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Job summary

Main area
Finance
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
214-CEN-6242897
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King's Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton in Ashfield
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/05/2024 23:59

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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Deputy Finance Manager

NHS AfC: Band 6

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Deputy Finance Managers within our Financial Management Team, supporting the clinical divisions and corporate services.  

@Finance SFH are multi-award winning. Our recent successes include East Midlands 2022 Large Finance Team of the Year Winners and SFH Staff Excellence winners.

An enthusiastic, positive attitude and approach to work is essential, as is a determination to drive value for patients and tax payers. If you are a team player who can demonstrate excellent personal qualities such as integrity, self-awareness & self-management, compassion & care and resilience then @FinanceSFH is the perfect place for you to come and work.

The successful candidates will be welcomed into our Future Focused Finance accredited level 3 team with a strong focus on wellbeing, collaboration, reflection and continuous improvement. We pride ourselves on the relationships with our stakeholders and aim to provide a finance function which will empower Sherwood Forest Hospitals to deliver the best healthcare possible.

Reporting to one of the Senior Divisional Finance Managers, the successful candidates will be responsible for contributing to a comprehensive financial management and support service to divisions and corporate services, providing key business and financial support to these areas.

Main duties of the job

Please see the job description and person specification for full details of the requirements for this excellent opportunity.

Working for our organisation

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journals Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated Kings Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification for full details of the requirements for this excellent opportunity.

Person specification

Personal Values

Essential criteria
  • Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s values
  • Must be able to demonstrate a strength in conviction of personal values, to ensure those within the service also demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s values and standards

Communications and Relationships Skills

Essential criteria
  • Possess excellent verbal & written communication skills and the ability to convey complex financial issues to non-finance managers
  • Be able to demonstrate a commitment to quality and customer focused service
  • Demonstrate tact, diplomacy, confidentiality.

Knowledge Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Excellent working knowledge of MS Office
  • Good business management, project management and administrative skills.
  • Extensive knowledge of a computerised ledger system, spreadsheets and databases.
  • Working knowledge of finance regulations and statutory requirements.
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of current issues in the NHS and the changing nature of healthcare provision
  • Knowledge and understanding of NHS finance, policies and procedures
  • Knowledge and understanding of benchmarking techniques and sources of benchmarking information
  • Knowledge and understanding of the NHS Transformation and efficiency agenda

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • AAT Qualified, or CCAB part qualified, or studying, willing to study (or qualified by experience on exceptional basis)
  • Post graduate diploma or level 6 equivalent qualification.
Desirable criteria
  • Educated to degree level (or equivalent)

Further Training

Essential criteria
  • Continuous commitment to personal and departmental development.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in a busy financial management environment
  • Experience of financial ledger systems and advanced spreadsheets
Desirable criteria
  • Working within NHS finance

Analytical and Judgemental Skills

Essential criteria
  • Possess numerical and analytical skills, including the ability to assimilate & interpret complex data and make resultant judgements
  • Ability to convey financial issues and complex data to non-financial staff
  • Be able to understand and implement financial management policies and internal control procedures and determine changes to practices for own area
  • Ability to work within policies and procedures with a high degree of autonomy
Desirable criteria
  • The ability to undertake training sessions on finance matters to non-specialists

Planning and Organisational Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a wider team
  • Ability to plan, organise and achieve objectives/tasks set within specified time frames
  • Possess excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage and prioritise conflicting demands
  • Capacity to concentrate to complete tasks in a busy office or home environment and demonstrates attention to detail

Contractual Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work flexibly to ensure deadlines are met.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sandra Chapman
Job title
Senior Divisional Finance Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01623622515
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