Assistant Management Accountant

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 30 September 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a suitably experienced and motivated Assistant Management Accountant to join our successful team within the finance function at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.

This post is a permanent post, reporting to and supporting the Senior Management Accountant.

It will be based on site for the majority of the week with the potential for a portion of the week to be worked away from the office.

The successful applicant will work across two smaller teams of 4/5 people, supporting the financial management and business advice service to Clinical Care Group encompassing:

• Budgetary control
• Financial advice and support
• Monthly reporting

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

For the most up-to-date information on visa requirements and eligibility, please check online to determine whether you can apply.

You will have excellent numerical and analytical skills and possess the ability to work autonomously, achieve deadlines and prioritise your workload. A knowledge and experience in using Microsoft Excel and an understanding of general ledger accounting software would be an advantage.

In return we will offer you a warm and welcoming environment where you will be fully supported. In addition, we operate an agile working policy, whereby the team are based on site for a proportion of the week and have the option to work at home, where preferred, for the rest of the week, on a rota basis.

The department also work to a flexible working policy, enabling flexible start and finish times and creating the ability to take back time owed.

The trust also supports anyone wishing to study towards a professional qualification, including financial and study leave support. This role is positioned within the team structure to enable excellent developmental and career progression opportunities.

• Flexible and responsive.
• Motivated
• Driving posts must you have a valid Full UK driving licence

• Minimum of 5 GCSEs / O Levels (A*
  - C) including Maths and English, or relevant experience. Demonstrates a track record of academic achievement or has experience of working within a finance function.
• Experience of working within a NHS finance function.
• Studying towards a professional accountancy qualification

• The ability to provide and receive complex financial information to/from financial and non-financial staff orally, in writing or electronically in a professional manner.
• Good computer skills with experience of the Microsoft Office particularly Excel and Word.
• Ability to work to all routine and ad hoc deadlines.
• Ability to identify and act to remedy circumstances that mean a deadline is at risk.
• Must have good verbal and written communication skills.
• Must have good analytical skills
• Possesses basic organisational skills
• Has an appreciation of the NHS finance regime.
• The ability to input into and interrogate the Finance General Ledger to obtain standard and ad hoc reports.

• Experience of working within a finance role
• Experience of working within NHS finance

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust