Finance Business Partner

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP)

Finance Business Partner : Income and Financial Reporting Accountant

£50,952 - £57,349 plus excellent NHS Benefits

Part time hours by discussion

About Us

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) provides healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism in inpatient and community-based settings. We service a population of around 1.8 million across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire.

We work hard to improve our services, to listen to and understand patients, carers and staff and to co-produce the changes we make. We are proud of the comprehensive range of services we offer and the compassionate care our staff provide. We remain committed to working in partnership with service users, carers, healthcare system partners, other healthcare providers, the police, criminal justice system, local authorities and a wide range of voluntary sector organisations to ensure we can be responsive to individual needs.

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) are working together to transform AWP to become an outstanding provider of services in well run Integrated Care Systems.

The role

AWP is looking to recruit a new role to their Finance team -Income and Financial Reporting Accountant.

Reporting to the Head of Financial Accounting, Treasury and Finance Systems, you will manage a small team and will ensure that all matters relating to income and capital accounting are carried out in a timely and accurate manner communicating with NHSE and DOH to ensure all information meets appropriate standards.

The Income and Financial Reporting Accountant will also be responsible for the production of accurate and timely financial accounts and reports throughout the year, providing instruction and guidance to finance staff to ensure all information is produced in accordance with regulations and appropriate accounting standards.

The post holder will be expected to use high level technical, analytical, interpersonal and negotiating skills to develop excellent working relationships with a wide range of internal and external managers across NHS Organisations and the wider system.

About you

To succeed in this role at AWP you will:

• Be a qualified accountant with senior finance experience in a medium to large organisation; be use to providing financial information in short time scales and making sound assumptions and judgements to ensure this happens in a robust way.
• Experience of NHS Finances and knowledge of NHS Income desirable
• Have experience of leading a small team and be familiar with highly technical financial information, income and capital accounting, budget setting and report writing.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and demonstrable experience in working with operational teams and other corporate functions to deliver a mature rounded service.

The benefits

In return for your hard work and dedication you will enjoy a wide variety of benefits including:

*Band 8a salary package starting at £50,952 increasing to £57,349

*27 - 33 days holiday (excl bank holidays based on length of NHS service)

*Hybrid and flexible working available

• Standard NHS pension and other associated benefits

NHS Experience is certainly not a prerequisite for this role and we would welcome applications from all sectors. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles as diversity strengthens our teams.

For more information on this role please contact our retained consultant Nicola Shaw at Morgan Law on 07554 443 877 or to apply please send a CV to