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Working Full time: 37.5 hours per week
The successful applicant will be the Finance lead for projects, as directed by the Senior Finance team. You will interpret and present financial information to Clinicians and Managers, and take individual responsibility for managing and delivering specific complex financial and management objectives.
* To provide in depth specialist advice and support to all levels of Senior Management within the Trust in support of key projects as directed by the Senior Finance team.
* Undertake ad-hoc projects and multi-faceted service development projects ensuring the financial consequences are identified and modelled.
* To provide financial support to the strategic agenda of the Trust ensuring financial implications are captured and managed.
* To conduct service line reviews identifying opportunities and areas for improvement and to work with Divisional Directors and Business Performance Managers to implement change.
* To lead on the collaborations currently in place with partner organisations and support the development of new partnership arrangements.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
* The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
* Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
* Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Fullwood Job title: Head of Income, Costing and Projects Email address: helen.fullwood@nhs.net Telephone number: 01244 362194
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Accounting/Auditing and Finance
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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