Job summary
Employer heading
SWLF63 Assistant Management Accountant
NHS AFC: Band 6
Job overview
The post is responsible for providing professional expertise to the outcome of the business
processes for the Department or Directorate.
As a Primary Care Assistant Management Accountant the post holder will work as part of a
dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the
South West London area to provide a full management accounting service.
In particular the post holder will:
Support teams to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively specifically in relation to local primary care and running costs services.
Support and inform the targeting of resources, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of the tasks/projects by providing high quality support including complex information and analysis, communications and stakeholder management
Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers and ensuring the management of specific tasks, lead reporting and analysis across a range of specialties, functions and projects
Be a key member of the team as well as supporting effective communication and stakeholder management, both internally and externally
Main duties of the job
· Ensure information is processed in accordance with procedures through completion of own work and through the coordination of the work of others.
· Investigate and advise on Primary Care issues.
· Provide a full management accounting service relating to DOPs (Dental, Ophthalmic and Pharmacy SWL services) and additional SWL Primary Care Budgets (e.g. NHS 111, Interpreting Services and Home Oxygen).
· Deputise for the Management Accountant
· Ensure all statutory returns represent a true and fair view and meet financial timescales
· Embed a culture of efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, sustainability and value for money.
Working for our organisation
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB), as part of South West London Integrated Care System (ICS), is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care
services to improve the lives of people in our six boroughs: Croydon, Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.
Each ICS consists of two statutory elements:
- an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care services
- an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):
- to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare;
- tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access;
- enhance productivity and value for money and;
- help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people's health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description for full details
1. Duties and Responsibilities
· Ensure information is processed in accordance with procedures through completion of own work and through the coordination of the work of others.
· Investigate and advise on Primary Care issues.
· Provide a full management accounting service relating to DOPs (Dental, Ophthalmic and Pharmacy SWL services), including additional SWL Primary Care Budgets (NHS 111, Interpreting Services and Home Oxygen).
· Deputise for the Management Accountant
· Ensure all statutory returns represent a true and fair view and meet financial
timescales
· Embed a culture of efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, sustainability and value for money.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes
Desirable criteria
- Studying towards a finance qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health services.
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Primary Care Finance, including DOPs (Dental, Ophthalmic and Pharmacy Finance)
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management and/or health information systems development
- Workforce development knowledge and experience
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Project ECDL
- Previous experience in similar role in public sector
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences
- Evidence of success in efficient and effective project and programme management
- Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence.
- Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Marshman
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Primary Care Finance
- Email address
- [email protected]
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