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Main area
Financial Management
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
6 months (Fixed Term)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
319-6403595KD
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wansbeck General Hospital
Town
Ashington
Salary
£25,147 - £27,596 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Support Accountant

NHS AfC: Band 4

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

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Support Accountant to join our busy and dynamic Financial Management team at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within the Financial Management team for the Community Business Unit.  The post holder will work with the Business Unit Accountants to deliver financial support and understanding to the service managers and leads within the Business Unit.

Summary of key elements for the role;

  • budget statement reconciliation and analysis
  • producing budget statements from the ledger
  • investigating variances and making necessary adjustments
  • implementing adjustments to income and expenditure for forecast and budget setting
  • validation of new spend and involvement in business cases
  • working closely with finance colleagues
  • active engagement with budget holders and other Trust colleagues

The post holder must be able to work on their own and as part of a team.  The post holder must be able to prioritise and manage the fluctuating demands on the service.

The role is based at Wansbeck General Hospital and the working hours are Monday to Friday.  

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

• To support the Principal Finance Manager / Directorate Accountant in providing a high quality financial management accounting service to Community Services.
• To undertake specific projects as defined by the Principal Finance Manager / Directorate Accountant.
• To organise, co-ordinate, input and manipulate data within the computerised accounting system.
• To produce monthly financial management budget reports for managers within strict financial timescales, together with supporting information, and analyse and report on reasons for expenditure varying from budget.
• To analyse complex financial trends and compile forecasts of income and expenditure.
• To investigate queries and provide advice, support and training to Directorate Managers.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and
collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Actively studying towards a Professional Accountancy qualification i.e part-qualified
  • Studying towards ECDL accreditation or equivalent experience

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

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Steve Hood
Job title
Deputy Head of Finance
Email address
[email protected]
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