Senior Manager - Finance and Planning Business Partnering | NHS England

The People & CNO Business Partner Team in the NHS England Finance and Planning Directorate is now recruiting for Senior Manager.

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
• 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

As a Senior Manager, you will be a key member of the strategy and assurance team within the People & CNO Business Partnering team. You will work with a number of key stakeholders including budget holders, programme teams and policy leads. Some of the exciting work that you will be involved with includes:

• Supporting the education funding reform programme
• Maintaining and reporting unit costs for education and training
• Support the strategic policy decisions

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.

Below are the types of skills and experience that we are looking for.Even if you feel you only meet some of the criteria, we encourage you to apply.

• The clinical and operational priorities, risks and opportunities associated with workforce and training for the NHS;
• The operational and financial relationships between DHSC, NHS England and individual provider and commissioners in the NHS
• Turning proposals for clinical or operational change into detailed costings and challenging these for efficiency and value-for-money gains
• Financial flows, allocations, contracts and pricing and financial incentives in the NHS
• Working with programmes across NHSE and wider stakeholders to develop new policy – identifying financial risks, and opportunities and advising senior finance and programme colleagues on how best to enact financial process and funding to ensure value for money.

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.

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 announcedthat 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.

Interested in applying and want to find out more about our team and the work we do?

Please email Daniel Baxter, Head of Finance on daniel.baxter1@nhs.net if you would like to discuss

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Secondments

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

This advert closes on Thursday 4 Jun 2026