Senior Income Accountant
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Job summary
At Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT), we are committed to delivering high-quality healthcare services for the communities we serve. Our mission is to provide outstanding care through innovation, collaboration, and an unwavering focus on continuous improvement.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital has embarked on a significant transformation and modernisation of how it records clinical activity by implementing Oracle Cerner Millennium. This will revolutionise the way clinical data and activity are being recorded and accessed.
The Trust is now seeking to attract a highly motivated, ambitious and enthusiastic individual as Senior Income Accountant to understand the activity coming out of the new system and work closely with operational and information colleagues on a 12-month Fixed Term or secondment. You will be working in Finance department.
This is an excellent opportunity for those wanting to be part of an enthusiastic and pro-active team and positively contribute to the development of the department and drive forward change. Development of a service orientated culture is at the heart of finance department and you can expect to engage with colleagues, whose role is to support clinical teams, on a regular basis and so well-developed communication skills will be essential.
Main duties of the job
Project management of the entire process of understanding the data flow from legacy systems to the Oracle Electronic Health Records (EHR), internally known as AlexHealth, output. This will require comparing data from Alex Health and what the Trust traditionally received from other systems and talking to key stakeholders about any variances.
The post holder will work with other stakeholders and advising on the data quality improvement to the Trust's Executive Management Team
Lead and develop the process of activity reconciliation with clinical and operational heads in understanding what has been delivered against what is being reported. The post holder will be involved in gathering and understanding highly complex data and their sources and using extensive data manipulation skills to report in a standardised format.
Work with the strategy team in understanding data and advise the New Hospital Programme on the clinical activity data from Alex Health
Work with Oracle implementation and workstream leads to ensure that Cerner activity outputs reflect what was intended and how the activity was delivered and jointly work out a plan to address any issues with operational, income and clinical teams. Understand different workflows for different types of activity.
About us
Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
Details
Date posted
27 November 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£62,215 to £72,293 a year Per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
292-6795621-CORP
Job locations
Kao Park 2
London Road
Harlow
CM17 9NA
Employer details
Employer name
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Address
Kao Park 2
London Road
Harlow
CM17 9NA
Employer's website
https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
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