HSCP Finance Officer (Fixed Term)

Job Description

This post is fixed term until 30/06/2025.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 2 year fixed term Finance Officer position within the West Dunbartonshire’s Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) Finance Team. The successful candidate will support delivery of a statutory accounting functions and an integrated accounting support service to the wider HSCP Service Area. You will provide a comprehensive range of high quality services across the Partnership, their service users and external organisations that work in partnership with the HSCP. The HSCP is an established innovative partnership, responsible for delivering all primary care, local community health and social care services to the population of West Dunbartonshire in an integrated way.

Working as an integral member of the HSCP Finance Team the successful applicant will support the Social Care portfolio (c£75m) under the guidance of the HSCP Finance Manager. They will contribute to the overall performance of the team in a role which provides high quality financial management information, accounting, business planning input and advice.

With demonstrable experience of budget setting/monitoring and final accounts preparation the successful applicant will be required to adapt and prioritise workload based on changing circumstances, whilst maintaining timescales and meeting deadlines.

Under current Covid guidance the Finance Team operate a blended model of some office based and home working. West Dunbartonshire is a great place to live and work. The area is made up of rural, urban and waterfront locations and offers a range of new-build and traditional homes, all just half an hour from the heart of Glasgow by car and well serviced public transport links.

If you are motivated and would relish the opportunity and challenge of supporting HSCP social care managers then we would welcome your application.

Requirements

The preferred candidate will be required to complete a Standard Disclosure check prior to a formal offer being made by West Dunbartonshire Council.

Responsibilities

The employment for which you are applying is excepted from the provisions of section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applicants are, therefore, not statutorily entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are "spent" under the provisions of the Act. In the event of employment any failure to disclose such convictions could result in dismissal or disciplinary action.

The Individual

West Dunbartonshire offers a family friendly working environment, endeavours to ensure a work life balance and welcomes applications from employees requiring flexibility. For information about West Dunbartonshire Council please click on the following link and see why we are an employer of choice:

http://www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/working-for-us/about-us/

More information on the benefits of working within West Dunbartonshire Council, can be found using the following link:

http://www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/working-for-us/benefits-of-working-with-us/