Planning, Costing and Productivity Accountant

NHS; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is offering a position for a Planning, Costing and Productivity Accountant. The role involves managing costing systems and providing insights into resource usage across the patient journey. You will ensure high-quality data helps drive decision-making. Candidates should have NHS finance experience and strong IT skills, including database management. This position supports hybrid working to allow flexibility, requiring a commitment of two to three days per week on site. Join a supportive team committed to improving healthcare through financial insights.

Benefits

Ongoing training and development opportunities

Collaborative and supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience providing costing information to managers.
• Experience with NHS costing, including national cost collection involvement.
• Ability to produce detailed procedure and process documentation.

Responsibilities

• Manage and run the Group's costing systems.
• Produce accurate costed activity data quarterly.
• Drive continuous improvement in data quality.

Skills

Excellent IT skills, including database systems

Advanced spreadsheets

Graphical presentation

Education

NHS acute hospital finance

HFMA membership

Tools

Computerised accounting systems

Job description

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Planning, Costing and Productivity Accountant

The closing date is 29 December 2025.

This post is advertised as band 5 or 6, dependent upon experience. Our Planning, Costing and Productivity teams at RUH Bath, GWH Swindon and SFT Salisbury have come together as part of the new BSW Hospitals Group, creating an exciting opportunity to shape a smarter, more integrated approach to costing across all three Trusts.

We're now recruiting talented individuals to help us build this new way of working. With roles based at any of our group sites – Bath, Swindon or Salisbury – you'll be part of a forward‑thinking team working at scale to deliver real impact.

Planning, Costing and Productivity in the NHS is a chance to bring real insight into how resources are used throughout the patient journey. Our team calculates the cost of every activity the Group provides, delivering mandatory cost returns, service line reporting and high‑quality information that influences key decision‑making, planning and benchmarking across the organisation.

Main duties of the job

As a Planning, Costing and Productivity Accountant, you'll play a key role in managing and running the Group's costing systems, producing accurate, meaningful costed activity data on a quarterly cycle. You'll drive continuous improvement in data quality, help refine costing processes, and work closely with colleagues across finance and operational teams to ensure our insights make a difference. You will work in a team of two Planning, Costing and Productivity Accountants.

The Group supports hybrid working, with two to three days per week on site.

About us

Our Finance teams are known for being supportive, collaborative and genuinely welcoming. We believe in helping every team member reach their full potential, with ongoing training, development opportunities and a strong culture of shared learning. All our teams are currently accredited at Level 1 with Future Focused Finance, and were ambitiously working towards Level 2 accreditation in 2026.

If you are enthusiastic about improving healthcare through high‑quality financial insight and want to be part of an evolving, ambitious and supportive team, we'd love to hear from you.

Person Specification – Qualifications

• NHS acute hospital finance
• HFMA membership

Person Specification – Experience

• Providing costing information to managers
• Computerised accounting systems
• Producing detailed procedure and process documentation
• Excellent IT skills, including database systems, advanced spreadsheets, pivots and graphical presentation
• NHS costing experience, including involvement in production of national cost collection

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

BSW Hospitals Group (Swindon, Salisbury, Bath)