PLICS Accountant/Costing Accountant

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Costing Accountant/PLICS Analyst to join our Costing team at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust currently has an in-house costing team to develop, produce and champion Service Line Reporting and Patient Level Information Costing, as a decision support tool, within the Trust.

Reporting to the PLICS Finance Manager, the Costing Accountant/PLICS Analyst will support the provision of best in class costing and benchmarking information within the Trust, to pro-actively support decision making within the Trust for service developments, business cases, business planning, pathway redesign and Transformational CIPs (Cost Improvement Programmes).
1. Support the production of a Trust wide costing system to ensure the timely and effective production of costing information.
2. Responsibility for coordinating and running the costing system on a quarterly basis. This is an extremely complex process requiring an understanding of several database setups.
3. To maintain and develop complex data extract, transform and load processes from trust wide systems as required for the costing system.
4. In conjunction with the Data warehousing, data quality and Costing Teams, lead the development of a disciplined process to improve data assurance for inputs into the costing system providing challenge to the integrity of data.
5. To maintain, refine and develop processes within the costing system including complex cost apportionments and matching principles.
6. In conjunction with the software supplier analyse, test and develop front end reporting tools for delivery of appropriate reporting functionality. To maintain appropriate information resources to support all Divisions to inform on business decisions going forward.

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Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community

health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as

psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the

NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different

settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich

and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton

Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing

healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide

and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

1. Engage in the process of production and assessment of benchmarking information in the Trust,
2. To collaborate with other Trusts in the sharing of knowledge and experiences to assist developments.
3. To support improvement of the PLICS system by developing appropriate documentation and procedure notes
4. Ensure that local (costing team specific) software and Qlikview dashboards in use are kept up to date.
5. Attend national user groups and forums on behalf of the Trust.
6. Deputise when appropriate for the PLICS Accountant.

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