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317 Financial Management - Corporate
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
4 OR 5 DAYS PER WEEK (30 HOURS/37.5HOURS)
Job ref
317-2024-18-031
Employer
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Regent Point
Town
317 Regent Point
Salary
£25,147 - £27,596 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/05/2024 23:59
Interview date
07/06/2024

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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Assistant Accountant

Band 4

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job overview

There is a new opportunity for a conscientious and motivated individual within the Financial Management team.  The focus will be in the provision of financial information and analysis to Budget Holders and Senior Finance staff.

We have recently implemented a new flexible working policy to encourage hybrid working and allow you some flexibility over when you work your contracted hours. 

Please ensure you have given examples of where you have met the essential criteria within the additional information section.

•   Interview Date Friday, 07 June 2024
•   4 or 5 days per week (30 hours/37.5hours)
•   You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy

 

 

Main duties of the job

  • Good planning and organisational skills are essential:
    o    Required to plan own workload in line with strict departmental timetables for weekly, monthly and annual accounts
  • Advanced Keyboard skills are required, with speed and accuracy
  • Contributes to the production and monitoring of detailed Directorate and/or Departmental pay and non-pay expenditure and non-patient care income budgets.   
  • Expected to manage own workload and change priorities as necessary to achieve key tasks, although advice available if required as guided by the Trust’s Corporate Governance policies and procedures. Work is managed rather than supervised. 
  • Utilises a range of financial and other reporting software products to provide Directorate Management with timely and accurate financial and supporting information. Examples include: 
    o    Design, development and maintenance of complex spreadsheets 
    o    Utilising database software for large volumes of data 
    o    Utilising supplementary systems such as Payroll Data Query                     (PDQ) 
    o    Working knowledge of other reporting packages 

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To ensure that financial controls are maintained within Corporate Governance guidelines. 
  • To assist the Directorate Accountant with the production of the monthly financial statement. 
  • Under the direction of senior staff to have reporting responsibility for specific Directorates or Departments.
  • Production of budgets for specific areas of reporting responsibility.
  • Responding to queries from Directorate and Departmental Managers.
  • To provide supervisory support to Band 3 and Band 2 colleagues.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

 

Person specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential criteria
  • • Accounting Technician status or be progressing towards a CCAB accountancy qualification or NVQ Level 4 in a numerate subject or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • • Microsoft Office Qualification or equivalent experience

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • • A good level of education in a numerate subject
  • • A detailed understanding of accounting procedures
Desirable criteria
  • • Previous NHS Finance experience
  • • Experience in a Finance Department
  • • Knowledge of NHS and non-NHS legislation and how it effects own area of work
  • • Knowledge of Management Accounting procedures and techniques including variance analysis
  • • A good working knowledge of financial and non-financial computer systems

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • • Able to work autonomously to manage own workload and change priorities as necessary to achieve key tasks, although with advice available if required
  • • Good communication, planning and organisational skills are essential
  • • Ability to be able to work independently or part of a team, to ensure strict deadlines are adhered to
  • • Able to modify, structure, maintain and present financial data and information

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardRIDI Awards Finalist 2021Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall Gold 2022Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sam Moat
Job title
Directorate Accountant
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0191 2137048
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