Job summary
- The role will support the Service Improvement & Costing Accountant and and play a key role in the continuous improvement of costing information in the Trust, making it more comprehensive, accurate, and efficient to produce.
- They will work independently on a number of aspects of the costing process, such as ensuring data requirements are reflected in the costing system; interpreting and implementing national costing standards around areas such as overheads; and running the costing model on a quarterly basis for internal SLR reporting.
- They will support the Service Improvement & Costing Accountant in the development of the Trust's SLR reporting process and service engagement; and other ad-hoc costing-related projects as required.
- They will be crucial in supporting in the production of regular SLR / PLICS reports, annual mandatory national costing returns such as the National Cost Collection (NCC) and Costing Assessment Tool (CAT), as well as varied ad hoc costing information as required by a wide range of stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
- Assist in the production and distribution of the Service Line Reporting (SLR) reports for the Trust.
- Support with the accurate and timely production of the Trust's National Cost Collection (NCC) submission, ensuring they are prepared in line with NHS guidance and in accordance with specified submission timetables.
- Assist in the production and analysis of costing data, including service reviews. This will involve working with a range of stakeholders to gain a shared understanding of clinical practice and agree, implement, and monitor actions. The purpose of these is to improve value for patients and their families.
- Deal with ad hoc costing requests and liaise with key stakeholders including clinicians, service managers, Finance, Informatics, HR and provide them with good quality costing information.
- Maintain, refine, and develop processes within the costing system including complex cost apportionments in line with the Approved Costing Guidance.
- Assist in the completion of other costing returns such as the Costing Assessment Tool (CAT) and other ad hoc benchmarking exercises.
- Remain up to date with national costing standards and how they affect the Trust.
- Liaise with Informatics to ensure the timely production of data feeds into the PLICS system, ensuring they are compliant with requirements of the Costing Transformation Programme (CTP).
- To perform any other duties as may be delegated from time to time.
About us
This is an exciting opportunity to join and contribute to a forward thinking, innovative organisation and join our award-winning team:
- 2017 HFMA Finance Team of the year
- 2020 HFMA Value and Innovation
- 2020 Havelock Training (It recognises best practice in thetrainingand development of finance staff or the raising of financial awareness and skills within the wider non-financial workforce)
We are proud of and value all members of our team. We have an ethos and strategy of being the Number One Place to work and this is underpinned by our One Team Goal agenda. Our mission statement is "delivering Financial and Procurement Intelligence and Excellence for Alder Hey" and this is recognised by our Level 3 finance skills development accreditation.
Our teams are working in a modern agile way utilising a mixture of desks and co-creation spaces. All team members have laptops and work flexibly in both the office, other areas of the Trust or at home. We also have state of the art technology using the most up to date financial ledger -Oracle Cloud - and Microsoft Office 365. Our teams are well integrated into the wider Trust and are well respected by all the Divisional Management Teams and Executive Directors.
In line with the Trust's Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- The post holder reports to the Service Improvement & Costing Accountant and ensures that information systems are in place to deliver patient level costing in a timely and accurate manner for the Trusts Patient Level Information and Costing System (PLICS).
- The post holder will liaise with the Informatics Team to ensure the timely production of data feeds into the PLICS system, ensuring they are compliant with requirements of the Costing Transformation Programme (CTP).
- To maintain, refine and develop processes within the costing system including complex cost apportionments in line with the Approved Costing Guidance.
- Provide activity and financial information from the costing system to all levels of the organisation linking into financial planning, production of business cases etc and ensuring efficient and effective use of Trust resources and to communicate the costing strategy across the trust.
- To assist in the production and analysis of costing data, including service reviews. This will involve working with a range of stakeholders to gain a shared understanding of clinical practice and agree, implement, and monitor actions. The purpose of these is to improve value for patients and their families.
- Support with the accurate and timely production of the Trusts National Cost Collection (NCC) submission, ensuring they are prepared in line with NHS guidance and in accordance with specified submission timetables.
- To assist in the production and distribution of the Service Line Reporting (SLR) reports for the Trust.
- Engage in the process of production and assessment of benchmarking information across the Trust.
- Dealing with ad hoc costing requests and liaising with key stakeholders including clinicians, service managers, Finance, Informatics, HR and providing them with good quality costing information. Also, to liaise with stakeholders to ensure the costing system is reflective of trust services.
- Assist in the completion of other costing returns such as the Costing Assessment Tool (CAT), pilot submissions and other ad hoc benchmarking exercises with NHS England or other trusts.
- To remain up to date with national costing standards and how they affect the Trust.
- To perform any other duties as may be delegated from time to time
Job description
Job responsibilities
- The post holder reports to the Service Improvement & Costing Accountant and ensures that information systems are in place to deliver patient level costing in a timely and accurate manner for the Trusts Patient Level Information and Costing System (PLICS).
