Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- 15 months (15 months Fixed Term Contract)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (0.60 WTE)
- Job ref
- Trac ID: 7383823
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Finance Business Partner – EPR
NHS AfC: Band 5
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
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Job overview
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is a forward looking dynamic well managed organisation. Airedale is located close to Skipton and is regarded as a very pleasant place to work.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Finance Business Partner to join our Electronic Patient Record (“EPR”) team on a 15 months fixed term basis. Working closely with the Finance Business Partner this is a role which is focused on delivering high quality finance, planning and reporting information to support the Trust’s EPR implementation by providing financial information, analysis and advice.
Based in the finance department within the hospital, the team work closely with operational EPR colleagues to support robust financial management and control. The role advertised is vital in ensuring robust, accurate and timely reporting.
The post holder will have a key role in ensuring the effective use of resources through providing high quality financial information, advice and support. We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed individual with a real commitment to excellent service delivery and great communication skills.
Main duties of the job
Production of timely internal financial reports and statutory annual returns for Programme, ensuring that work is completed within financial timescales and legal requirements
Analyse/monitor budgets, providing financial advice to EPR programme team, investigating variances, interpreting outcomes & suggesting corrective actions
Act as initial contact for programme managers to investigate issues arising from budget statements, analysing complex and potentially sensitive information and forecasting trends with the ability to convey financial and corporate issues to non-finance professionals, including representing finance within EPR management/governance meetings; at times, providing report on finances
Design and produce complex spreadsheets for use in finance and other Trust departments, to support strategic decision making
Monitor and control financial aspects of ESR; completion and reconciliation of EPR expenditure report to ensure consistency with financial ledger & establishment controls
Calculate effect of changes to service delivery, skill mix or from external sources, forecasting impact on financial position supporting strategic decision making with trend analysis/forecasting
Budgetary control, including managing upload of reconciled budgets, ensuring regular maintenance and updates ensuring changes are fully reconciled between general ledger and budget reconciliation sheets
Support wider financial management team, in particular corporate services team, with shared tasks
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached file for Job Description and Person Specification for the Assistant Finance Business Partner - EPR role
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB Certificate Level/Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) Member or equivalent experience to degree level.
Experience & Skills
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working in a management accounts environment
- Knowledge of the business planning process
- Advanced keyboard skills for use with databases and spreadsheets
- Ability to work using own initiative and make decisions
- Ability to work to strict deadlines within conflicting priorities
- Ability to work as part of a team
Desirable criteria
- Experience of capital accounting rules
- Experience of working with computerised ledgers & other Financial systems
- Experience of working with Oracle
- NHS Experience
- Awareness of NHS Foundation Trusts
Communication
Essential criteria
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate and deliver training to non-finance users
- Ability to convey financial information to non-finance professionals
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kevin Round
- Job title
- Seymour John
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07768 000420
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