Are you fascinated by change and innovation? Can you help the NHS adopt innovation faster to help deliver better care to patients?

At Health Innovation Wessex, we improve people’s health, achieve excellence in healthcare and boost innovation and growth in our region’s life sciences and healthcare sector.

As one of 15 Health Innovation Networks (HINs) across England, we connect and support academics, NHS, industry and others to bring fresh energy to old problems, inspired thinking to new ones and to adopt innovative practice at scale.
The finance function at Health Innovation Wessex supports the strategic aims and delivery of our commissions. Finance is a small, dedicated team who provide all aspects of finance support from processing invoices through to the production of the accounts.

We are an ambitious organisation, looking for passionate and motivated people to join us with a proven track record of delivery. You will need to be a self-starter who is able to work independently, with great communication skills, and an ability to build new relationships quickly. You may not feel you meet all aspects of the role, but we welcome applications from people with a wide range of past experiences, particularly in smaller organisations. An appreciation of how the NHS and NHS funding work is an advantage to succeed in this role.

The successful candidate will need experience working in a small finance function, with a breadth of knowledge of the end-to-end finance processes.