This is an exciting opportunity to gain experience within a financially challenged but friendly acute Trust in west London. We have evolved our working arrangements into a hybrid model, enabling our staff to work across our sites and from home locations.

This gives benefits including improved productivity, supports a better work life balance and significantly extends our traditional staff catchment area.

We have a number of Finance Business Partners supporting clinical and non clinical portfolios, who provide accurate, timely financial planning and reporting information and expert financial advice, in respect of clinical and non clinical support services.

Main duties of the job

You will work with colleague Finance Business Partners and our finance team, divisional clinical and non clinical colleagues up to and including Executive Directors.

This is a senior role providing financial and business support to the seniormanagement teams of the clinical and non clinical divisions, and across the Finance Department. The postholder's leadership skills and excellent strategic and operational financial management acumen will be instrumental to the successful delivery of our financial recovery and ongoing development.

You will bring experience and skills to support the development of the finance team to realise their full potential as a high performing and best in class finance function You must be CCAB/CIMA qualified or finalist. You will work independently and will be required to interpret policies, national guidance and accounting standards, to support clinicians and managers at all levels of the organisation with service planning, good financial management practice, effective utilisation of resources and financial control.

Interview date 27th September

About us

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people across the Borough of Hillingdon, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare - our mission is to provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, improving the health and wellbeing of the people we serve.

We provide elective and emergency services including a busy Accident & Emergency Department and Maternity Unit. We also provide some diagnostic, elective inpatient surgery and outpatient clinics on our Mount Vernon site.

We employ around 3,500 staff with an annual revenue budget of �250 million. We are currently in segment 3 of the NHS England Oversight Framework and we are working to deliver a challenging but realistic recovery trajectory.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Person Spec

Essential

• Professional Accountancy Qualification - CCAB Qualified (Level 7 Masters).
• Keeping up to date with legislative and financial NHSi regulations and best practice.
• Leadership & Management Development training and/or equivalent work experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Significant senior experience in financial management, including leading on budget setting in a similar environment to the NHS
• Experience of working under pressure and meeting deadlines
• Experienced in developing and presenting formal, complex business cases to non-finance managers and directors.
• Experience of leading change and improvements, including leading key stakeholders across the Trust and own team.
• Understanding of the NHS financial framework
• Awareness of the challenges facing the NHS and particular issues affecting the local healthcare economy and knowledge of how to update and improve policy to meet these challenges.
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations to develop a range of options, proposing the best solution for the Trust. Regularly persuading and negotiating with senior managers to this view.

Desirable

• Senior level NHS Financial Management experience
• Understanding of Payment by Results (PbR) tariffs
• Project management experience.
• Knowledge of e-financials financial system and ESR payroll system.
• Experience of working in a Commissioning environment.

Employer details

Employer name

The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hillingdon

Pield Heath Road

Uxbridge

UB8 3NN

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