Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the position of Financial Sustainability Accountant. working across Finance and Project Management Office supporting the provision of financial business partnering within Financial Sustainability and Delivering Value, ensuring compliance with statutory obligations, professional accounting standards, internal control and the achievement of financial targets of the Trust.
Main duties of the job
· Be required to work closely with multiple internal and external stakeholders, supporting providing consistent financial support to services, using best practice to influence decision making schemes identify, quantify, plan and track.
·Being accountable for accurate reporting both internal and external for all elements of Delivering Value.
·Being responsible for costing/re-costing delivering value schemes and supporting teams achieving their individual savings targets and time frames. – taking idea through from start to finish and unblock challenges faced.
·Deputising for Head of Finance – Corporate and Financial Sustainability responsible for ensuring the provision of efficient and effective financial information and advice for Trust wide Financial Sustainability and Delivering value.
If you are a team player who wants to make a real positive difference, then we would really like to hear from you.
For an informal discussion please email Ryan Chawner on R
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have coproduced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
We are kind.
We are respectful.
We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High Cost Area Supplement – Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941 per annum (pro rata for part time).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as possible as some posts close early to limit the number of applications.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. CCAB fully qualified (or equivalent experience)with significant post qualification experience
2. Working experience in a managerial role
3. Experience of working in a public sector at a senior role
Experience
Essential criteria
4. Experience of staff management
5. Experience in working with Delivering value schemes.
6. Experience of implementing change in financial systems, processes and procedures
Knowledge
Essential criteria
7. Experience of preparing, writing and presenting to non financial leaders
8. Able to work and influence senior managers and clinicians
9. Able to research and implement new process
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
10. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
11. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
12. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
13. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.