Income & Contracts Analyst

Transformationunitgm; Oswestry, Cleobury North; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Income & Contracts Analyst to join their Finance Department. This role involves ensuring accurate income reporting and collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance financial performance. The successful candidate will support the Head of Income, Costing, and Contracts, manage monthly income reports, and oversee contract monitoring. With a commitment to excellence and patient care, this position offers a fantastic opportunity for professional growth and development in a supportive environment. Join a team that values your contributions and fosters a culture of respect and innovation.

Benefits

Professional Development Opportunities

State-of-the-art Facilities

Access to Health and Wellbeing Programs

Flexible Working Hours

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in NHS finance roles.
• CCAB Qualified or part qualified with commitment to finish studies.

Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Income in producing monthly clinical income reports.
• Oversee the production of contract monitoring reports for commissioners.

Skills

Finance Knowledge

Influencing Skills

Negotiating Skills

SQL

Microsoft Power Apps

NHS Finance Knowledge

Education

Degree in Related Subject

CCAB Qualified or Part Qualified

Tools

SQL

Microsoft Power Apps

PowerBI

PowerQuery

Job description

Main area Finance Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Hybrid working - minimum 2 days per week on-site) Job ref 224-PA20250402603

Employer The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital Town Oswestry Salary £37,338 - £44,962 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 16/05/2025 23:59

Income & Contracts Analyst

NHS AfC: Band 6

Here at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Trust, we are very proud of our reputation for providing outstanding care to our patients. Our continued success is accomplished through the skills and expertise of our staff, which is underpinned by our values: Friendly, Caring, Excellence, Professional and Respect. If your values align to ours, and you would like to join us in aspiring to deliver world class patient care, we would love to hear from you.

Job overview

Work as part of the Income, Contracts and Costing team within the Finance Department, ensuring that the income of the Trust is correctly identified and reported each month. This will involve working closely with other Trust staff to develop systems to support the internal and external reporting of income and contract performance across the diverse Commissioning base, comprising Integrated Care Boards (ICB’s) for England, Specialist Commissioners and Local Health Boards in Wales.

**Banding subject to Agenda for Change Evaluation**

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Main duties of the job

• To support the Head of Income, Costing and Contracts in producing the trusts monthly clinical income position.
• To ensure the general ledger is updated with monthly income performance at month end
• To oversee the production of monthly contract monitoring reports and distribution to commissioners.
• Responding to commissioner queries within the required timescales
• Day to day supervision of the Contracts Officer
• To respond rapidly to queries from internal stakeholders in respect of activity and income data to inform healthcare plans and assess financial risk
• To work with the Units to support improvement in the identifying, recording, coding, and invoicing of activity and outpatient procedures as necessary
• Keep abreast of updates to the NHS payment system and other related guidance
• Produce the clinical income reports needed to feed into the Costing teams Service Line Reporting (SLR) and PLICS.
• Deputise for the Head of Income, Costing and Contracts when required

Working for our organisation

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic NHS Trust (RJAH)is one of the leading orthopaedic hospitals in the country, with some of the highest levels of staff and patient satisfaction, as well as a strong reputation for research and innovation.

Joining RJAH is more than just a job – we want our people to have the best opportunities to thrive in their role.

We have a range of fantastic staff benefits on offer to everyone who joins RJAH and you'll have access to outstanding professional development opportunities and state-of-the-art facilities – including our recently-opened £6 million Headley Court Veterans’ Orthopaedic Centre (the first unit of its kind in the UK).

RJAH has strong links with a range of universities including Staffordshire, Keele, Glyndwr, Chester and Birmingham.

The hospital is located on a site outside Oswestry in Oswestry, just off the A5. The nearest train station is in Gobowen, approximately two miles from the hospital. The station is part of the Chester to Birmingham line.

