Income and Commissioning Accountant

Transformation Unit; Grimsby; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

The Income and commissioning accountant at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is a Band 8a role based across Castle Hill Hospital and Grimsby Hospital. You will negotiate with commissioners, model contracts and provide financial advice to support robust income forecasting for the NHS group.

Leading the Income Team, you will ensure monthly and quarterly reporting, manage contracting processes and represent the finance function on internal and external groups, with flexible

Qualifications

• Senior CCAB qualified accountant with NHS contracting experience.
• Expert knowledge of NHS financial regime and contracting reporting.
• Ability to lead finance teams and manage cross-trust processes.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate with commissioners to secure appropriate income.
• Provide contracting and financial modelling for contracts.
• Highlight risks and opportunities in commissioner contracts.
• Manage income monitoring, reporting and reconciliation.
• Lead the Income Team and deputise for senior finance leaders.

Skills

CCAB qualification

NHS income and contracts

Leadership / management experience

Contracting and reporting

Advanced Excel

IT systems knowledge (finance)

Education

CCAB qualification

Tools

Civica SLAM

MS Excel

Job description

Main area NHS Finance Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent: Group Wide Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (At least 3 days in the office - at least 1 day at Castle Hill Hospital and 2 days at Grimsby Hospital) Job ref 208-40CA52-26-1

Employer Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Castle Hill Hospital and Grimsby Hospital Town Hull and Grimsby Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 15/11/2026 23:59

Income and Commissioning Accountant

Band 8a

Job overview

As the Income and commissioning accountant your role is to

• Negotiate and liaise with Commissioners and other external organisations to ensure the Group receives the appropriate level of clinical income.
• Scope and provide contracting and financial advice, modelling and information to enable effective negotiation and monitoring of contracts.
• Highlight risks and opportunities within the commissioner contracts
• Support the internal SLR process, together with the costing and information teams.
• Manage the system for monitoring, reporting and reconciling income in line with contracts to ensure the Group receives the correct level of income.
• Ensure clinical income forecasting is robust across the Group
• Represent the finance department internally and externally on financial and performance monitoring groups.
• Management of the Income Team across the Group
• Deputise for the Assistant Director of Finance, as required.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder needs to use their expertise as a CCAB qualified accountant and specialist expert knowledge of the NHS financial regime to:
  • Ensure robust processes are in place to manage the Trust’s monthly and quarterly reporting obligations to both internal and external bodies, ensuring that the requirements of contracts with external bodies are achieved.
  • Negotiate with commissioners at a senior level to ensure the Trust receives the appropriate level of income and forecasts of income, risks and opportunities across both Trusts are robust.
  • Provide high quality financial advice and data to enable the effective commissioning with all commissioners.
  • To establish and maintain robust policies and procedures to ensure financial systems provide robust information
  • To communicate complex financial issues to non- finance professionals.
• The post holder is required to maintain membership of a CCAB accountancy body and undertake structured continuous professional development (CPD) as specified by their accountancy body.
• The post holder is required to undertake CPD in order to maintain an expert knowledge of the NHS financial regime, a detailed knowledge of NHS management/policy issues and to ensure other management skills are kept at a high level.
• Needs an excellent understanding of IT systems including the financial ledger, SLAM, databases and complex spreadsheets enabling the finance team to fully exploit the benefits of any Trust information systems.

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

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Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Full CCAB qualification

Knowledge, Training & Experience

• Senior accounting experience, ideally with a focus on NHS income and contracts.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, manage and develop finance teams.
• Expert Knowledge of the current NHS financial Regime
• Working knowledge of Commissioning processes.
• Advanced IT skills (MS Office products, particularly Advanced Excel for complex formulae/modelling, bespoke financial software)
• Management Experience within NHS Finance
• Substantial post qualification experience in an NHS environment

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

• Experience collaborating with external commissioners and non-finance personnel.
• Ability to communicate with all levels of staff within different NHS disciplines
• Report writing skills and experience interpreting highly complex financial data and translating it into actionable plans.
• Negotiating and influencing skills
• Knowledge of general ledger and contracting reporting requirements
• Knowledge of Civica’s SLAM system.
• Knowledge of Service Line Reporting

Special Attributes and other

• Honesty and integrity
• Creative and innovative
• Excellent analytical skills

Other Requirements

• Ability to travel as requires office days in Grimsby Hospital

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.