Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
DSFS Ltd based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital are looking to recruit into the role of Assistant Cost Accountant. This is a key role that supports the Head of Costing for both internal and external cost reporting specifically patient level costing and service efficiency and cost effectiveness.
Hybrid working is currently available for this role, once initial induction is completed, in addition to access to our flexi-time policy.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered.
Main duties of the job
1. Assist the Head of Costing in the control, maintenance & development of the Patient level Costing system.
2. Ensure the collection, formatting, validation, and inputting of activity and cost data to ensure the accurate and timely production of Trust costs.
3. Assist in the submission of the Trust's National Cost Collection, to meet NHSE deadlines ensuring compliance with NHSE costing guidance where possible and detailing where divergence is required.
4. Develop an understanding of the Trust's services in conjunction with the Head of Costing, the Divisions & Divisional Accountancy teams to accurately produce meaningful costs at various levels of granularity.
5. In conjunction with the Head of Costing, develop, maintain, and keep up to date a suite of costing & efficiency reports in a variety of formats and support training to ensure these reports benefit the Trust's decision-making processes. This includes the development of user-friendly dashboards e.g. Microsoft Power BI reporting.
6. Assist the Head of Costing in promoting the benefits of Patient Level Costing and Service efficiency reporting information to Divisional Teams & developing clinical engagement.
7. Support the Head of Costing with costing information to support the Trust's planning processes, service changes, efficiency improvements, and business cases.
About us
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just under 1000 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS is proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences, our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* 5 GCSE's level 4 or equivalent including Maths and English
* AAT full qualification or equivalent finance qualification at NVQ level 4 (L4)
* Actively studying towards a CCAB qualification
* Degree level education
Experience
* Experience of computerised financial applications
* Understanding of accounting principles
* Experience of working effectively in a team
* Relevant experience of computerised financial applications (L4)
* Management accountancy, financial accountancy or costing experience (L4)
* Previous experience within NHS finance
* Experience of NHS costing systems (L4)
* Working experience of manipulation of data
Skills and Knowledge
* Excellent IT skills specifically intermediate spreadsheet techniques (e.g., lookups, pivot tables, multilevel sorting, filtering calcs etc.)
* Proven ability to prioritise workload
* Effective written and verbal communication skills, including preparation and presentation of financial information
* Ability to work under pressure and demonstrate initiative
* Ability to design and adapt advanced spreadsheet and/or databases (L4)
* Ability to analyse and interpret financial information
* Good understanding of current NHS issues
* Detailed knowledge of Microsoft Office specifically Excel at advanced level techniques
* Understanding of NHS PLICS costing
* Microsoft Power BI or similar report writing skills
Personal Attributes
* Team Worker
* Proactive
* Motivated to work in the NHS
* Caring
* Confident with a positive attitude
* Professional work approach
Demonstrates DSFS and Trust Values
* Responsive - Reliable - Resourceful - Respectful
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.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Depending on experience Starting from £23,254 or £25,076 dependent on qualifications.
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