Directorate Finance Assistant Full Time

This is your opportunity to be part of something outstanding!
We are delighted to announce that following the CQC inspection our final Trust rating is an overall Good.

This means a Good for all 5 domains: Safe, Effective, Caring, Well-led, Responsive.

We are one of only four Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Trusts to achieve this for all 5 domains and the only one in the West Midlands.

Our Community Services for Older People was rated as outstanding.

Our Trust provides mental health, learning disability and children and family services across South Staffordshire, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. We have over 350 inpatient beds and a broad range of community services such as crisis resolution and home treatment, early intervention and memory services.

Specialist mother and baby, eating disorder and medium secure forensic mental health services care for patients from across the region and we have contracts across the country for IAPT, addiction and some health services in prisons as well as hosting a network for inpatient mental health care for serving military personnel.

Our 3,500 staff serve a local population of 1.1 million in Shropshire and South Staffordshire, and within a range of services based from Leeds to the Isle of Wight and Liverpool to Cambridge.

We are an innovative and forward thinking organisation with an expanding portfolio of services. This means we can offer our staff genuine opportunities to develop their careers, gaining experience working across a number of specialisms. We are renowned for investing in and supporting our employees and have a strong ethos of continuous professional development. We are one of the HSJ Best Places to Work in 2015.

Directorate Finance Assistant – Full Time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a busy Financial Management & Planning Team working within the Trust Finance & Performance Directorate.

We are looking for a Directorate Finance Assistant who is enthusiastic, self-motivated and organised to join the Financial Management & Planning Team based at our Trust HQ in Stafford.

The team provides management accounting services to the Trust on a daily, monthly and annual basis. The post holder will assist the team to ensure that high quality delivery of management account services are maintained, in accordance with relevant professional and audit standards.

The post holder will be supporting the production and issuing of routine monthly reports to budget holders and directorates. To ensure income is captured through the raising of monthly invoices and recharges.

The successful candidate must be educated to GCSE level or equivalent. A sound knowledge of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and financial computer systems. In additional, the ability to work to strict deadlines and provide clear and concise financial information to non-financial managers is essential.

For further details about this role please contact Jean Etherington: Financial Business Advisor on telephone number: 0300 790 7000 – Extension 8653 or Email: jean.etherington@sssft.nhs.uk

IMPORTANT INFORMATION about your application. Please read. . . . . . . . . . . .

1. UPDATES & CORRESPONDENCE – All correspondence will be sent via email to the email address you used when making your application. Please check your email regularly. If you have selected updates by text messaging we will also correspond via this method.

2. EMPLOYMENT CHECKS – If selected for interview, you will be sent an email with the details of the documentation you need to bring along with you to verify your Right to work in the UK, your identity and DBS Check. Failure to bring the documentation will delay your employment if you are successful at interview.

3. REFERENCES – Please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last 3 years of employment and advise of any gaps in employment.

South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an Equal Opportunities employer and operates a no smoking at work policy.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the DBS Update Service.

The Trust has a positive attitude to employees and job applicants with mental health issues.

PLEASE NOTE: should we have a high volume of applications the Trust may close the vacancy early.

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