Chair of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority

11 months ago

£14450 per annum

Role description

Ministers are seeking to appoint a new Chair of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA).

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 new to public appointments to consider applying for our roles.

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 NHS Counter Fraud Authority (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 NHS Counter Fraud Authority (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 £13.254 million in 2022/23. The NHSCFA produces an annual Strategic Intelligence Assessment (SIA). The SIA 2022 estimates the NHS in England is vulnerable to £1.198 billion worth of fraud each year.

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 2021/22 on 14 July 2022.

The current NHSCFA strategy covers the period of 2020-2023 and will soon publish a new strategy, setting out the organisations’ priorities, for the next 3 years.

NHSCFA website: https://cfa.nhs.uk/

NHSCFA corporate publications: https://cfa.nhs.uk/about-nhscfa/corporate-publications

NHSCFA website (NHSCFA Six principles of Good Practice and Value and Behaviours Framework): https://cfa.nhs.uk/about-nhscfa/working-at-nhscfa/values-and-behaviour-framework

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

Board composition

The location of main office is:Government Hub 10 South ColonnadeCanary WharfLondonE14 5EA

Board meetings take place every two months in London, Coventry or Newcastle & Virtual

NHSCFA Board of Directors | About the NHSCFA | NHS Counter Fraud Authority

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

To be considered, you must be able to demonstrate that you have the qualities, skills and experience to meet all the essential criteria for appointment:• Ability to chair and lead the development of a high-performing, national organisation in a complex and fast-moving environment • A portfolio of corporate governance and organisational skills, including strategic planning, financial and risk management, managing organisational change and continuing to build a positive organisational culture and values• Strong interpersonal skills and a skilled communicator • Ability to work collaboratively across organisational boundaries to achieve shared goals