Senior Finance Officer - Much Birch Surgery

Senior Finance Officer - Much Birch Surgery

Much Birch Surgery hasan exciting opportunity for a Senior Finance Officer to join ourdedicated team of healthcare professionals.

As a key member of theSenior Management Team, you will work alongside the Practice Manager,Operations Manager, GP and Nursing Clinical Leads, and the Dispensary Managerto support the strategic and financial leadership of the practice.

The role will be jointlymanaged by the Practice Manager and the Chief Accountant at TaurusHealthcare, giving you the benefit of being embedded within the practicewhile also contributing to and drawing on the expertise of a wider financeteam.

We strive for excellentclinical and professional support, a healthy work-life balance and achallenging but rewarding career, whatever your area of interest. We prideourselves on excellent patient care, fantastic teamwork and a willingness tolook at new ways of working.

We are a rapidly growingGP-led organisation with a mission to ensure that all patients have access tocomprehensive, coordinated and continuous care within a sustainable primarycare system.

This position is for 16.5 hours per week

Main duties of the job

Jobsummary:

To assist the PracticeManager & Taurus Finance Team in financial and associated tasks.

Organisational responsibilities.

Maintaining and increasing sourcesof income analysing and reporting on threats and opportunities.

Understanding of the financialimplications of contractchanges and legislation.

Reporting to the MB SMT and Relevant Taurus Directors.

About us

Taurus Healthcare was established in 2012, as the provider arm of the GP Federation serving 185,000 patients in Herefordshire. Founded and owned by the partners of the entire Herefordshire Primary Care community, Taurus is focused on providing excellent out of hospital services for patients. Our ethos is to provide high quality and cost-effective health outcomes that are delivered as close as possible to the patients home, whilst ensuring that patients who do require in hospital services are seen as quickly and effectively as possible.

At Taurus Healthcare we strive to create a diverse, inclusive workplace, and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds including those from Military Veterans and family members of serving personnel.

Taurus Healthcare offer many employee benefits, such as:

• Access to a generous NHS pension scheme with 20.68% employer contribution.
• 33 to 38 days annual leave entitlement, including bank holidays, depending on service -pro rata for part-time staff.
• Access to an extensive Employee Benefits Programme.
• Access to the Blue Light extensive discount scheme.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Job responsibilities

Jobsummary:

To assist the PracticeManager & Taurus Finance Team in financial and associated tasks

Organisational responsibilities

• Understanding of the financialimplications of contractchanges and legislation
• Reporting to the MB SMT and Relevant Taurus Directors

Operationalresponsibilities

• Useof Sage accounts package
• Maintaining the Purchase Ledger and Sales ledger for MuchBirch within Taurus Sage 200 system
• Supportingin the information provided to complete VAT returns
• Supporting the widerteam with cashflow and forecasting Fees register; utilities; cost effective purchasing; insurances;
• Reporting anomalies to the Management/ChiefAccountant
• Monthly reporting to Much Birch and finance managementteam to include monthly P&Ls and Budget variances/ financial performancewith support from wider Finance Management team and practice manager
• Overseeing all much birch contracts with support frompractice manager and wider Taurus team, with a contracts register to ensure atimely review for contracts to end or get renewed
• Supporting Much Birch SMT to interpret the financialperformance of the much birch contracts with a monthly financial report.
• Advise and preparecostings in conjunction with the Chief Accountant/Practice Manager
• Provide financial input into business cases for MuchBirch
• Ensuring financial policies at Much Birch are up to date
• Participation in overall Taurus reporting process,incidents and risk registers
• Finance team away days, Much Birch SMT and quarterlyMuch birch staff meetings.
• Processing of income and expenditure information to include GMS, CQRS Claims etc
• Record-keeping
• PO system/purchase and sales ledgerprocessing
• Organise annualappliance testing and calibration of medical equipment.
• MaintainTeamnet Premises and Equipment Check Portal. Oversee estates of Much Birchsurgery, including health and safety and upkeep, working with the Tauruscorporate teams to represent estates. Liaisewith handyman and outsourced tasks decorating/building/repairs
• Providefinancial control mechanisms and delivery for Ordering consumables; stock; vaccine;equipment
• Liaise with PM for claims processes(including CQRS; GPES)and maintaining strong relationships
• CompletingMonthly/Quarterly Claims for all contracts, via appropriate systems eg EMIS andinputting all information onto Sage Ledger system, analysing and correcting anydiscrepancies
• Liaise with all finance team members
• Liaise with PCN managers
• Liaising with the Management Accountant
• Liaising with the Director of Finance
• Any other related or relevant task in line with the role

A full Job Description & Person Specification is attached to this advert

Person Specification Other

• Understanding of confidentiality and Data Protection.
• Required to travel to meetings.
• Experience in working in a Primary Care Commissioning or GP Practice role

Skills

• Good interpersonal communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience of working to and achieving tight deadlines
• To manage and prioritise own work to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Good level of accuracy and attention to detail.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 5/ Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) qualification or equivalent general practice experience of a minimum of 3 years.
• Evidence of on-going professional development
• (Training towards a CCAB qualification).

Personal Qualities and Attributes

• Reliable, conscientious and flexible approach to work.
• To be able to work independently on own initiative.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.

Experience

• Financial Ledger System -SAGE an advantage.
• Computer literate with an ability to use the required systems/office packages.
• Such as Word and Excel.
• Experience of having a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload in order to meet strict deadlines.
• Experience showing ability to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to draw logical solutions to problems.
• Experience showing ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service and ensure a customer focused response.
• Experience showing ability to work both independently where required and as a team and player.