Costing Accountant

Job summary

Are you a qualified accountant looking for a role that combines technical costing and analytical skills with a focus on improving clinical services' understanding of their costs / cost drivers?

Join our friendly and supportive finance team at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust as our costing accountant. We are looking for a pro-active individual with an eye for detail and the ability to work across disciplines, who can further develop our costing function to ensure that it can support the ambitions of the wider NHS medium term plan.

The Costing Accountant is a key specialist role within the finance team, leading the development and delivery of a comprehensive costing function. This role is essential to ensure that Trust senior management has a clear understanding of Trust operational costs to support critical business decision making.

Contact Details: Chris Poyser, Head of Corporate Finance. e-mail: chris.poyser@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

The Costing Accountant is responsible for producing Patient Level Information & Costing (PLICs) for internal audiences and also as part of mandatory national returns.

The postholder will also represent the Trust at regional and national costing forums. The role demands a high degree of collaboration with other Trust functions, particularly the Information Team due to the reliance on high quality activity data.

The post-holder will develop productive relationships with operational managers to review and refine costing outputs and further develop the PLICs system in order to aid managers in the delivery of ever-more efficient services.

The postholder will be highly numerate and will possess strong IT and data analysis skills including a high degree of proficiency in Microsoft Excel. The role will also support the development of stronger links between activity and income, as part of the national steer towards more activity based contracts.

The postholder will be responsible for producing and interpreting internal and external benchmarking information. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Finance, the Costing Accountant will be a key member of the finance team, expected to contribute to the further development and improvement of the wider finance function.

This is expected to include greater integration of finance and activity information within reporting. We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job responsibilities

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.