Job summary
DSFS Ltd based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital are looking to recruit into the role of Assistant Cost Accountant. This is a key role supports the Head of Costing for both internal and external cost reporting specifically patient level costing and service efficiency and cost effectiveness.
Hybrid working is currently available for this role, once initial induction is completed, in addition to access to our flexi-time policy.
For any further information with regards to the role or the wider team please use the contact details below.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered
Main duties of the job
Assist the Head of Costing in the control, maintenance & development of the Patient level Costing system.
Ensure the collection, formatting, validation and inputting of activity and cost data to ensure the accurate and timely production of Trust costs.
To assist in the submission of the Trust's National Cost Collection, to meet NHSE deadlines ensuing compliance with NHSE costing guidance where possible and detailing where divergence is required.
To develop an understanding of the Trust's services in conjunction with the Head of Costing, the Divisions & Divisional Accountancy teams to accurately produce meaningful costs at various levels of granularity.
In conjunction with the Head of Costing develop, maintain, and keep up to date a suite of costing & efficiency reports and in a variety of formats and support training to ensure these reports benefit the Trust's decision-making processes. This includes the development of user-friendly dashboards e.g. Microsoft power BI reporting.
To assist the Head of Costing in promoting the benefits of Patient Level Costing and Service efficiency reporting information to Divisional Teams & developing clinical engagement.
Support the Head of Costing with costing information to support the Trust's planning processes, service changes, efficiency improvements and business cases.
About us
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just under 1000 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 5 GCSE's level 4 or equivalent including Maths and English
- Part qualified AAT or equivalent finance qualification at NVQ level 3
- AAT full qualification or equivalent finance qualification at NVQ level 4 (L4)
Desirable
- AAT full qualification or equivalent NVQ level 4
- Actively studying towards a CCAB qualification
- Degree level education
Experience
Essential
- Experience of computerised financial applications
- Understanding of accounting principles
- Experience of working effectively in a team
- Relevant experience of computerised financial applications (L4)
- Detailed understanding of accounting principles (L4)
- Management accountancy, financial accountancy or costing experience (L4)
Desirable
- Previous experience within NHS finance
- Management accountancy, financial accountancy or costing experience
- Experience of NHS costing systems (L4)
- Working experience of manipulation of data
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent IT skills specifically intermediate spread sheet techniques ie lookups, pivot tables, multilevel sorting, filtering calcs etc
- Proven ability to prioritise workload
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, including preparation and presentation of financial information
- Ability to work under pressure and demonstrate initiative
- Ability to design and adapt advanced spreadsheet and/or databases (L4)
- Ability to analyses and interpret basic information
- Ability to analyse and interpret financial information with a range of options. (L4)
Desirable
- Good understanding of current NHS issues
- Ability to analyse and interpret financial information
- Detailed knowledge of Microsoft Office specifically excel at advance level techniques
- Understanding of NHS PLICS costing
- SQL skills
- Microsoft Power BI or similar report writing skills
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Team Worker
- Proactive
- Motivated to work in the NHS
- Caring
- Confident with a positive attitude.
- Professional work approach
Demonstrates DSFS and Trust Values
Essential
- Responsive - Reliable - Resourceful - Respectful
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 5 GCSE's level 4 or equivalent including Maths and English
- Part qualified AAT or equivalent finance qualification at NVQ level 3
- AAT full qualification or equivalent finance qualification at NVQ level 4 (L4)
Desirable
- AAT full qualification or equivalent NVQ level 4
- Actively studying towards a CCAB qualification
- Degree level education
Experience
Essential
- Experience of computerised financial applications
- Understanding of accounting principles
- Experience of working effectively in a team
- Relevant experience of computerised financial applications (L4)
- Detailed understanding of accounting principles (L4)
- Management accountancy, financial accountancy or costing experience (L4)
Desirable
- Previous experience within NHS finance
- Management accountancy, financial accountancy or costing experience
- Experience of NHS costing systems (L4)
- Working experience of manipulation of data
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent IT skills specifically intermediate spread sheet techniques ie lookups, pivot tables, multilevel sorting, filtering calcs etc
- Proven ability to prioritise workload
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, including preparation and presentation of financial information
- Ability to work under pressure and demonstrate initiative
- Ability to design and adapt advanced spreadsheet and/or databases (L4)
- Ability to analyses and interpret basic information
- Ability to analyse and interpret financial information with a range of options. (L4)
Desirable
- Good understanding of current NHS issues
- Ability to analyse and interpret financial information
- Detailed knowledge of Microsoft Office specifically excel at advance level techniques
- Understanding of NHS PLICS costing
- SQL skills
- Microsoft Power BI or similar report writing skills
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Team Worker
- Proactive
- Motivated to work in the NHS
- Caring
- Confident with a positive attitude.
- Professional work approach
Demonstrates DSFS and Trust Values
Essential
- Responsive - Reliable - Resourceful - Respectful
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
