Job overview

Do you have the passion, motivation and enthusiasm to work in the NHS and contribute towards ensuring that NHS financial resources achieve the very best value for money for taxpayers and service users.

Are you a CCAB Qualified Accountant with excellent planning, organisation and communication skills?

Can you lead and manage a team?

If the answer to these questions is yes, then we have a fantastic opportunity for you to join the Finance Directorate at North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

The role will provide comprehensive financial management advice and expertise to managers across the Paramedic Emergency Services and Integrated Contact Centres.  This includes providing financial input to support service development decisions, leading the annual budget setting process and supporting in the delivery of productivity and efficiency developments.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate a wide range of leadership skills and behaviours to ensure good governance, strong financial management and business acumen is embedded not just within the Management Accounts team but across the organisation.

Main duties of the job

Provide proactive financial leadership, advice and information to budget holders to deliver balanced budgets, support on key change projects, benchmarking and tenders.

Lead on the delivery of the month end financial position, encompassing trust reserves and the efficiency programme, monitoring actual and forecast performance against the financial plan. Lead on the management and development of next year’s budget, capturing all cost pressures and efficiency plans. Deliver internal and external reporting requirements ensuring reports are accurate, timely and relevant.

Lead and nurture the management accounts team to fulfil their roles and promote a culture of continuous and quality improvement, encouraging finance staff development and best use of resources and systems to deliver efficient and quality outputs.

Working for our organisation

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.

Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.
We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.

Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.

We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Any offer of employment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information, provide false or misleading information.

Should you be successful at interview stage successful candidates will receive a conditional offer of employment, this will be subject to the NHS Employment Checks Standards.

Right to work - You will be required to provide a valid right to work in the UK document. North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust are currently able to provide sponsorship for roles that identified under the Health and Care visa, further information on this can be found here Health and Care Worker visa: Your job - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Reference checks - This will cover a minimum of a three year period and will include a request for the number of days and occasions of sickness absence covering a minimum two year period. In line with equality legislation, the earliest point at which we will ask health related questions is when an offer of employment has been made. Absences related to disability may be excluded from these considerations; consideration would be given as to what would be a reasonable attendance level, based on the information available. Absences related to pregnancy, maternity and/or gender reassignment will be excluded from these considerations. Detailed information on the NHS Employment Checks Standards is available on the NHS Employers website; search ‘employment checks’.

DBS Checks - If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made for this disclosure.

Occupational Health - You will require satisfactory medical clearance.

Whilst not a condition of employment, all staff are encouraged to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as this remains the best lined of defence against COVID-19.

From 1^st September 2018, Section 2 of the Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions will automatically apply to the calculation of unsocial hours  for all appointments that commence in post from this date (except secondments).

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