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Job overview

The Region’s only Finance team dedicated to Clinical Research in the NHS is recruiting. 

This is a rare and exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible professional to join our team as a Directorate Accountant following the progression of the previous postholder.

Newcastle Hospitals has a strong reputation worldwide for leading groundbreaking research in Heathcare with a vast portfolio of studies, we are in the top three commercial research study sites in the country. We manage circa £30 million of Clinical Research funding per annum across a complete spectrum of clinical specialties including research into the use of AI and cell therapy.

We are unique in the country having large infrastructure grants for the Biomedical Research Centre, Clinical Research Facility, Experimental Cancer Medicines Centre, hosting the Local Clinical Research Network, as well as a having significant portfolio of NIHR funded research programmes.

The Directorate Accountant will lead in the day-to-day management of the Research Finance Team, monthly reporting, and ensuring contractual requirements for all research agreements are met. This is a pivotal role in the organisation to support research with the postholder working closely with colleagues, both in finance and those working in research across the region.

Main duties of the job

The successful postholder will support the Research Finance Manager in all aspects of Research Finance:

• Lead and manage a team of 7 finance staff
• Month end and year end reporting
• Preparation of forecasts, budgets, and annual returns
• Developing strong relationships with budget holders, providing advice and support on all finance aspects including identification of any risk
• Liaison with external bodies
• Local Clinical Research Network / Regional Research Delivery Network reporting
• Quarterly and annual reporting on infrastructure grants and research grants
• Process improvement
• Support to strategic work

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.