- The post holder will liaise with the Informatics Team to ensure the timely production of data feeds into the PLICS system, ensuring they are compliant with requirements of the Costing Transformation Programme (CTP).
- To maintain, refine and develop processes within the costing system including complex cost apportionments in line with the Approved Costing Guidance.
- Provide activity and financial information from the costing system to all levels of the organisation linking into financial planning, production of business cases etc and ensuring efficient and effective use of Trust resources and to communicate the costing strategy across the trust.
- To assist in the production and analysis of costing data, including service reviews. This will involve working with a range of stakeholders to gain a shared understanding of clinical practice and agree, implement, and monitor actions. The purpose of these is to improve value for patients and their families.
- Support with the accurate and timely production of the Trusts National Cost Collection (NCC) submission, ensuring they are prepared in line with NHS guidance and in accordance with specified submission timetables.
- To assist in the production and distribution of the Service Line Reporting (SLR) reports for the Trust.
- Engage in the process of production and assessment of benchmarking information across the Trust.
- Dealing with ad hoc costing requests and liaising with key stakeholders including clinicians, service managers, Finance, Informatics, HR and providing them with good quality costing information. Also, to liaise with stakeholders to ensure the costing system is reflective of trust services.
- Assist in the completion of other costing returns such as the Costing Assessment Tool (CAT), pilot submissions and other ad hoc benchmarking exercises with NHS England or other trusts.
- To remain up to date with national costing standards and how they affect the Trust.
- To perform any other duties as may be delegated from time to time
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Part-qualified accountant (CIMA, CIPFA, ACCA or equivalent professional accountancy qualification, to post-graduate diploma level).
Desirable
- Fully qualified or final stage student.
Experience
Essential
- Significant NHS Finance experience (or other relevant public sector body)
- Experience in a financial management or analytical role
- Experience of dealing with, managing and interpreting large datasets
Desirable
- Significant experience of working within costing/SLR within the NHS or public sector
Skills
Essential
- IT expertise, especially in relation to Microsoft Excel and working with databases so as to develop and support the provision of information to stakeholders
- Strong analytical and reasoning skills including the ability to identify patterns in complex data and linkages supported by attention to detail.
Desirable
- Proficient in the use of SQL
- Experience of using Power BI or creating dashboards
Personal attributes
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively, via a variety of media and forums with a wide range of people from all levels both within and outside of the Trust. Confident manner with excellent communication skills with ability to converse with wide-ranging groups of people.
- Well organised, able to prioritise own workload to deliver to tight deadlines
- Can demonstrate ability to work under own initiative. Adaptable and flexible, with responsive approach to problem solving.
- Enthusiastic and motivated to learn
Desirable
- Ability to report and present financial information to both finance and non finance individuals (internal and external).
- Able to develop systems and processes to improve efficiency and streamline processes.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of current NHS finance regime
- Sound understanding of accounting principles and application of financial reporting
Desirable
- Knowledge of activity-based costing systems such as IQVIA UserCost
- Knowledge of National Cost Collection (NCC) or patient-level costing (PLICS)
- Knowledge of NHS Costing Standards and guidance.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Part-qualified accountant (CIMA, CIPFA, ACCA or equivalent professional accountancy qualification, to post-graduate diploma level).
Desirable
- Fully qualified or final stage student.
Experience
Essential
- Significant NHS Finance experience (or other relevant public sector body)
- Experience in a financial management or analytical role
- Experience of dealing with, managing and interpreting large datasets
Desirable
- Significant experience of working within costing/SLR within the NHS or public sector
Skills
Essential
- IT expertise, especially in relation to Microsoft Excel and working with databases so as to develop and support the provision of information to stakeholders
- Strong analytical and reasoning skills including the ability to identify patterns in complex data and linkages supported by attention to detail.
Desirable
- Proficient in the use of SQL
- Experience of using Power BI or creating dashboards
Personal attributes
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively, via a variety of media and forums with a wide range of people from all levels both within and outside of the Trust. Confident manner with excellent communication skills with ability to converse with wide-ranging groups of people.
- Well organised, able to prioritise own workload to deliver to tight deadlines
- Can demonstrate ability to work under own initiative. Adaptable and flexible, with responsive approach to problem solving.
- Enthusiastic and motivated to learn
Desirable
- Ability to report and present financial information to both finance and non finance individuals (internal and external).
- Able to develop systems and processes to improve efficiency and streamline processes.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of current NHS finance regime
- Sound understanding of accounting principles and application of financial reporting
Desirable
- Knowledge of activity-based costing systems such as IQVIA UserCost
- Knowledge of National Cost Collection (NCC) or patient-level costing (PLICS)
- Knowledge of NHS Costing Standards and guidance.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
