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Job summary

Main area
Financial Management
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
319-6479308JN
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Cobalt Business Park
Town
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/08/2024 23:59

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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Business Unit Accountant

NHS AfC: Band 7

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is looking to strengthen the finance service delivered to our subsidiary company, Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management Ltd.

We are looking for an accountant with the drive and commercial acumen  to consistently deliver high quality analysis, insight and reporting to the business. This key role will combine hands-on financial management with a finance business partnering approach in contributing to the success of the company.

We are looking to appoint someone that can demonstrate a track record in data analysis, that is comfortable in a commercial environment and that enjoys working closely with non-finance colleagues to deliver great business outcomes.  It is likely that the successful candidate will hold an accounting qualification or be studying towards one. They will have a financial management background and business partnering experience. 

Main duties of the job

The Business Unit Accountant's key responsibilities centre on the accounting, reporting and analysis that underpins the company's financial performance management and success. They will form strong partnerships with decision makers to deliver robust financial advice that facilitates the right outcomes in meeting business goals. 

The role carries responsibility for management accounting duties for the company including:

  • Taking ownership and leading on all aspects of monthly accounts and reports, forming a clear understanding of key factors contributing to financial performance and position.
  • Promoting sound commercial practice within the company to support leaders with their financial responsibilities in delivering an efficient and effective service.
  • Closely supporting colleagues with budget management, bringing effective challenge and investigation into performance variances.
  • Leading on annual budget setting and regular forecasting, appropriately and clearly capturing the resource required to deliver on operational plans for across a financial year.

In addition, the role will support the commercial development of our services and proposition including cost and price modelling, investment appraisal and supplier analysis.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

                                          

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Supporting the Chief Finance Officer in providing a professional, high quality commercial and financial management service to the Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management business.
  • Leading on the operations of the financial management team.
  • Providing financial and business planning advice and insights across the company and to the Trust.
  • Ensuring financial controls are maintained in line with all corporate governance requirements and NHS guidance.
  • Delivering statutory accounts and returns that are accurate and meet agreed timescales and legal requirements, adding layers of analysis and insight as appropriate.
  • Role modelling compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the Trust. This involves an approach that consistently engages, enables and empowers others; leads and coaches ownership of learning and quality improvement; and facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Professional Accountancy qualification or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
  • Participation in Continuing Professional Development Programme or equivalent.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Highly developed specialist knowledge and experience of Financial Management, acquired over a substantial period working alongside other professional accountants, attending appropriate courses and undertaking extended self study.
Desirable criteria
  • • Working knowledge of Oracle Financials computer system
  • Knowledge NHS financial regimes and legislation

Other

Essential criteria
  • • It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Andrew Ward
Job title
Chief Finance Officer
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07519701863
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