Clinical Finance and Business Manager

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Working Full Time: 37.5 Hours Per Week

For the position of Clinical Finance & Business Manager, we are seeking an experienced finance professional, CCAB qualified with a minimum of 2 years working at a senior level, to support the Trust in delivering its challenging agenda.

Reporting to the Head of Financial Management, you will provide financial management knowledge and information to Divisions and to the Trust as a whole, to assist in the production of timely, accurate and relevant information for the completion of the monthly board reports.

The role will require the successful applicant to be able to work as part of a team and independently as required.

The candidate should possess excellent communication skills. Experience in the use of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint) is also a requirement for the post.

If you feel ready for this challenge, then we look forward to receiving your application.

To provide expert business and financial management knowledge and information to a Clinical Division and to the Trust as a whole. Assessing risk and alignment to overall Trust objectives to ensure long term financial viability.

To develop financial knowledge and awareness within the Division ensuring long term financial stability and viability. To identify the training needs of Division staff and to deliver as appropriate.

The post-holder will be an integral part of the Divisions Team working closely with clinicians, managers, and other budget holders, performing a key role in the success and development of the Divisions, communicating effectively at all levels.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.

The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.