Job summary
An exciting career opportunity has arisen for a Finance Business Partner to join our finance team at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, supporting our Corporate Services and Estates & Facilities Management directorates. Inspired by the Trust's Our Journey to Change we have started to embark on developing our 'Finance Journey to Change', making this a great time for you to consider joining us.
The Finance teams include many passionate, highly skilled, professional and experienced colleagues who put people at the heart of everything we do. We are ambitious and want to continuously improve, whether that supports improved patient outcomes in providing high quality support to our Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism services, value for money or colleague experience, and we want someone who shares that sense of ambition and energy to deliver the change.
Main duties of the job
Working with the Head of Financial Management, the Finance Business Partner will manage the financial management activities for the Corporate and Estates & Facilities Management directorates to support delivery of the in-year financial position and contribute to all financial reporting including in year monitoring returns to NHS England / Improvement (NHSE/I), Board and Committees, Senior Leadership Team and Financial Sustainability Board. In addition to this they will contribute to the financial planning activities in respect of the Corporate Services and EFM directorates including overall operational and longer-term financial plans for the Corporate Services and EFM directorates to ensure the delivery of key financial targets / regulatory requirements.
About us
The post holder will, as part of the finance leadership team, play a key role in promoting an organisational culture that actively promotes the Trust's Vision and Values and positively engages staff, service users and other stakeholders in quality improvement and service transformation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you would like to join us on our journey, Paul Roth, our Head of Financial Management would welcome having a conversation with you. Should you wish to discuss the role and job description further with Paul please contact him at paulroth@nhs.net to arrange an appointment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you would like to join us on our journey, Paul Roth, our Head of Financial Management would welcome having a conversation with you. Should you wish to discuss the role and job description further with Paul please contact him at paulroth@nhs.net to arrange an appointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB qualified accountant with professional registration
- Post graduate qualification of equivalent evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Quality improvement techniques
Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience at a senior level in the NHS
- Proven experience of financial management within a large organisation
- Proven experience of managing teams to deliver complex change programmes and supporting operational services to release financial efficiencies
- Experience of presenting complex issues to wide and non-financial audiences
- Previous experience of involvement in complex projects including the provision of strategic and business case planning advice
- Experience of line management
- Excellent project management skills
- Key knowledge of NHS financial and management accounting policies
Knowledge
Essential
- Maintain specialist knowledge through CPD
- Knowledge of NHS FT regime and reporting requirements
Desirable
- Broad understanding of current political climate
Skills
Essential
- Ability to establish good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Can lead, motivate and inspire others
- Has strong analytic, numeric and critical reasoning skills and capable of effective problem-solving
- Evidence of dealing with highly complex, highly sensitive or contentious information affecting large groups of people
- Advanced influencing, negotiating, persuasion, communication and presentation skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB qualified accountant with professional registration
- Post graduate qualification of equivalent evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Quality improvement techniques
Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience at a senior level in the NHS
- Proven experience of financial management within a large organisation
- Proven experience of managing teams to deliver complex change programmes and supporting operational services to release financial efficiencies
- Experience of presenting complex issues to wide and non-financial audiences
- Previous experience of involvement in complex projects including the provision of strategic and business case planning advice
- Experience of line management
- Excellent project management skills
- Key knowledge of NHS financial and management accounting policies
Knowledge
Essential
- Maintain specialist knowledge through CPD
- Knowledge of NHS FT regime and reporting requirements
Desirable
- Broad understanding of current political climate
Skills
Essential
- Ability to establish good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Can lead, motivate and inspire others
- Has strong analytic, numeric and critical reasoning skills and capable of effective problem-solving
- Evidence of dealing with highly complex, highly sensitive or contentious information affecting large groups of people
- Advanced influencing, negotiating, persuasion, communication and presentation skills
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
