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Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides integrated acute and community Healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and we are continually upgrading. Construction of the new integrated critical care unit was completed in 2018, extension of a Neonatal Unit and an approved plan to build a brand new, state of the art Emergency Department which commenced in 2021.
We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from multiple sites covering Walsall. Our multidisciplinary services include rapid response and home-based care, so that those with long term conditions and the frail elderly can remain in their own homes.
We are recommended by colleagues as a place to work which is supported by the trusts values to work as part of a team, being respectful, compassionate and professional. We are committed to investing in our workforce.
Following our recent CQC visit the Trust was rated as outstanding for care and this has been recognised by NHS Improvement.
The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including: salary sacrifice scheme; car leasing scheme; on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability); the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme; and the opportunity to develop and implement your expertise in an encouraging yet challenging environment.
We would particularly welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background and from people with a disability; these groups are currently under-represented at senior level, we value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a qualified Accountant or finalist to join the Income and Contracting team at Walsall Healthcare Trust taking the lead on income and activity monitoring / reporting and supporting the attainment of the Trust's financial performance.
The successful candidate will provide the Trust’s management teams with a high quality comprehensive financial advisory service on all aspects of Income and activity. Advising and influencing management teams, covering large and particularly high risk budgets, on the implications of highly complex financial strategy and policy on behalf of the Head of Income and Costing.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of the job is to:
1. Manage the routine production and reporting of finance and activity values for all Service Level Agreements (contracts) that the Trust has with NHS commissioners.
2. Develop and maintain finance & information systems/processes that support invoicing and debt control for Service Level Agreements.
3. Support the Head of Costing & Income in the derivation of contract prices and provide information to support Service Level Agreement (contract) negotiations and monitoring.
4. Reconciliation of Trust income & activity with SUS data, agree charges & refunds as appropriate.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
INCOME
1. Prepare highly complex monthly performance data for contract income to prescribed standards and timescales for internal and external stakeholders.
2. Analyse and explain significant variations from SLA contract income and activity plans. This involves making judgements on highly complex facts which requires analysis, interpretation & comparison of a range options.
3. Develop, maintain, refine and document local databases, spreadsheets and systems and processes for calculating, reporting and forecasting SLA /contract income for all Commissioners. Revise as necessary for annual changes in guidance/tariffs.
4. Provide monthly financial statements to commissioners on SLA income covering both PbR / NTPS and non-PbR against an agreed timescale, liaising with staff in information services and other departments to comply with National guidance, ensure that data is available so that agreed timescales can be met.
5. In liaison with the debtors function, raise invoices and credit notes as appropriate in order to recover income due from Commissioners – contracted and non -contracted.
6. Establish and maintain good working relationships through regular contact with ICBs, CSUs other organisations responsible for commissioning healthcare services.
7. Work closely with CSU, ICB and Information Services colleagues to reconcile SLAM data with CSU income data based on SUS and to minimise data queries. Highlight any consequent risks to income as early as possible in the process.
8. Ensure the integrity and consistency of financial coding within the general ledger i.e. income is properly coded.
9. Produce projections of activity & financial data (when required) to enable a realistic financial forecast to be generated. This will demand abilities in assessing and forming opinions around risk and imperfect information.
10. Support the Head of Costing & Income and Contracting and Costing Accountant in developing community based clinical services provided by the Trust into appropriate activity and currencies with healthcare commissioners.
11. Support with the production of Service Line Reporting from an income perspective and wider support on an ad hoc basis.
Person specification
* Have an accounting qualification or equivalent experience in an income or SUS monitoring teams.
* SQL experience.
Experience
* At least 5 years experience in a finance or equivalent function.
Technical / Experience
* Experience of amending technical reporting structures from year to year in line with changing requirements.
Please note your application will be transferred from the NHS Jobs system to internal Walsall Healthcare Trac System. All correspondence will be sent via Trac.
We are committed to operating flexible working practices wherever possible and committed to equal opportunities.
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