Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 411-COR-24-6746518
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Liverpool Innovation Park
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Finance Business Partner
Band 7
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
The primary purpose of the Deputy Finance Business Partner is to provide the Finance Business Partners, Senior Finance Business Partners and Divisional SMT with support to meet the Trust's statutory reporting requirements and deadlines in line with Finance Policy and Procedure’s.
Main duties of the job
Working with the Finance Business Partners, the post holder will develop and produce information to support accurate and timely monthly performance reports for presentation at service meetings and to feed into the Trusts position for internal and external corporate reporting.
Working for our organisation
This is your chance to play a vital role in transforming the future of children and young people at Alder Hey and contribute to a forward thinking, innovative organisation and join our award-winning team:
- 2023 Public Finance Awards Finalist - “Finance Team of the Year’ & ‘Digital Project of the Year’.
- 2022 HFMA Finalist for Health Inequalities through Finance Action
- 2020 HFMA Value and Innovation
- 2020 Havelock Training (It recognises best practice in the training and development of finance staff or the raising of financial awareness and skills within the wider non-financial workforce)
- 2017 HFMA Finance Team of the year
We are proud of and value all members of our team. We have an ethos and strategy of being the Number One Place to work underpinned by our One Team Goal agenda. Our mission statement is “delivering Financial and Procurement Intelligence and Excellence for Alder Hey” and this is recognised by our Level 2 finance skills development accreditation.
We have a strong commitment to ensuring Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) are at the forefront of everything we do. We have a Finance Inclusion Group that is made up of finance colleagues that are passionate about EDI and champion the implementation of EDI best practise across the department. Our EDI mission statement is “Building a culture where everybody belongs”. We are a large diverse team that appreciates one another for the diversity we bring to the team, and we make sure that everyone feels included.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be a proactive and highly motivated, CCAB or CIMA qualified accountant, with post qualification experience, with strong IT skills and competent in the use of Microsoft Office.
Under the guidance of the Finance Business Partner, the Deputy Finance Business Partner will need:
- To lead on all aspects of financial management of the Division to ensure financial viability
- To oversee the preparation of divisional budgets in accordance with guidelines and deadlines provided by the Director of Finance
Please see Job Description for further information
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- • CCAB Qualified
Desirable criteria
- • Educated to degree level or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Proven NHS financial management experience
- • Ability to review and interpret financial statements
- • Experience of working with managers/professionals
- • Evidence of track record of achievement
Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- • Sound knowledge of current NHS FT Finance regime
- • Sound knowledge of N.H.S. financial / costing systems and guidance
- • Sound knowledge of N.H.S Business Case process
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Ability to communicate effectively, via a variety of media and forums, with a wide range of people from all levels both from within and outside of the Trust
- • Well developed influencing and negotiation skills
- • Strong analytical and reasoning skills supported by attention to detail
- • Proficient in use of current business software (e.g. Microsoft Office) and able to apply this to the development of financial models
- • Innovative and creative approach
- • Able to interpret guidance, assess risk, make decisions and influence change.
- • Demonstrable open and developmental leadership style
- • Project management skills
Desirable criteria
- • Able to interpret guidance, assess risk, make decisions, and influence change.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Strategic and innovative thinker
- • Team player
- • Demonstrates commitment to the job
- • Able to manage conflicting demands and plan appropriate strategy
- • Able to think laterally
- • Act with integrity and professionalism at all times
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Esme Evans
- Job title
- Senior Finance Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
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