About this role
Job summary
At Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust we are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and pride ourselves on being a supportive team. We are a level 3 accredited One NHS Finance employer. We value our diverse workforce and our finance staff are pivotal in shaping how we address the financial challenges we face going forward.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual to join our Management Accounting team. This post provides Senior financial leadership to a number of service lines within the Trust.
This is a critical role and will give the post holder the opportunity to interact with and work alongside the senior leadership of the Trust.
The broad purpose of the post is to support the Director of Finance, the Chief Executive, General Managers, Divisional Directors, Clinical Directors and all Executive and Non-Executive Directors in ensuring that the Trust meets both its financial and performance targets.
This is an excellent role for an ambitious individual who likes challenges, is self-motivated and wants to use their financial skills to add value and understand how financial resources can be used to support service improvement. The post holder will play a crucial role in ensuring robust and timely management accounting information is available to service lines.
Main duties of the job
Main roles include:
Ensuring the production of accurate and timely financial performance reports for the appropriate Directorates within a timetable agreed with the Director of Finance;
Monitoring financial performance of the Directorates and, where necessary, implementing corrective action with the relevant General Manager and budget holders to enable the Trust to meet its financial targets;
The annual budget setting of the Directorates;
The continuous development of Service Line Reporting, ensuring that the relevant General Manager and budget holders understand and use Service Line Reports
About us
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.
Job description Job responsibilities
The broad purpose of the post is to support the Director of Finance, the Chief Executive, General Managers, Divisional Directors, Clinical Directors and all Executive and Non-Executive Directors in ensuring that the Trust meets both its financial and performance targets.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Evidence of Degree
oQualifications Essential
oPost-graduate qualification in Accountancy Evidence
Qualifications Essential
oMember of appropriate professional body e.g. CIPFA - evidence
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address Luton & Dunstable Hospital
Luton & Dunstable Hospital
Luton
LU4 0DZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.bedfordshirehospitals.nhs.uk/working-here/ (Opens in a new tab)