Finance Business Partner - Band 7

Health Jobs UK; Lincoln; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A large healthcare trust in Lincolnshire is seeking a Finance Business Partner for their Financial Management Team. This role offers flexible working opportunities and requires CCAB qualifications. You will enhance financial services focusing on quality and efficiency. We're looking for a motivated individual to join our dynamic team committed to excellent patient care.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Generous NHS Pension Scheme

27 to 33 days of annual leave

Health & Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Previous experience of management accounting and costing techniques.
• Producing and presenting reports at various levels.
• Some Senior Financial management experience.

Responsibilities

• You will contribute to the delivery of a high-quality Financial Management service.
• Support and encourage development needs through training opportunities.

Skills

Advanced IT skills

Analytical powers and Business Thinking

Relationship Building

Excellent communication skills

Negotiating and influencing skills

Education

CCAB Qualified or Qualified by Experience

Tools

Advanced spreadsheets

Computerised financial ledgers

Budgeting and financial modelling systems

Job description

• Change & Learning orientation
• A Service Leaver

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals - people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our values guide everything we do. They are:

• Patient-centred - Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
• Safety - Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
• Excellence - Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
• Compassion - Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
• Respect - Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We've taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So, what is in it for you?

• Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

• Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
• Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
• Compressed hours - usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
• Staggered hours - having different start and finish times.
• Set shift patterns - to allow for predictability
• NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
• Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there is more.

• Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
• Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
• Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
• Financial support and benefits i ncluding Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
• Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK's most welcoming counties. Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more .

Job overview

Are you

• Looking for a role within the finance department of a large acute Trust?
• Wanting to work in one of the largest hospital trusts in the country?
• Wanting to play a role in improving the Trust's financial and quality positions?
• Enthusiastic and highly motivated?

The Financial Management department aspires to 'make our best difference' to the services we support and keep the patient at the centre of everything we do.

The Role

• Finance Business Partner, Financial Management Team, Lincoln based
• Agenda For Change Band 7; 37.5 hours per week with agile/flexible working opportunities
• Permanent

You will be a member of the Finance Department, working in Financial Management, and contributing to the delivery of an efficient, high quality Financial Management service with opportunities to shadow other finance and clinical roles. You will receive support and encouragement to fulfil your development needs through both internal and external opportunities

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a high calibre, forward thinking individual with an improvement and growth mind-set to enhance our progressive and energetic Team

To join our dynamic and award winning team you will possess

• CCAB qualification (applications will be accepted from candidates with logbook outstanding) or Qualified by Experience.
• Experience of management accounting and costing techniques.
• Experience of producing and presenting reports at various organisational levels.
• Some Senior Financial management experience.
• Experience of IT including advanced spreadsheets, computerised financial ledgers, budgeting and financial modelling systems and costing systems.
• Some understanding of NHS Financial Regime.
• Excellent communication skills - you must be able to work in a team, be able to build good working relationships with colleagues, possess good influencing and negotiating skills, be achievement orientated and able to use own initiative.
• It is also important that the person within this role demonstrates a strong performance against the Trust Behaviour Framework.

Working for our organisation

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What should you do next?

Have a look at the job description and if you like what you see then apply today. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. Your NHS needs you!

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• CCAB Qualified or Qualified by Experience.
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development

Desirable criteria

• Undertaking or willing to undertake further management courses.

Knowledge, Skills and Aptitude
Essential criteria

• Advanced IT skills
• Analytical powers and Business Thinking.
• Relationship Building and Team Working.
• Achievement Orientation, Self Confidence and Initiative.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work across some levels of the organisation
• Negotiating and influencing skills.
• Some knowledge of finance legislation
• Planning and Organisation.
• Numerical skills
• Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework: Patient Centred; Safety; Compassion; Respect; Excellence
• Awareness and Knowledge of the dignity in care agenda

Desirable criteria

• Judgement and Decision Making,
• Leadership and Coaching skills.
• Change & Learning orientation

Previous Experience
Essential criteria

• Previous experience of management accounting and costing techniques.
• Producing and presenting reports at various levels dependent on organisational structure
• Some Senior Financial management experience.
• Experience of IT including advanced spreadsheets, computerised financial ledgers, budgeting and financial modelling systems and costing systems.
• Some understanding of NHS Financial Regime.

Desirable criteria

• Previous finance experience within the Health Service.
• Commercial awareness.
• Previous Senior Financial management experience within the NHS.
• Experience of working within an acute trust

Specific requirements
Essential criteria

• Ability to travel between different sites and within region.
• Acts as a role model and promotes professional working ethics.
• Able to be flexible with working patterns, which may include some evenings and weekends as determined by the needs of the service & key deadlines
• Able to demonstrate commitment to the job, the achievement of deadlines and acceptance of personal responsibility.
• Must be committed to the maintenance and development of professional standards

ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.

We are a People Promise exemplar site, for more information on the NHS People Promise - NHS England " Our NHS People Promise

As a responsible employer ULTH would encourage staff wishing to join the Trust to take up the COVID vaccination as this continues to remain the best line of defence against COVID19

Please note that we do not accept CVs.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

No DBS fees to pay: Successful candidates will have DBS applications applied for & paid by ULTH where applicable. There is no requirement to reimburse ULTH for this cost.

We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick "Member of the Armed Forces Community" if the below applies to you.

You are:

• A Service Leaver
• A Veteran
• A Military Reserve
• A Cadet Force Adult Volunteer
• Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• 357-LN-1893-24 JD PS Finance Business Partner B7 ( PDF , 384.4 KB )
• ULHT Staff Networks ( PDF , 13.9 MB )
• CEO welcome letter ( PDF , 83.6 KB )
• Acceptable use of AI in Personal Statements ( PDF , 95.3 KB )