Costing Accountant – Development Role Into Costing Lead Full Time NEW

Costing Accountant – Development Role Into Costing Lead

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Finance Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Secondment: months Hours

• Full time
• Part time

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Want to make a real difference and have a truly rewarding career? Join ‘Team Derbyshire Healthcare’ and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people’s lives’.

We’ve been rated ‘good’ overall by the CQC, with some outstanding services. The CQC commented at our most recent inspection on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.

We are passionate about making equality, diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We take pride in our “People First Culture” which creates a workplace where everyone feels a genuine sense of belonging, difference is celebrated, and people are comfortable to bring their whole selves to work. We value the richness that comes from having colleagues that are fully representative of the local community. We welcome people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, protected characteristics, and with all backgrounds and experiences.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the costing team. This is a development role starting as a Costing Lead at B7 and progressing to a Costing Lead at B8a.

Main duties of the job

To provide costing information and advice to senior managers in the Trust and engage with external organisations and networks in relation to costing.

To complete all costing submissions for the Trust, including National Cost Collection (NCC) and the Costing Assessment Tool (CAT).

To update the costing systemin line with national requirements for example new Mental Health and Community currencies, Local Cost Collections (LCC).

To promote costing within the Trust and contribute to best practice in line with national requirements.

To maintain the accuracy of the Trust’s Patient Level Information and Costing System (PLICS), including liaison with the Trust informatics team and the Costing System Supplier.

To produce robust, timely and accurate Service Line Reports for senior managers within the Trust.

Working for our organisation

Join ‘Team Derbyshire Healthcare’ and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people’s lives’.

CQC rated us as ‘GOOD’ overall, commenting on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.”

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible

• days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to days after 5 years & days after years’ service

• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training

• Generous NHS pension scheme

• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits

• Health service discounts and online benefits

• Incremental pay progression

• Free confidential employee assistance programme /7

• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network

• Health and wellbeing opportunities

• Structured learning and development opportunities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Leadership and Management:

To have an in-depth knowledge of costing guidance, understand and interpret costing requirements for NHSE specific submissions and ensure that these are communicated, understood and applied to relevant returns and reports.

To work with the other sections in Finance Team to produce quality financial information.

To work with Information Management & Technology (IMT) colleagues to develop and improve data quality and reporting within the PLICS system.

Engage with managers and clinicians to ensure that costing apportionments and coding are correctly reflected in costing information.

Produce timely and accurate internal costing reports including service line reports.

Reporting to the Head of Finance postholder will compile and submit accurate mandatory annual National Cost Collection (NCC) data and associated reports eg. Costing Assessment Tool (CAT) and Costing Assurance Programme (CAP)

Maintain the accuracy of the costing system. Liaise with costing system supplier to ensure upgrades routinely installed, accuracy of data reported and optimal functionality of the costing system.

Develop the costing system in the Trust in line with national requirements for example new Mental Health and Community Currencies, Local Cost Collection (LCC) and for the development of the costing system to meet new requirements.

Provide the costing input to Trust projects including development and supporting the Trust’s PLICs working group.

Engage with national and local costing forums to participate in costing development and benchmarking.

Ensure systems and processes within the costing team are up to date.

Displays project management skills to ensure all projects, including those with conflicting deadlines are planned effectively and delivered successfully.

Responsible for contributing to Trust-wide financial strategy, policy and procedure and member of Senior Finance Team.

Responsible for recruitment and day to day management of own team

Clinical Governance / Quality Assurance:

Responsible for own and team’s compliance with audit recommendations

Ensure timely and accurate issue of costing information and reports to Trust managers and external organisations including NHSE

Education and Development:

Delivery of finance training to non-finance staff in the Trust

Professionally qualified accountant or studying for a professional qualification with the intention of being qualified within 2 years. Should undertake regular training and continuing professional development appropriate to their role and responsibilities

Ensures appropriate IPR process and PDPs are in place for all staff in their team

Demanding nature of the job.

Reporting to the Head of Finance post holder will manage and deliver on multiple complex high level tasks requiring contributions from many people.

Responsible for contributing to operational objectives for the department and their team and ensuring that the IPR process facilitates the delivery of these objectives

Maintaining up to date in-depth knowledge of relevant costing developments, guidance and requirements

Be aware of the ramifications of key changes in NHS financial regime in respect of costing and to support changes to custom and practice to help the Trust to continue to be financially stable before, during and after such changes have taken place. Escalate on risks to the Head of Finance.

Person specification

Essential / Desirable

Essential criteria

• Full Consultative Committee Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) recognised accountancy qualification or studying for a professional qualification with the intention of being qualified within 2 years
• If qualified full member of CCAB accounting body, if studying student member with appropriate record of continuing professional development allied to their qualification
• Ability to work under pressure and deal with concurrent and competing deadlines
• Possess a commitment to excellence
• Ability to work on own initiative but also as part of a team
• Possess numerical and analytical skills, including the ability to assimilate and interpret complex data and make resultant judgements
• Experience of working in a finance role
• Experience of working with computerised financial systems

Desirable criteria

• Degree
• Experience of staff management
• Experience of SQL
• Experience of NHS finance
• Ability to use power BI

Essential / Desirable

Essential criteria

• Very strong communication and presentations skills to effectively convey complex financial information both verbally and in written form to budget holders and senior managers
• Open to change and able to contribute to process reviews, suggesting new ways of working
• A strong technical mind which can assimilate and interpret highly complex information of both qualitative and quantitative nature.
• Excellent IT skills – proficient user of spreadsheet packages Excel for complex data analysis. Use of internet for research purposes to understand national policies and guidance
• As technological developments arise and are introduced, the post holder will be required to undertake any identified training for such products and to actively seek to maximise the use of technology to drive efficiencies
• Experience of costing
• Meeting the Trust Values
• Ability to progress into the Costing Lead Role within 2 years

Further details / informal visits contact

NameJoanne WilsonJob titleHead of FinanceEmail