Finance Officer - PHB (Personal Health Budget)

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board; Praze-An-Beeble, Truro, Bodmin; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare organization is seeking a Personal Health Budget Finance Officer to support its finance team in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The role requires financial validation and managing audits for Personal Health Budgets. Applicants should have finance experience and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders. This position offers a hybrid working arrangement and a salary between £27,485 and £30,162 pro rata.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Pension scheme

Discounts in stores and online

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in the finance department of a large organization.
• Understanding of Personal Health Budgets.
• Ability to communicate with patients and families respectfully.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of Personal Health Budget activity.
• Undertake audits of spending to ensure compliance.
• Provide analyzed cost information to senior managers.

Skills

Financial analysis

Data manipulation

Communication

Problem-solving

Spreadsheet proficiency

Education

Technician level AAT or equivalent NVQ Level 4

Tools

Microsoft Office

Financial ledger systems

Job description

Overview

Go back NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board

This job is currently only open to people who already work for the NHS in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly.

We are committed to supporting our dedicated staff, so only current employees of the following organisations can apply:

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board

Cornwall Foundation Trust

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

If you do not currently work for one of these NHS organisations, your application will not be considered at this time.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Personal Health Budget (PHB) Finance officer to join our friendly and dedicated Finance team working for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Continuing healthcare (CHC). This is a permanent position. The post holder will play a key role in ensuring the financial validation of individuals PHBs and supporting the CHC service by providing an effective and competent level of accounts payable knowledge in a client-focused service.

CHC is full of activity where caring colleagues achieve together to meet the needs of the service. You will be required to work in partnership with your colleagues, work on your own initiative and manage sensitive situations.

We can offer hybrid working which allows you to work flexibly from one of our offices and from home in line with organisational requirements. We can provide the appropriate IT equipment, however there is an expectation that you will have a suitable home environment in which to work from.

Main duties of the job

• Support the ICB in delivery of Personal health budget activity and financial targets by liaising with CHC co-ordinators and management team to ensure that all supporting documentation is completed and all systems are updated to manage and deliver PHBs effectively.
• Undertake regular audits of spend to ensure individual PHBs are being utilised in line with support plans.
• Produce exception reports to show where actual costs vary significantly from the planned costs for any period and investigate/highlight the cause of these variances within the financial review individual report.
• Provide analysed cost and activity information to senior managers to support the investigation of variances.
• Maintain annual timetabling of monthly PHB direct payments schedule and execute payment to individual accounts via approval process for payment run.
• Support the wider team in the delivery of financial procedures such as accounts payable, invoicing, care home schedule payments, financial queries and restitution of reclaims process.
• Supervision of finance staff, allocating work, co-ordinating activities, appraisals, return to work interviews, authorisation annual leave requests, management of formal performance cases and training of new staff.

About us

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board is a statutory NHS organisation responsible for developing a plan for meeting the health needs of our communities, managing the NHS budget, and arranging for the provision of joined up health services which improve the lives of people who live and work in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

By collaborating as an integrated care system (ICS) our health and care organisations can tackle complex challenges, including:

Improving the health of children & young people

Supporting people to stay well & independent

Acting sooner to help those with preventable conditions

Supporting those with long-term conditions or mental health issues

Caring for those with multiple needs as populations age

Getting the best from collective resources so people get care as quickly as possible.

We are keen to hear from people who would like to work with us, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of sex, sexual orientation, racial origin or disability.

You can look forward to excellent benefits including discounts in store and online, optional pension and life assurance, flexible working options, salary sacrifice vehicles and cycles and much more.

We are looking for people whose personal values and behaviours align with the NHS values outlined in theNHS Constitutionand our ownvalues and behaviours.Find out more about NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICB in the "about us" section of our website.

Job responsibilities

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format, please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

PLEASE NOTE: To view the full job description and person specification, please view the supporting information.

To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:

Identity checks

Professional registration and qualification checks

Employment history and reference checks

Work health assessments

Criminal record check standards

Right to work checks

For further information please visit:

https://www.nhsemployers.org/topics-networks/employment-standards-and-regulation

Person Specification

• Technician level AAT or equivalent NVQ Level 4 or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience
• Relevant experience in the finance department of a large organisation.
• Working knowledge of financial ledger systems, reconciliations and journals.
• An understanding of the personalisation agenda and the use of Personal Health Budgets to support delivery of identified healthcare needs
• Excellent spread sheet and data manipulation and analysis skills.
• Able to plan and organise work to comply with competing monthly deadlines.
• Able to problem solve and make decisions in accordance with financial policies.
• Experience of being able to communicate well with patients, their families and other agencies dealing with sensitive information and understanding the importance of confidentiality
• Advanced keyboard skills, particularly use of Microsoft Office; able to create and maintain databases using Excel
• Lean or Prince 2 project management
• Experience gained from working in a NHS Finance department with detailed knowledge of NHS finance regime

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.

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board

£27,485 to £30,162 a yearper annum pro rata