University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is a dynamic and challenging environment, which provides acute healthcare for people in Plymouth, South West Devon and South East Cornwall, and has more than 6,500 staff working in its services.

The Trust became a teaching hospital with the opening of the Peninsula Medical School, a joint venture with the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter. We are the largest teaching hospital in the South West and have an active commitment to developing and supporting our staff.

The Trust is one of the largest acute healthcare providers in the country. Our services include Emergency and Acute Assessment units, General Medical and Surgical Services, Cancer Care, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Dentistry, Ear Nose and Throat, Neurosciences and Renal services. We offer a full range of general hospital services to around 450,000 people in Plymouth, North and East Cornwall and South and West Devon. These include emergency and major trauma services, maternity services, paediatrics and a full range of diagnostic, medical and surgical sub-specialties.

We are a people business - where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure.

Would you like to use your finance skills to make a difference to the healthcare services we offer our population, working with teams to transform services and develop our facilities?

An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and hardworking individual to join an established Finance team. As part of the Business Advice Team you will provide a high quality Finance Business Partnering service to a range of Service Lines.

Reporting to a Care Group Finance Manager, the successful candidate will be commercially aware and understand the needs of both operations and management.

You must be able to manipulate, analyse and interpret data appropriately for your audience with excellent communication skills, and be a Professionally Qualified Accountant.

You will be the interface between finance and operations, where you will actively influence day to day decisions and help shape strategic and business planning of the Trust which will include undertaking Demand and Capacity planning, understanding Service Line Viability, Benchmarking, developing Transformational Savings Plans and support the production of large Business Cases for capital and/or revenue investments.

For an informal discussion please contact Emma Richerby, Care Group Finance Manager () or Jenny Waycott (), Head of Business Advice.

**Interview Date 16th December 2020**

***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as 'Priority' and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***