Proactive Counter Fraud Lead

The NHSCFA is the national body responsible for all matters relating to the prevention, detection and investigation of economic crime across the NHS. Further information is available on our website.

Our team are embarking on a piece of work to monitor data to identify and respond to patterns indicative of potential fraud. This will support our current work that reduces the likelihood of fraud occurring. We will bring in data science capabilities to be deployed in counter fraud activity and work closely with partners across health and government to further maximise the preventative impact of proactive counter fraud analysis. We will combine this with our range of counter fraud and domain expertise to maximise our impact using your knowledge, experience, and passion for your chosen field.

The post holder will lead a team of proactive fraud investigators within the organisation to work alongside the data teams to identify areas of potentially fraudulent activity or areas vulnerable to fraud. As the lead you will explore all tactical options within the fraud investigation model to deal with the identified problem areas in detecting, disrupting, preventing and pursing offenders.

Potential applicants can contact James Boughen at [email protected] for an informal chat if you have any questions regarding the role.

Interviews will be held w/c 5th/12th August 2024.

As the lead you will undertake collaborative engagements with stakeholder groups, you will facilitate solutions to progress, meet milestones and enable the sector to combat fraud providing project management oversight and accountability, whilst adhering to tight deadlines and reporting, governance processes.

A key focus of the team’s work will be prevention by finding patterns in data which are indicators of fraud.

There will be the additional expectation of developing your own skillsets for and creating and maintaining high quality outputs, whilst managing competing deadlines.

The postholder will provide leadership and oversight to the counter fraud activities falling within the remit of NHSCFA and project Athena. All work will be carried out to a standard required by the appropriate Courts, Crown Prosecution Service, relevant legislation and best practice.

We have offices based in Coventry, Newcastle and London and offer flexible, hybrid, office and home-based working. In addition to the advertised salary working in the London area will attract High-Cost Area Supplement where appropriate. The NHSCFA values and respects the diversity of its employees and aims to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including an invitation to the first stage of the selection process and consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability. If you are applying to undertake this role on a secondment basis you should have agreement to being released from your current role in principle, prior to submitting an application form. When you apply for this role, you will be redirected to our recruitment system TRAC.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the advertised closing date should we receive a significant number of applications.

The NHSCFA does not hold a sponsor licence in respect of skilled worker visas and so is unable to employ candidates requiring sponsorship.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: James Boughen Job title: Project Athena Response Manager Email address: [email protected]