Finance Manager - Income and Performance

Health Jobs UK; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Salisbury is seeking a Finance Specialist responsible for managing the National Tariff Payment System and supporting financial planning. The ideal candidate will hold Professional CCAB qualifications and possess excellent systems knowledge. Benefits include a minimum of 35 days paid leave and opportunities for career progression.

Benefits

Minimum of 35 days paid holiday

Generous pension scheme

Access to NHS discounts

On-site health and fitness club

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Professional CCAB qualifications are essential.
• In-depth systems knowledge of financial applications is critical.
• Must manage and develop new financial information reporting systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage month-end closedown routines ensuring financial ledger accuracy.
• Provide expert advice on NTPS to finance managers and clinicians.
• Ensure annual budget setting process aligns with financial targets.

Skills

In depth systems knowledge of financial applications

Expert knowledge of the National Tariff Payment System (NTPS)

Ability to manage and develop new financial information reporting systems

Professional CCAB qualifications

Job description

Job Overview

You will be responsible for accurately monitoring, forecasting and planning income levels for the Trust and will play a key role in the annual contracting process.

Provision of a systems administration service for the National Tariff Payment System monitoring systems (CIVICA) to ensure all day-to-day operations of the systems are completed to agreed time scales.

Expert on the National Tariff Payment System (NTPS) and be responsible for interpreting and implementing all aspects of NTPS policy and fully quantifying the impact of these changes on the Trust's income base, for both short and medium-term plans.

Lead and develop the strategic information and income reporting processes required by the Finance Department & Trust.

Main duties of the job

Manage month end closedown routines ensuring the financial ledger and CIVICA are reconciled to appropriate data interfaces.

Provide expert specialist advice on the implications of NTPS to Senior Finance and Non-Finance Managers and Clinicians.

Work with other senior finance colleagues to ensure that the annual budget setting process is robust; links effectively to the annual operating plan process and produces a budget which achieves financial and other targets.

Ensure data quality concerns raised externally are addressed by the Trust Data Quality Group and help to identify and disseminate best practice in data quality across the team and the organisation.

Liaise with Informatics teams to ensure the Trust demonstrates it is recording activity in line with NTPS guidelines and that the implications of current and forecast activity and finance trends are understood.

To ensure daily, monthly and annual system routines and reports are scheduled, reconciled and completed to timetable, therefore maintaining effective utilisation of system resources, as well as minimizing the effect on user response times.

To ensure that complete and accurate procedures are provided, in accordance with Standing Financial Instructions and Audit requirements, for the administration of all system applications.

Please see attached Job Description and person Specification for full details of role and responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Person specification

Shortlisting

Essential criteria

• Professional CCAB qualifications
• In depth systems knowledge of financial applications
• Be able to manage and development new financial information reporting systems which have impact on the Trust
• Expert knowledge of the National Tariff Payment System (NTPS)

Desirable criteria

• Financial systems management
• Ability to work under pressure and tight timescales
• Working with non-financial managers on finance and technical matters
• Awareness of current NHS policies and priorities

Question responses

Essential criteria

• In-depth post qualified experience
• Working at a senior level with the finance function of the NHS
• Working with external organisations (eg CCG's, NHS England, Social Care)

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of Financial Computerised systems

Benefits

We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. Take a look at our Employee Value Proposition (EVP) for more detailed information https://www.salisbury.nhs.uk/media/2lfatov2/employee-value-proposition-document-v12-final.pdf

• Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
• Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
• An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
• Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
• Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
• An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
• Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
• Cycle to work scheme
• Uniform provided (where required)
• On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
• On site health and fitness club
• On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Please note - Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship (or will need sponsorship at the end of a current visa eg those with graduate visa's) should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances. SEASONAL RESPIRATORY VACCINATIONS

We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.

GETTING TO WORK

We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY

We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.

The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial status and age.

Other information

If this job requires you to have DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to replay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary. Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £16 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Documents to download

• Finance JD & PS ( PDF , 416.6 KB )
• Facts about Salisbury ( PDF , 214.5 KB )