We are based in North Shropshire, close to the border with North and Mid Wales. It is one of the most attractive parts of the country, with a rich historic culture and excellent transport links. It offers outstanding opportunities for anyone who enjoys an outdoor lifestyle or is looking to raise a family.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To support the Head of Income, Costing and Contracts:

o to develop, implement and maintain a paperless system for the recording, monitoring and billing of contract activity in line with a prescribed timetable and NHS financial policies and accounting procedures.
o to ensure that appropriate prior approval is obtained from Welsh Commissioners and high cost non contracted activity.
o by liaising with Senior Finance members in respect of the maintenance of an income risk provision.
o in completion of external reporting requirements to NHS England and other external bodies including but not limited to monthly financial reporting, annual planning and ad hoc data collections.

2. To oversee the preparation of the monthly commissioner income reports to allow monthly analysis of performance and monitoring against contract values. Taking a lead on answering any queries and answering ad-hoc commissioner queries.

3. To develop, implement and maintain systems for Non-Contracted Activity (NCA), which maximise income and minimise risk to the Trust.

4. To ensure general ledger is updated with income performance for the month in line with monthly closedown timetable.

5. Day to day supervision of the Contracts Officer

6. Respond rapidly to queries from executive directors and the Unit leads in respect of activity and income data to inform healthcare plans and assess financial risk.

7. Identify trends in coding that give rise to apparent activity variances, have implications for the contracting and contract monitoring process and advise on appropriate remedial action.

8. To keep abreast with updates to the NHS payment system (or similar) guidance to ensure that the Trust is both compliant with its chargeable activities and benefitting from the opportunity and scope that this offers.

9. Support the detailed assessment in respect of the Department of Health’s annual sense check and road test of the new NHS payment system tariffs, feeding back key movements and benchmarking findings with other members of the Specialist Orthopaedic Alliance as necessary.

10. To liaise with the Head of Income, Costing and Contracts to ensure that appropriate local tariffs are set and reviewed as required for activity without a mandated national tariff.

11. To work with the Units to support improvement in the identifying, recording, coding, and invoicing of activity and outpatient procedures as necessary.

12. Investigate contract challenges relating to data quality for Commissioner and respond within the agreed deadlines, liaising with the Information Team and escalating any issues to Line Manager in a timely manner.

13. Oversee the monthly assessment of the Partially Completed Spells to be included in the Trust income position during the month end process

14. To provide clinical income outputs to be used in Service Line Reporting (SLR) & PLICS on a quarterly basis.

15. On a quarterly basis analyse clinical income performance and trends within SLR reports, ensuring the accuracy and validity of financial information, taking the necessary corrective actions to ensure feeder systems are robust, analysing complex financial and non-financial information.

16. Act as the lead for external submissions of benchmarking data.

17. Deputise for the Head of Income, Costing and Contracts

18. Close working with the Clinical coding team, to assist with the Coding validation.

19. Assist the Head of Income, Costing and Contracts with external financial returns and long-term financial planning.

Person specification

Qualifications

• CCAB Qualified or Part Qualified with commitment to finish studies (or Qualified by Experience)
• Educated to degree level in a related subject

Experience

• 3 Years experience in a finance role
• 3 Years Experience in an NHS finance role
• Experience in an NHS Costing Team
• Experience in an NHS Income or Contracting Role

Skills and Knowledge

• Specialist knowledge of finance acquired through experience and/or qualifications
• Influencing and negotiating skills
• Experience working with SQL
• Experience working with Microsoft Power Apps Including PowerBI or PowerQuery
• Specialist knowledge of NHS finance (such as Costing, Income or Contracting) acquired through experience in an NHS or other healthcare setting

Important

Your application form must include a complete record of your employment history. Please explain any gaps in your employment/education history and reasons for these gaps. The Trust maintains the right to withdraw an employment offer or terminate employment if it is later found that an application for employment contained false, mis-leading or inaccurate information. For the avoidance of doubt this would include omissions of previous periods of employment or reasons given for gaps in employment.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this job advert early where sufficient applications have been received.

For Information

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHSFT embraces diversity, equality and inclusion and our aim is to be diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability and ethnicity.

We are committed to ensuring disabled workers aren’t disadvantaged when applying for and doing their jobs and offer an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised post. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

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Name Stefan Thomas-Bache Job title Head of Income, Costing and Contracts Email address [e-mail] Additional information

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