Band 8a
Main area
Finance
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
287-CEF-268-25
Department name
LUH - 1 General Staffing (AFC posts)
Site
Aintree Hospital
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/09/2025 23:59
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has become available to join the Management Accounts Team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT).
LUHFT is one of the UK's largest trusts, serving a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
Collaboration throughout the Trust is central to our mission and the values of the Trust are represented in our excellent finance team with an aim to strive to provide world class financial management and services through great people, great care, great ambition and great innovation. Core to this is our staff, their career journey and development.
The current opportunity is for an enthusiastic individual to join our friendly and talented Financial Management Team within the Corporate Division, seizing the opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge within a large vibrant Trust and finance department who have won multiple awards in recent years ranging from team of the year to the Havelock award, which recognises best practice in finance skills development.
Main duties of the job
Provide support to the Assistant Head of Finance in the delivery of a highly specialist support to the corporate decision making process in respect of the financial and statutory obligations of the Trust's Financial Management function.
Specific responsibility for providing comprehensive financial management information and support to a group of clinical and departmental budgets. To be a key member of the Trust's Financial Department and contribute to the delivery of it's overall objectives.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities - for further details, please refer to the attached job description
To provide financial information and advice to the Divisional General Manager, Clinical Directors and other managers within the relevant Directorates. To meet regularly with these managers to ensure that any potential financial problems are identified early enough for corrective action to be effective.
To have overall responsibility for all aspects of budgetary management within the relevant directorates, including monitoring of performance and providing advice on corrective action as necessary. To take a lead role in the Division in annual budget setting process.
To undertake lead responsibility for the implementation and monitoring of recharging mechanisms to improve budgetary control (e.g. Radiology). To take responsibility for the authorization of specific expenditure within the Directorates (e.g. Works recharges) and the authorization for the advertisement of vacant posts to ensure that funding is available.
To actively participate in and contribute to the formulation and implementation of the Divisional Business Plans in accordance with the Trust's strategic aims and objectives. To provide support and advice on financial and non-financial aspects of the Business Plans.
To provide the Head of Management Accounts with the information necessary to enable corporate reporting. This will include explanation of significant variance movements for inclusion in the Trust Board Report.
To assist Clinical Directors and Service Managers in identifying and achieving cost improvement and income generation targets, undertaking reviews of all existing practices with the aim of improving efficiency.
To participate in the development of new costing and budgeting methodologies to provide information for both managerial and commercial purposes.
To review, for the relevant Directorates, Aintree's costs relative to national norms and other provider units and establishing verification of significant variations.
To monitor the service provided by the relevant Directorates to other Trusts in accordance with the Service Level Agreements. To discuss and renegotiate these SLA's as necessary.
To take financial responsibility in the competitive tendering process to ensure that best value is achieved. To prepare financial option appraisal reports for presentation to the Trust board incorporating recommendations.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB Qualified Accountant
- Evidence of commitment to continued professional development
Desirable criteria
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-qualification experience
- Evidence of innovative approach in analysing and drawing conclusions from complex financial and performance data
- Experience of staff management/development
- Evidence of track record of achievement
Desirable criteria
- NHS financial management experience
- Experience of working with senior managers and clinicians
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate In depth knowledge of: - Financial planning - Budgetary strategy & control - NHS Trust financial regime - Sound knowledge of NHS business case process
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly numerate
- Evidence of involvement in dealing with complex change issues
- Ability to Lead & Motivate Staff
- Open and developmental leadership style
- Demonstrate commitment to staff development.
- Decisive and able to use own Judgement
- Knowledge and understanding of HR policies.
- Strategic and innovative thinker
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills via a variety of media and forums, with a wide range of people from all levels both from within and outside of the Trust
- Well developed influencing and negotiation skills
- Proficient in use of current business software (e.g. Microsoft Office) and able to apply this to the development of complex financial models
- Strong analytical and reasoning skills supported by attention to detail
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of structures of NHS
- Knowledge of Acute Hospital Environment
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Posts advertised to 'internal staff' are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).
From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.
All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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