Job overview
The post holder will play a key role in supporting the Trust’s financial and performance management functions. The primary purpose of this role is to:
1. Monitor and analyse Trust activity and income against commissioner plans and non-contractual targets, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.
2. Produce high-quality reports that meet the needs of both commissioners and internal Trust managers, supporting informed decision-making.
3. Ensure compliance with Payment by Results (PbR) guidance, integrating it effectively into commissioning plans and activity recording processes.
4. Provide financial expertise to support the commissioning cycle, contributing to robust planning and performance evaluation.
This role requires strong analytical skills, a deep understanding of NHS financial frameworks, and the ability to communicate complex information clearly to a range of stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
Contract Monitoring:
5. Ensure activity related income position is accurately reported and that this information is communicated to commissioners, Trust board and senior managers of the Trust. Work to ensure continued improvement in the process.
6. Lead the Income Team to ensure that the Trust is billing all the moneys which it is due and fully understands the sources of its income both by customer and income stream.
7. Ensure the agreed commissioning plans with PCTs are reflecting the in general ledger, and that performance against these plans is accurately reported.
Commissioning:
8. To be the Trust’s expert on Payment by Results (PbR); interpreting National Guidance and advising the Head of Financial Planning / Associate Director of Contracts and Strategy on implementation and other courses of action
9. To lead on DoH PbR road testing and sense checking, analysing and understanding changes to PbR structures and tariffs.
Other:
10. To offer expert knowledge of NHS financial and accounting procedures, legislation, NHS financial policy and the financial impacts of NHS policies as they relate to income.
11. Liaise with Finance colleagues from outside the Trust to undertake benchmarking exercises to improve efficiency.
12. Provide the Trusts Costing Team is given accurate income and activity information to enable the production of patient level costing and service line reporting information.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search or .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the Job Description and Personal Specification for further information about this post.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
13. CCAB Professional Qualification
14. Minimum of 1 year post CCAB qualification or equivalent experience
15. Up to date knowledge of Accounting Standards
Desirable criteria
16. Ideally 2 years post CCAB qualification experience
17. CPD record complying with membership of relative accounting body
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
18. Over 5 years general accounting experience in a large and complex organisation(s)
19. Extensive knowledge and understanding of the current NHS financial regime and environment, especially Payment by results and commissioning
20. Experience of developing I&E plans, forecasts and delivery of financial targets
21. Experience of working with Divisional Managers, Lead Clinicians and Executive Directors
22. Experience of planning and implementation
Desirable criteria
23. Considerable proven experience operating at a senior level within the NHS (ideally Acute Sector)
24. Experience of working in a variety of functions within the NHS e.g. Financial Management, Financial Accounting/Services, Cost and Contracting, Capital, Audit, Financial Planning and Commissioning
25. Project management experience
Skills & Ability
Essential criteria
26. Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate complex financial data to non-finance managers
27. Highly developed analytical skills to solve highly complex financial and non-financial problems. Understand linkages
28. Advanced user of IT e.g. Microsoft office, financial ledger systems, costing systems, databases
29. Able to understand and interpret national financial policies and advising the Trust on their implementation
30. Experience of planning to formulate the delivery of financial services at both operational and strategic levels
Desirable criteria
31. Advanced user of spreadsheet applications with a strong track record in automation, data visualisation, and formula development