Senior Management Accountant - Costing

Job summary

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has a vacancy for the role of Senior Management Accountant - Costing.

We are looking for a candidate who is keen to develop a career in NHS finance and we will actively support you with this. The successful candidate will work closely alongside Financial Planning & Analysis, Financial Recovery and Project teams.

The role will provide support the Assistant Finance Manager - Costing, in managing the development and implementation of Service Level Reporting (SLR), Patient Level Costing (PLICs) and will assist in the submission of the National Cost Collection (NCC).

The Trust is expanding it's costing function in order to support a programme of work focused on developing robust costing models and project financials. The ultimate goal to utilise data driven insights to inform decision-making across the Trust and support the creation of a sustainable financial recovery pipeline.

Main duties of the job

Assist and support Assistant Finance Manager - Costing in the development and implementation of the Trust's Patient Level Information Costing System (PLICS), Service Line Reporting (SLR) tools and The Costing Transformation Programme.

Assist and support with the successful submission of the yearly National Cost Collection whilst complying with national guidance and working continuously to improve the quality and accuracy of data submitted

Support the development of benchmarking and make use of benchmarking tools to aid efficiency and improvement within service areas. Contribute to promoting the use of Model Hospital and other benchmarking tools

Where areas of data quality has been identified, work with finance, operational and clinical staff to cleanse, refine or manipulate data, for it to be successfully incorporated into the costing system and meet costing standard requirements

Assist the Assistant Finance Manager - Costing with complex patient level analysis, provide appropriate data needed to undertake this analysis and follow up on agreed actions

Assist with the provision and development of various reports designed to communicate PLICS/SLR information to operational managers, clinicians, divisional and Trust boards.

Keep up to date with National Costing Standards, assist with their implementation and incorporation within the costing model

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

You would be joining a vibrant and enthusiastic Finance team at a challenging and interesting time with financial recovery and sustainability as a priority. Alongside the wider Finance department our teams are based at the Basingstoke site but currently benefit from hybrid working arrangements and are expected at times to travel to one of our other two sites.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £600 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Tackling Climate Change:Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, searchHHFT Climate Actionor contactclimateaction@hhft.nhs.uk.