An opportunity has arisen for a qualified Accountant or finalist to join the Income and Contacting team at Walsall Healthcare Trust taking the lead on income and activity monitoring / reporting and supporting the attainment of the Trust's financial performance.

The successful candidate will provide the Trust's management teams with a high quality comprehensive financial advisory service on all aspects of Income and activity. Advising and influencing management teams, covering large and particularly high risk budgets, on the implications of highly complex financial strategy and policy on behalf of the Head of Income and Costing.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of the job is to:

o Manage the routine production and reporting of finance and activity values for all Service Level Agreements (contracts) that the Trust has with NHS commissioners.

o Develop and maintain of finance & information systems/processes that support invoicing and debt control for Service Level Agreements.

o Support the Head of Costing & Income in the derivation of contract prices and provide information to support Service Level Agreement (contract) negotiations and monitoring.

o Reconciliation of Trust income & activity with SUS data, agree charges & refunds as appropriate.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities.

A new Urgent Emergency Care Centre was opened in March 2023. The two-storey development has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity and has provided almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.