Senior Finance Business Partner - EPR (Band 8b)

NHS; Tadcaster; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to join their Financial Management team. The successful candidate will support the deployment of a new Electronic Patient Record system, ensuring effective financial management and resource utilization. Candidates must be CIMA/ACCA/CIPFA qualified with significant experience in financial procedures within the NHS. The position offers a part-time contract, competitive salary, and a collaborative work environment.

Qualifications

• Significant post qualification experience in a similar role.
• Ability to provide specialist advice on financial issues.
• Knowledge of NHS financial legislation and systems.

Responsibilities

• Produce and present reports on financial plans.
• Support EPR Programme Leadership teams to meet financial targets.
• Supervise the work of other finance team members.

Skills

Communication skills

Expert knowledge of financial procedures

Ability to work with financial ledgers

Strategic planning experience

High level numeric skills

Education

CIMA/ACCA/CIPFA qualified

Job description

Job Summary

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is a forward looking dynamic well managed organisation with an award winning finance department. Airedale NHS FT is located close to Skipton, with the nearby Yorkshire Dales and is regarded as a very pleasant place to work.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our award winning Finance Team. We are pleased to offer the opportunity for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our Financial Management team. The role is to support the strategically significant programme to deploy a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR).

Based in the Finance Department within the hospital, the team work closely with operational colleagues to support robust financial management and ensures operational colleagues are able to manage their budgets effectively and confidently.

Working closely with the Assistant Director of Finance and EPR Programme Leadership Teams this is a role which is focused on delivering high quality financial, planning and reporting information.

The post holder will have a key role in ensuring the effective use of resources through providing high quality financial information, advice and support at a senior level. We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed individual with a real commitment to excellent service delivery and great communication skills.

Interview date: TBC

Main Duties of the Job

• Supporting the Assistant Director of Finance by producing and presenting reports on financial plans and budgetary performance.
• Ensuring all transactions are recorded and accounted for correctly to meet statutory obligations, inform decision making, and support internal and external monitoring.
• Supporting the EPR Programme Senior Leadership teams to enable them to meet their financial targets and key commitments.
• Planning the work of other members of the team.
• Working to deadlines, planning time effectively, and ensuring processes and procedures are in place for use across the department. Communicating across all of the finance function and forming strong working relationships outside of own team.
• Escalating areas of concern and deputising in the absence of the Assistant Director of Finance.
• Working independently and providing a full range of expert financial advice to the management teams.
• Being a key and integral part of the EPR programme decision making team, accountable alongside EPR programme leaders for financial performance.

About Us

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our 'Right Care' behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients - we want to make these part of our DNA.

Details

Date posted: 31 October 2025

Pay & Contract

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8b

Salary: £64,455 to £74,896 a year pro rata per annum

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 15 months

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 423-7433298A

Job Location

Airedale General Hospital, Skipton Road, Steeton, BD20 6TD

Job Description

For further details and a detailed job description, please see the attached job description and person specification attached to this advert.

Person Specification

Qualifications – Essential

• CIMA/ACCA/CIPFA qualified with significant post qualification experience or proven NHS experience working in a similar role.

Experience – Essential

• Ability to demonstrate detailed experience and expert knowledge of the key accounting areas, including the key procedures and policies, NHS financial legislation, key computer systems such as financial ledgers and providing specialist advice on a full range of financial issues including both revenue and capital.
• Knowledge and experience of working with a computerised ledger and other financial systems with excellent IT skills.
• Knowledge and experience of strategic and business planning processes.
• Knowledge and experience of the NHS financial regime, Payment by Results/Aligned Incentive Contracts, NHS Data Definitions, costing techniques/health service reference costs and Private Patients.
• High level numeric skills, competent in processing and interpreting data.
• Ability to reconcile financial data and maintain appropriate documentation on file.
• Ability to understand the need for consistency of both process and procedure within the finance function, and the need for continual review to ensure this is maintained. Knowledge of Performance Management Processes.

Desirable

• NHS experience and knowledge.
• Knowledge of NHS Capital & Asset Accounting, capital investment appraisal techniques.

Communication – Essential

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to chair meetings and deal with issues covering a wide range of parties.
• A confident, pleasant approach, willing to develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues and working with multidisciplinary teams.
• A commitment to behaving honestly, openly, impartially and fairly.

Influencing & Negotiating – Essential

• Confident in the ability to stand up for a personal point of view, even against articulate and powerful opposition.

Planning, Monitoring and Controlling – Essential

• Ability to implement policies, but also interpret guidelines and work within clearly defined operating policies and procedures which exist within the finance discipline.
• Adheres to the need for control, regularly reviewing and auditing own work and that of others.
• Ability to take responsibility for own workload and overseeing that of others, forward planning, working flexibly and prioritizing competing demands.

Making Decisions & Thinking Strategically – Essential

• Ability to see the wider corporate view, and make decisions which are in the best interests of the organisation.
• Ability to analyse, interpret and present highly complex information, considering options, highlighting inconsistencies and discrepancies and performing necessary financial calculations to assist the decision making process.

Working with/leading others and development – Essential

• Ability to manage a team of finance staff, delivering support, coaching and training, organizing recruitment activities, providing mechanisms for appraisal and dealing with disciplinary/absence issues.

Working Environment & Conditions – Essential

• Ability to balance different aspects of the role, and prioritize work across a wide area.
• A committed and enthusiastic desire to attain high standards.

Personal Development – Essential

• Creative and innovative, with the desire and ability to propose changes to working practices and procedures.
• Reviews own performance, assesses own strengths and weaknesses, takes corrective action and identifies areas for own personal development.
• A commitment to taking responsibility and facilitating the successful achievement of desired outcomes.
• Ability to take the lead on key developments, acting as a specialist in a particular financial area.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer Details

Employer name: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Airedale General Hospital, Skipton Road, Steeton, BD20 6TD

Employer website: https://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk