb 2016 Feb 2016 Feb 2016 Sept 2016 Sept 2016

5 NHS Wales Finance Deliverables and Working in Partnership Customer focus and putting patient first Understanding business and influencing agenda Effective public and private sector partnerships Right skills for staff who work with finance Finance Academy Structure: clarity for staff and partners about structure and access to Finance Adding Value activities Communication Strategy: develop effective communication and engagement with all staff, customers and partners. Expand communication. tools and enhance communication role of FSD leads Welsh Government, Wales Audit Office and other public bodies: develop opportunities for staff to better understand the wider public sector; for example joint training, secondments Finance for Non Finance Staff: develop a suite of resources and tools to up-skill staff who use finance systems and who make decisions about finance; e.g. Training for Independent Members, and support e-learning packages Developing closer links with clinicians and service managers: gather information about our service from customers through common core survey questions; develop action plan to engage with clinician sponsor Explore opportunities to further develop partnerships with other non-clinical professions within NHS: for example: informatics, planning, workforce, HR Continue to develop partnerships to develop Finance Adding Value: for example accounting bodies, HFMA, universities, private sector Sept 2015 Oct 2015 Nov 2015 Sept 2016 Mar 2016 April 2016 Ongoing

6 NHS Wales Finance Deliverables and Driving Excellence Excellence in core financials Streamlined processes and systems Embracing technology/ informatics Valuable business partner Technical webinars and up training: to be developed by technical groups and delivered through FSD programme; explore opportunities to link with WAO and external partners Dec 2015 Baseline /maturity matrix: use a structured tool to identify where we are in terms of technical excellence and agree where we want to be, so we can develop a prioritised work programme Improvement skills: signpost and facilitate access to Improving Quality Together, and scope opportunities to work with partners to develop skills of finance staff March 2016 March 2016 Streamlining processes: DoF sponsor and DoF sub groups to identify 2-3 key processes as priority pilots Finance Forums: use FSD website, and other technology enabled tools, as mechanisms for sharing and discussing topics of common interest across Wales Business Partners: support pilots being developed by individual finance teams, and in collaboration with other organisations and across multi disciplines Performance, planning and informatics: scope opportunities to work with other professions to develop common tools and develop wider skills Developing core finance skills: up core competencies matrix, using More Than a Number and national core skills frameworks for finance; work with accounting bodies and HFMA to understand how current training syllabus and CPD meets core skills; inform ongoing FSD programme June 2016 June 2016 June 2016 Sept 2016 Sept 2016