Below is a list of all the Finance and Procurement work placements available in the East of England.
If you are interested in applying for any of these roles please download the application form below.
Instructions on what to do with your completed application form are contained within the document.
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Office: Unit 7 & 8, Meadow Lane
Town: St Ives
Requirement to travel to other locations? No
No of Posts: 2
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust's vision is to provide high quality care through our excellent people.
Community based health care services are fundamental to the success of an NHS that gives people more choice and control over their health care.
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust is one of the smaller NHS organisations in the region with an expanding portfolio of services across the eastern region. This enables us to provide you with a placement year that will give you greater experiences in more aspects of NHS Finance, allowing you to develop broader skills and understanding.
For the past ten years our Finance team has successfully guided students through an interesting and rewarding placement year, with many going onto future finance careers after graduating university. Our placement programme is tailored to you and the greater challenge and responsibility you want the more you will be given.
The Finance Graduate Placement Student plays a key role in the delivery of the Trust’s financial services and you will become an expert in your area of responsibility, supporting our wide range of services in delivering NHS care. Our clinical services will look to you to answer queries and suggest improvements to their processes. Your role will cover recurring monthly tasks at the close down of each financial period and will have active input into important year end processes to aid production of the final accounts. Beyond this there will be the opportunity to be involved with focussed projects within the finance team.
On completion of your placement year, you will be able to see the impact you have made and have tangible evidence of tasks and responsibilities to add to your CV for future job applications.
To learn more about our organisation, please go to https://www.cambscommunityservices.nhs.uk/
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Paul Spencer
Job Title: Head of Statutory Accounting
Email: pspencer1@nhs.net
Office: Norwich
City: Norwich
Requirement to travel to other locations? No
The post holder will be based in the Management Accounts Team.
They will be responsible for supporting the Management Accounts team in their preparation of monthly budget statements and forecast reports, and annual budget setting.
Duties will include data preparation, analysis and investigation, journal posting, and accurate record keeping. Interrogation of the financial ledger and other data systems (for example these could include: Rostering, Staff records and Fleet).
There will also be an opportunity to support the Financial Services team in Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable processing, and the Charities function.
To learn more about our organisation visit - https://www.eastamb.nhs.uk/
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Lauren Smith
Job Title: Senior Finance Analyst
Email: lauren.smith@eastamb.nhs.uk
Office: Villa 10 or Remote working
Town: Colchester
Requirement to travel to other locations? Ipswich Hospital
The post holder will be based in the Operational Financial Management Team.
They will be responsible for helping to provide monthly management accounts and support budget holders to manage their resources.
Duties will include (responsibility and the range will increase as experience increases).
We will use the bitesize short courses as part of their induction
The post holder will Rotate between Financial Services and Costing and Income Teams.
They will be responsible for supporting the current teams in delivering their monthly tasks.
Duties will include (responsibility and the range will increase as experience increases).
Financial Services
Bi and Income
Strategic Business Planning
We will use the bitesize short courses as part of their induction.
To learn more about our organisation visit - https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Daryl Cockman
Job Title: Head of Financial Development
Email: Daryl.Cockman@esneft.nhs.uk
Office: Villa 10 or Remote working
Town: Colchester
Requirement to travel to other locations? Ipswich Hospital
The post holder will be based in the Operational Financial Management Team.
They will be responsible for helping to provide monthly management accounts and support budget holders to manage their resources.
Duties will include (responsibility and the range will increase as experience increases).
We will use the bitesize short courses as part of their induction
The post holder will Rotate between Financial Services and Costing and Income Teams.
They will be responsible for supporting the current teams in delivering their monthly tasks.
Duties will include (responsibility and the range will increase as experience increases).
Financial Services
Bi and Income
Strategic Business Planning
We will use the bitesize short courses as part of their induction.
To learn more about our organisation visit - https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Daryl Cockman
Job Title: Head of Financial Development
Email: Daryl.Cockman@esneft.nhs.uk
Office: Howard Court, 14 Tewin Road, Welwyn Garden City AL7 1BW
Requirement to travel to other locations? No
The post holder supports the functions of the Finance Department, including contributing to monthly financial reporting, journal processes, data extraction, budget holder queries and budget setting.
Click here to download the job description for Finance Assistant.
To learn more about our organisation visit - www.hct.nhs.uk
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Shweta Parikh
Job Title:Senior Management Accountant
Email: Shweta.parikh1@nhs.net
Office: Office address yet to be confirmed / home based
Town: Ely
Requirement to travel to other locations? Yes - some may be required for additional training or staff development days. Plus occasional journey to hub office in Ely.
The post holders will be based in the Central Finance Team.
They will be responsible for validating invoices for payment, month end reporting, monitoring Personal Health Budget holders accounts.
Click here to download the full job description for a list of duties for Accounts Assistant.
To learn more about our organisation, please go to https://www.cambridgeshireandpeterboroughccg.nhs.uk
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Dawn Gorham
Job Title: Finance Contracts Lead - Cambridge
Email: dawn.gorham@nhs.net
Note: These vacancies are for NHS Castle Point & Rochford CCG & NHS Southend CCG
Office: 12 Castle Road
Town: Rayleigh
Requirement to travel to other locations? No
No of Posts available: 2
The post holder will be based in the Finance Team.
Duties will include general Finance support to the Finance team in South East Essex.
Click here to download the job description for Undergraduate Finance Assistant.
