Senior Local Counter Fraud Specialist

ASW Assurance is a leading not for profit NHS consortium, delivering internal audit, counter fraud and consultancy services to healthcare organisations including acute, mental health and foundation trusts, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and social enterprises.

We do not simply deliver an internal audit and counter fraud service; we are dedicated to delivering quality and safe patient care, providing a cost-effective service with the benefit of a locally highly skilled, flexible and responsive workforce.

As the main counter fraud service provider to the NHS in the South West, ASW Assurance provides an excellent, value added service, which meets and exceeds the delivery of both national and local NHS counter fraud requirements.

ASW Assurance work is focused to ensure that fraud risks that may prevent the achievement of NHS organisations strategic objectives are kept to a minimum. The counter fraud work is pivotal in ensuring that the organisation’s specific fraud risks are identified and managed to prevent financial loss and protect the organisation’s reputation. We also deliver specialised security management consultancy services, and can provide a comprehensive, joined up, resilient anti-crime service.

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More detail about the role

As part of the NHS Contract organisations are required to have counter fraud arrangements in place to provide added value through the use of counter fraud specialists, the purpose of this role is primarily to manage, control and deliver highly complex counter fraud investigations and value-added proactive work to a number of organisations simultaneously.

The Senior Local Counter Fraud Specialist (LCFS) focus is to:

• Implement and encourage an anti-fraud culture throughout organisations.
• Provide operational leadership in delivering the counter fraud message to multiple organisations.
• Take positive action against fraud, including sanctions against perpetrators and recovery of any monies defrauded.
• Meet and exceed the NHSCFA requirements.
• Achieve successful outcomes from both criminal and civil proceedings.

Expectations of the post holder fall into distinct categories.

• Work with multiple organisations to ensure and assist in the development of appropriate governance frameworks in place to reduce the risk of fraud at those organisations to an absolute minimum; ensure that those frameworks provide significant opportunity to detect and be able to prosecute fraud that occurs. The post holder is also required to respond to requests for information, expert advice and guidance from senior managers and regulators of multiple organisations.
• Undertake proactive work including (but not limited to) educating staff at multiple organisations about fraud so that they are able to identify fraud and know how to respond correctly; undertake nationally directed proactive exercises and develop and deliver local risk based proactive exercises.
• Undertake criminal investigations complying with the requirements of criminal investigation legislation (including but not exclusively, the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, the Fraud Act 2006, Theft Act 1968, Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000). These investigations may be highly complex in nature and may involve the preparation of prosecution files for the Crown Prosecution Service.
  
  Where appropriate, the post holder will liaise with multiple HR departments, regulators and other organisations where the case includes disciplinary and/or professional conduct matters.
• Act as lead specialist for counter fraud services on a portfolio of clients covering the planning, delivery and client liaison, including strategic and operational liaison with the Director of Finance.
• Line manage Band 6 Local Counter Fraud Specialist and Trainee Local Counter Fraud Specialist Band 6 Annex U or be responsible for specialist areas of counter fraud work e.g. risk management, consortium wide local proactive work and complex investigations.

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