Management Accountant

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The role is within the South West Hampshire locality finance team in Hampshire, Southampton & Isle of Wight CCG. We are seeking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic individual to work with us, to support the provision of sound financial management. This role will fit with the new hybrid working model of the CCG; providing the opportunity to work from home and attend face to face meetings at our office in Eastleigh when permitted.

We are looking for a part-qualified candidate or qualified by experience. We will consider applications from candidates who wish to work the minimum of 3 days per week (22.5 hours) up to full-time hours (37.5 hours). Salary would be paid on a pro-rata basis according to contracted hours.

The role will provide finance management support and advice to the management of commissioning budgets as part of the South West locality finance team. The key elements will be providing monthly reporting, supporting Primary Care, mental health, financial advice, budget setting, analysis of efficiency schemes and variance analysis to budget holders.

Ensuring patients receive the care they need, in the right place and at the right time is the top priority for the Hampshire, Southampton and Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

The CCG serves a population of 1.66 million people and manages a budget of £3.5 billion. It is made up of five local place based teams; Fareham and Gosport and South Eastern Hampshire working in partnership with Portsmouth CCG and Portsmouth Hospital; North and Mid Hampshire working in partnership with Hampshire Hospitals; South West Hampshire and Southampton City working in partnership with Southampton, Dorset and Salisbury hospitals and theIsle of Wightwhere we work as an integrated care system.

The successful candidate will need to be flexible in approach, demonstrate a good ability to rapidly develop and maintain good working relationships with people from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds. You will need sound accounting and excel skills with attention to detail and consistent high quality of work. You will have a positive and can do approach, identify any future issues and suggest solutions for forward planning. You will need to have some knowledge, and ideally experience of working in the NHS and will have the ability work on own initiative and organise own workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales.

Hampshire, Southampton and IW CCG statement:

We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working.

We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life.

We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.

Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:

• 27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement

• NHS pension scheme

• Sick pay policy

• Occupational health services including staff counselling services

• Flexible working and family friendly policies

• Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers

• Health Service Discounts – offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.

Successful candidates will be subject to a six-month probationary period.

If you believe that you have the skills, knowledge and experience to be successful in this role and would like an informal discussion, please contact Jon Vaughan viajonathan.vaughan1@nhs.netor Marie Rouse onmarie.rouse@nhs.net.

Please note the following before applying:

1. We reserve the right to amend the closing date based on the volume of applications received. Vacancies attracting a high volume of applications may therefore close earlier than advertised.

2. In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.

3. As a Disability Confident Employer we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. As a CCG, we value diversity and are committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

4. If you are successful and are joining from a non-NHS background, there will be an expectation that you will be engaged from the bottom of the pay band. If you would like to review the Agenda for Change pay scales in more detail and to view other benefits of working in the NHS, please visit the Agenda for Change website for further details.

5. New employees to the CCG will be subject to a probationary period of six months (some exemptions apply, please refer to the CCGs policy for full details).