An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Manager within our Financial Management Team.

@Finance SFH are multi-award winning. Our recent successes include East Midlands 2022 Large Finance Team of the Year Winners and SFH Staff Excellence winners.

An enthusiastic, positive attitude and approach to work is essential, as is a determination to drive value for patients and tax payers. If you are a team player who can demonstrate excellent personal qualities such as integrity, self-awareness & self-management, compassion & care and resilience then @FinanceSFH is the perfect place for you to come and work.

The successful candidate will be welcomed into our Future Focused Finance accredited level 3 team with a strong focus on wellbeing, collaboration, reflection and continuous improvement. We pride ourselves on the relationships with our stakeholders and aim to provide a finance function which will empower Sherwood Forest Hospitals to deliver the best healthcare possible.

Reporting to one of the Senior Divisional Finance Managers, the successful candidate will be responsible for contributing to a comprehensive financial management and support service to divisions, providing key business and financial support to these divisions.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journals Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated Kings Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Personal Values

Essential

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's values
• Must be able to demonstrate a strength in conviction of personal values, to ensure those within the service also demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's values and standards

Communications and Relationships Skills

Essential

• Possess excellent verbal & written communication skills and the ability to convey complex financial issues to non-finance managers
• Be able to demonstrate a commitment to quality and customer focused service
• Demonstrate tact, diplomacy, confidentiality, and persuasion and to stand up and be counted on key issues

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

• Excellent working knowledge of MS Office
• Awareness of standard accounting and auditing practice and financial reporting standards
• Knowledge of the planning and budget setting processes within an NHS Trust
• Good business management and administrative abilities
• Knowledge of principles of service development/improvement and performance management
• Knowledge of performance management techniques and toolsets
• Strong leadership and project management skills

Desirable

• Knowledge of current issues in the NHS and the changing nature of healthcare provision
• Knowledge and understanding of NHS finance, policies and procedures
• Knowledge and understanding of benchmarking techniques and sources of benchmarking information
• Knowledge and understanding of the NHS Transformation and efficiency agenda

Qualifications

Essential

• CCAB Finalist or Passed Finalist (or qualified by experience on exceptional basis)

Desirable

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent)
• CCAB Qualified

Further Training

Essential

• Demonstrate evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience of working in a busy financial management environment
• High level experience of IT, including advanced spreadsheets, budgeting and financial modelling systems and costing systems (e.g. PLICS)

Desirable

• Working within NHS finance
• Experience of systems development and implementation

Analytical and Judgemental Skills

Essential

• Possess numerical and analytical skills, including the ability to assimilate & interpret complex data and make resultant judgements
• Ability to convey financial issues and complex data to non-financial staff
• Be able to understand and implement financial management policies and internal control procedures and determine changes to practices for own area
• Ability to work within policies and procedures with a high degree of autonomy

Desirable

• The ability to undertake training sessions on finance matters to non-specialists

Planning and Organisational Skills

Essential

• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a wider team
• Ability to plan, organise and achieve objectives/tasks set within specified time frames
• Possess excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage and prioritise conflicting demands
• Capacity to concentrate to complete tasks in a busy office environment and demonstrates attention to detail

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• Ability to work the hours required, to ensure satisfactory performance of duties

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL

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