Assistant Income Accountant

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health organization in Huntingdon seeks an Assistant Income Accountant to support financial management, ensuring the recovery of patient-related income. The ideal candidate will be AAT qualified and have experience in NHS financial systems. This role offers the opportunity to gain a CCAB professional qualification and involves maintaining robust reporting systems to ensure accuracy in financial data while fostering effective relationships with various stakeholders. Join a supportive environment focused on professional development.

Benefits

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience of working in an NHS or similar non-profit making organisation.
• Experience in using financial systems and processes.
• Demonstrate experience in the analysis and assessment of financial and non-financial data.

Responsibilities

• Support the financial management of income in line with financial policies.
• Maintain internal reporting systems to ensure accurate patient-related income.
• Establish effective working relationships with stakeholders regarding financial issues.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong IT skills

Effective problem-solving skills

Influencing and negotiating skills

Education

AAT Qualified or equivalent experience

CCAB part-qualified

Tools

Oracle finance system

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Assistant Income Accountant

Closing date is 11 February 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Finance Team within Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust - you will be joining at a time when you can help to redefine the team's ethos. For that reason, we are looking for candidates who can already demonstrate embodiment of the Trust's values:

• Professionalism - including self-development and demonstrating compassion to colleagues
• Respect - creating and fostering positive relationships
• Innovation - looking for continuous improvement
• Dignity - treating colleagues as individuals
• Empowerment - building your confidence and independence

You will be part of a team which has gone through significant change over recent months and are therefore looking to rebuild their resilience. We are committed to providing a supportive work environment where employees can work to the best of their abilities. We value professional development and care about health & wellbeing of our staff with many initiatives in place to make us an employer of choice and an organisation than employees are proud to be a part of.

A fantastic opportunity for someone with a finance background, who is AAT Qualified and looking to gain a further CCAB professional qualification. By supporting the Trust to ensure it recovers all income due, and aid the development of PLICS costing methodologies, the post holder will gain a broad understanding of the entire range of services the Trust provides.

Main duties of the job

• Working with the Cost & Income Accountant to support the financial management of contractual and non-contractual income in line with financial policies. Assist with the on-going refinement and dissemination of Patient Level Information Costing (PLICS) within the Trust, and completion of the National Cost Collection return.
• The role will also be responsible for ensuring that the Trust has appropriate financial controls in relation to the recovery of overseas patient income. The post holder will be expected to ensure a customer-focussed service is provided by working closely with management accounts and commissioners.

The role will provide:

• Robust, timely and accurate financial support.
• Robust data monitoring to ensure identification of income due.
• High quality financial advice and information to Service Managers, Senior Management and all other stakeholders.
• To support the maintenance of financial systems and processes in order to seek continuous improvement, and ensure the Trust recovers all income due.
• The job holder may be required to liaise with Commissioning, Contracting, Informatics and clinical colleagues in the Cambridgeshire area, to discuss key financial performance issues pertaining to income.

About us

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• Maintenance and development of robust internal reporting systems to ensure patient related income is calculated accurately and recovered in a timely manner in accordance with national guidance.
• Production of timely, accurate and reliable financial information in line with monthly and year end timetables.
• Supporting the Cost & Income Accountant in budget-setting and maintenance of a defined portfolio of budgets.
• Establish effective working relationships with Contracting and Information and Performance Leads, ensuring understanding and ownership of financial issues pertinent to their areas.
• Investigate complex financial data to support variance analysis, and provide assistance and advice as required. This includes supporting the response to commissioner challenges.
• Identify trends from queries and pro-actively seek solutions in order to aid improvement.
• To act as a contact point for advice regarding the Department of Health policy and procedures in relation to Overseas visitors charging, to assess the possibility of a patients eligibility for charging exemptions all in line with the DoH Overseas Visitor regulations.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• AAT Qualified or equivalent experience
• CCAB part-qualified

Experience

• Experience of working in an NHS or similar non-profit making organisation
• Experience of working with financial systems and processes
• Demonstrate experience in the analysis and assessment of financial and non-financial data
• Experience in using Oracle finance system

Knowledge & Skills

• Excellent communication skills including presentation and summary of data into meaningful information for non-finance managers and colleagues
• Strong IT skills including Word, Excel and financial systems
• Effective problem-solving skills, especially for new issues where no precedent to follow
• Influencing and negotiating skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kingfisher House

Kingfisher Way, Hinchingbrooke Business Park

Kingfisher Way, Hinchingbrooke Business Park