Job summary
Welcome from Sarah Riley - Finance Director - RMCH.
RMCH is a leading organisation with an exciting agenda both locally and nationally and as such we are looking for a like-minded colleague who will be proactive and have a desire to be apart of the team and engage with our organisation to drive forward changes.
This is an exciting time to be joining our team and by joining RMCH, you can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
Main duties of the job
To support the Deputy Finance Business Partner to maintain Hospital budgets. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the Hospital budgets for which they are responsible are maintained to a high standard. Robust and regular communication with budget holders, providing high quality and timely financial advice and support to multidisciplinary Divisional and Directorate teams (including clinicians, ward managers and budget holders) to enable the delivery of the Hospital's financial objectives.
The post holder will provide support to the divisional Deputy Finance Business Partner as part of both business-as-usual financial reporting and specific projects.
Personal and team development are key values we support, and the department is keen to grow and develop to help better meet the challenges for RMCH, MFT and the wider NHS.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. It is essential that you use the supporting information section to tell us how you meet the criteria in the person specification. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. It is essential that you use the supporting information section to tell us how you meet the criteria in the person specification. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
comparison to person spec
Essential
- Professional qualification to certificate level or equivalent
- Applied knowledge of financial and budgetary management
- Demonstrable Management Accounts experience
- Detailed understanding and application of relevant software
- Strong IT skills in MS Office and particularly Excel
- Communication, Interpersonal and influencing skills
- Able to interpret and analyse complex financial info / problems
- Flexible worker
- deadline focused
- attention to detail
- proven team worker
Desirable
- prior user of Integra ledger
- demonstrable experience in acute NHS financial management role
- demonstrates understanding of current issues in NHS
- identify and take responsibility for self-development needs
- customer first focus
Person Specification
comparison to person spec
Essential
- Professional qualification to certificate level or equivalent
- Applied knowledge of financial and budgetary management
- Demonstrable Management Accounts experience
- Detailed understanding and application of relevant software
- Strong IT skills in MS Office and particularly Excel
- Communication, Interpersonal and influencing skills
- Able to interpret and analyse complex financial info / problems
- Flexible worker
- deadline focused
- attention to detail
- proven team worker
Desirable
- prior user of Integra ledger
- demonstrable experience in acute NHS financial management role
- demonstrates understanding of current issues in NHS
- identify and take responsibility for self-development needs
- customer first focus
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.
