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Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
About
The Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership took its present form in April 2001 in order to provide specialist mental health services to people across Avon and Wiltshire.
Our multi-professional teams include some people who you might expect:
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Nurses
Healthcare assistants
However they also include many other people with skills, knowledge and experience to contribute to your individual care and treatment:
Social workers
Mental health workers
Occupational therapists
Arts therapists
Dietitians
Physiotherapists
Psychotherapists
Service-user involvement workers
Community development workers
A carer's caseworker
Medical secretaries
And many more!
Behind the scenes our teams are supported by housekeeping teams, security staff, maintenance teams, personnel staff, recruitment specialist to ensure that we have the right people to address your needs, a childcare co-ordinator, an estates team to make sure our facilities are of a high quality, catering teams, accounting and finance teams, training specialists, clinical governance specialists to make sure that our working practices are the best they can be, a pharmacist, IT professionals, a press and communications team, researchers and more.
The hospitals covered by the Trust include:
Green Lane Hospital, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 5DS
Tel: 01380 731200 Beds 60
Hillview Lodge, Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, Somerset, BA1 3NG
Tel: 01225 428331 Beds 57
St Martins Hospital, Midford Road, Bath, Somerset, BA2 5RP
Tel: 01225 832383 Beds 46
Charter House, Seymour Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire BA14 8LS
Tel: 01225 774561 Beds 26
Blackberry Hill Hospital, Manor Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 2EW. Tel: 0117 965 6061
Long Fox Unit, Weston General Hospital, Weston Super Mare, Avon BS23 4TQ. Tel: 01934 647084
Donal Early House, Mental Health Unit, Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB. Tel: 0117 959 5821
Band 4 Assistant Management Accountant - Bath NHS House
Accepting applications until: 05-Jan-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 05-Jan-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Bath NHS House
- Address
- Combe Park
- Town
- Bath
- Postcode
- BA1 3QE
- Major / Minor Region
- Somerset
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: Substantive
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 4)
Specialty
- Main area
- Finance
Job overview
If you believe in putting patients first and supporting the delivery of sustainable mental health services then we want to hear from you. We make it our priority to give the best possible care in the right place at the right time to help our users recover and live their best life. You can help us achieve this by joining our passionate and friendly finance team.
We currently have a vacancy for a highly motivated, pro-active, part-qualified AAT to work as an Assistant Management Accountant.
As a team we are continuously seeking to improve the quality of financial information provided to our many stakeholders and are looking for a candidate who can help improve our processes. In particular we need people who can think beyond traditional roles and work with colleagues in other disciplines.
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You will work as part of the Financial Management team to provide financial advice and support to managers and clinicians within the west division, which covers a geographical region of Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. In addition, you will help to prepare month end accounts, forecasts and budget setting for the division.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main requirements of this role are:
- To assist in the preparation of accurate monthly management accounts, forecasts and production of annual budgets .
- To work with staff to explain variances between budgeted and actual expenditure and help them to take corrective action.
- To maintain and enhance the customer-orientated approach of the Finance Team through the provision of timely and professional help and advice.
- To investigate financial enquiries, providing assistance and advice as required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- AAT part qualified
Role Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates significant, relevant experience of working in a Finance department
- Demonstrates experience of preparing management accounts
Desirable criteria
- NHS or Social Services experience
- Experience of working with staff with a non-financial background.
Communication skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates strong written communication skills
- Demonstrates strong verbal communication skills
- Flexible and supportive team member
IT skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of using IT in the workplace e.g. Microsoft - word processing, spreadsheets, modern general ledger accounting packages
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Angela Sakala
- Job title
- Directorate Accountant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01225 258185
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