Description:
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSBILITIES
- Provide training to finance and non-financial managers within the Trust on all matters relating to income and contracting; including effective use of information systems/reports.
LINE MANAGEMENT/SUPERVISORY/MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
- Oversee and allocate work to junior staff members within the department and provide training within own areas of work, enabling them to develop in accordance with their KSF outline.
- Manage the workload of junior staff members, ensuring departmental objectives are delivered and deadlines achieved.
- Ensure procedure notes associated for junior staff members within the department are keep updated and accurately reflect current practice.
- To line manage junior staff members within the department, ensuring that appraisal, mandatory training and personal development plans, are carried out within policy timescales.
- Upon occasion deputise for the Head of Income & Contracting where necessary, which can include representing the Trust at external meetings and updating the Head of Income & Contracting, as well as informing of issues which require their overall decision / agreement.
FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Support the Head of Income & Contracting with investment appraisal analysis options relating to systems required to legitimately optimise, realise and accurately report and monitor income.
- Ensure that the use of information technology contributes to improving the processes and documenting, monitoring and reporting of the team.
RESEARCH & AUDIT
- Support the Head of Income & Contracting with:
- Internal audit requirements associated with income and contracting,
- External audit requirements associated with income and contracting,
- Routine audits requirements associated with contracting (e.g. Data validations, activity query notices),
- Add Hoc audit requirements associated with income and contracting,
- Imminently advise the Head of Income & Contracting:
- On changes in advice and guidance from NHS Regulators and other organisations regarding Clinical and Non-Clinical income.
Please refer to job description for detailed responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified CCAB / CIMA Accountant or Masters in Health Informatics or in a mathematical related subject.
Desirable criteria
- Member of professional organisation e.g. ASSIST: IHM, UK CHIP
- To have a business qualification entailing legal elements within its curriculum
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience working within NHS Income & Contracting Department or within Information Department, conducting statistical analysis.
- Experience of interpreting and working with specialist financial guidance
- Specialist and highly experienced in routinely using healthcare contractual SLA monitoring systems and SQL server software and/or statistical packages
- Specialist experience routinely working with & applying identification rules for prescribed specialised services
- Specialist knowledge & detailed understanding of NHS contracting regime
- Specialist knowledge & detailed understanding of the National Tariff Payment System regime.
- Experience of analysing, investigating, reconciling, problem solving & interpreting detailed & highly complex information & queries for presentation and discussing to a range of users
Desirable criteria
- To have worked in a legal environment involving contractual issues
- Experience of using financial ledger systems.
- Experience of using patient based clinical information systems (PAS) systems
- Experience of using healthcare pathway systems (e.g. Medway Maternity System).
- In-depth knowledge if the main aspects of NHS Finance.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work with both financial & non-financial staff at all levels in an NHS organisation & externally, advising on complex financial & contractual matters.
- Ability to discuss complex financial, contractual and non-financial matters to a wide variety of internal & external stakeholders.
- Staff management skills.
- Ability to report & present financial, contractual and non-financial information to both finance & non-finance individuals (internal and external).
- Ability to be both team leader & team player.
- Ability to work without supervision & to deliver extremely challenging deadlines, clearly presenting assumptions made.
- Ability to interpret & implement NHS national guidance at local level across the organisation and externally.
- The ability to switch between complex tasks.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, & ability to maintain effective working relationships, both internal and external.
- Excellent negotiating skills and experience
- Strong IT skills & experience using Microsoft Office suite & able to develop & use IT appropriately to meet given objectives.