Income and Commissioning Accountant

As the Income and commissioning accountant your role is to

• Negotiate and liaise with Commissioners and other external organisations to ensure the Group receives the appropriate level of clinical income.
• Scope and provide contracting and financial advice, modelling and information to enable effective negotiation and monitoring of contracts.
• Highlight risks and opportunities within the commissioner contracts
• Support the internal SLR process, together with the costing and information teams.
• Manage the system for monitoring, reporting and reconciling income in line with contracts to ensure the Group receives the correct level of income.
• Ensure clinical income forecasting is robust across the Group
• Represent the finance department internally and externally on financial and performance monitoring groups.
• Management of the Income Team across the Group
• Deputise for the Assistant Director of Finance, as required., The post holder needs to use their expertise as a CCAB qualified accountant and specialist expert knowledge of the NHS financial regime to:
+ Ensure robust processes are in place to manage the Trust's monthly and quarterly reporting obligations to both internal and external bodies, ensuring that the requirements of contracts with external bodies are achieved. + Negotiate with commissioners at a senior level to ensure the Trust receives the appropriate level of income and forecasts of income, risks and opportunities across both Trusts are robust. + Provide high quality financial advice and data to enable the effective commissioning with all commissioners. + To establish and maintain robust policies and procedures to ensure financial systems provide robust information + To communicate complex financial issues to non- finance professionals.
• The post holder is required to maintain membership of a CCAB accountancy body and undertake structured continuous professional development (CPD) as specified by their accountancy body.
• The post holder is required to undertake CPD in order to maintain an expert knowledge of the NHS financial regime, a detailed knowledge of NHS management/policy issues and to ensure other management skills are kept at a high level.
• Needs an excellent understanding of IT systems including the financial ledger, SLAM, databases and complex spreadsheets enabling the finance team to fully exploit the benefits of any Trust information systems.
  
  The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve. Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH. As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology. We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.