To learn more about our organisations visit:
https://castlepointandrochfordccg.nhs.uk/
https://southendccg.nhs.uk/
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Mike Shimmon
Job Title: Head of Financial Planning and Costing
Email: mike.shimmon@nhs.net
Office: Charter House
Town: Welwyn Garden City
Requirement to travel to other locations? Possibly, but limited
No of Posts: 1
The post holder will provide support to finance teams within the East of England Region, specifically East of England Specialised Services, Direct Commissioning and Operational Finance in all aspects of budgetary management, ensuring the provision of comprehensive high quality financial support.
The post holder will be required to work flexibly providing both financial management support and commissioning finance support as required.
Click here to download the job description for Finance Assistant.
To learn more about our organisations visit:
www.england.nhs.uk
www.improvement.nhs.uk
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Christopher McInerney
Job Title: Finance Senior Manager
Email: Christopher.mcinerney@nhs.net
Office: Victoria House
Town: Cambridge
Requirement to travel to other locations? Possibly, but limited
No of Posts: 1
The post holder will provide support to finance teams within the East of England Region, specifically East of England Specialised Services, Direct Commissioning and Operational Finance in all aspects of budgetary management, ensuring the provision of comprehensive high quality financial support.
The post holder will be required to work flexibly providing both financial management support and commissioning finance support as required.
Click here to download the job description for Finance Assistant.
To learn more about our organisations visit:
www.england.nhs.uk
www.improvement.nhs.uk
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Christopher McInerney
Job Title: Finance Senior Manager
Email: Christopher.mcinerney@nhs.net
Office: Swift House
Town: Chelmsford
Requirement to travel to other locations? Possibly, but limited
No of Posts: 2
The post holder will provide support to finance teams within the East of England Region, specifically East of England Specialised Services, Direct Commissioning and Operational Finance in all aspects of budgetary management, ensuring the provision of comprehensive high quality financial support.
The post holder will be required to work flexibly providing both financial management support and commissioning finance support as required.
Click here to download the job description for Finance Assistant.
To learn more about our organisations visit:
www.england.nhs.uk
www.improvement.nhs.uk
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Christopher McInerney
Job Title: Finance Senior Manager
Email: Christopher.mcinerney@nhs.net
Office: Victoria House
Town: Fulbourn
Requirement to travel to other locations? Possibly - potential travel to visit information teams at hospitals in the region.
As an Information Commissioning Analyst Apprentice, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Specialised Commissioning team to ensure the provision of comprehensive high quality analyst support.
To deliver an effective and competent level of clerical support and consistently deliver a “client-focused” service which promotes good customer service and effective working relationships.
Click here to download the job description and person specification for Information Commissioning Analyst Apprentice.
To learn more about our organisations visit:
www.england.nhs.uk
www.improvement.nhs.uk
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Rebecca Fagg
Job Title: Senior Information Commissioning Analyst
Email: Rebecca.Fagg@nhs.net
Office: 3rd Floor, Arndale House, The Mall, LU1 2LJ
Town: Luton (Can be Bedford or Milton Keynes) after merger
Requirement to travel to other locations? Milton Keynes/ Bedford
The post holder will be based in the Acute Finance Team.
They will be responsible for non-contractual activity validation, benchmarking, reporting and trends analysis.
Duties will include but not limited to
To learn more about our organisation, please go to https://www.lutonccg.nhs.uk/home/
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Muhammad Talha
Job Title: Senior Finance Manager
Email: muhammad.talha@nhs.net
Office: Woodlands House, NR2 3TU
Town: Norwich
Requirement to travel to other locations? No
The post holder will be based in the Finance Team. Primarily the role is with the Team supporting Specialist Service, System Operations, Children’s and Young Persons, Palliative Care and Community Beds.
Click here to download the job description for Support Accountant.
To learn more about our organisation, please go to http://www.norfolkcommunityhealthandcare.nhs.uk
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Lucy Johnston
Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Email: lucy.johnston@nchc.nhs.uk
Office: Quince House, West Suffolk Hospital
Town: Bury St Edmunds, IP33 2QZ
Requirement to travel to other locations? No
At West Suffolk Hospital we promise to put Patients First. Our commitment to every patient, every day, doing our best to ensure they feel safe, in a clean and comfortable environment with highly professional staff who work together to achieve this.
We want our patients to feel cared for, with a courteous and respectful attitude from kind and helpful staff who have the time to listen and keep them informed at every step. We want them to feel confident that their treatment is provided by skilled and compassionate teams who will involve them in their care and who understand their time is valuable.
Job Purpose:
This post will provide an opportunity for an undergraduate student to gain experience within an NHS Finance department in a 12 month placement rotating through three sub-departments; management accounts, financial services and contract income. The timing and duration of the rotations will be determined by business need although the majority of the time over the twelve months will be spent with management accounts.
The post holder should be capable of planning their workload to achieve tight deadlines whilst ensuring consistency and paying strong attention to detail. They will be required to work on their own initiative, seeking guidance when appropriate.
The placement student will be expected to communicate clearly any requirements that need to be met as part of their degree and ensure appropriate arrangements are in place for any required assessment.
Click here to download the Job Description for Finance Undergraduate Trainee
To learn more about our organisation, please go to www.wsh.nhs.uk
Key Placement Contact:
Name: Bernice Hitchings
Job Title: Management Accountant
Email: Bernice.Hitchings@wsh.nhs.uk
