Saint John of God Communith Mental Health Services Lucena Clinic and Cluain Mhurie Services

Lucena Clinic provides a comprehensive Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service for young people with moderate to severe mental health disorders to defined catchment areas, with an under 18 population of 172,585, residing in South Dublin City and County plus North and West County Wicklow. Clinical Teams are based throughout the catchment area operating clinics in Tallaght, Rathgar, Dun Laoghaire, Bray, Wicklow town and Arklow.

Cluain Mhuire is a national centre of innovation in public mental health service provision delivering a community based adult mental health service for the South East Coast of Co. Dublin to a catchment area of some 182,000 people approximately. In addition to general adult mental health services, Cluain Mhuire provides early intervention in psychosis, ADHD, gender and general hospital mental health services.

Regional Finance Officer

                   Grade V1, Finance Operations, Permanent, Full Time (35hrs)

Saint John of God Community Services, Community Mental Health Services Cluain Mhuire Service / Lucena Clinic are now inviting applications for the post of Regional Finance Officer, Grade V1. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, flexible, innovative and committed to providing a quality service that responds to the needs and priorities of our service users. 

Role Summary

This is a key role, and part of a leadership team. You will need the skills and experience to carry out full financial and management reporting for the CMH Region of Saint John of God Community Services clg.

Minimum Requirements

• Contribute to high performance and achievement within Finance by collaborating cross-functionally, building a supportive environment and working both on own initiative and as part of a team
•        To be an active part of the Finance Leadership Team and attend the weekly meetings
•        Approving and overseeing the weekly and monthly payroll
•        Overseeing the accounts payable and accounts receivable functions
•        Managing banks reconciliations and cash flow
•        Responsible for the budgeting and forecasting function within CMH Services
•        To provide timely and relevant finance reports to the management team in CMH Services
•        To ensure timely and accurate returns are made when required to all stakeholders
•        To be involved in the auditing process, both internal and external
•        Any other duties requested upon by Director of Finance or Financial Controller
•        Responsibility for completing Beds & Specialing spreadsheet and submitting to HSE.
•        Supervision, support and development of finance staff
•        Business process re-engineering
•        Advanced Microsoft Excel and word

This Job Description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties. The person appointed may be required to perform other duties as appropriate which may be assigned from time to time and to contribute to the development of the position

Remuneration

Salary Grade 0574 Grade VI (Clerical) on the Consolidated HSE Pay Scale

€55,093 - €67,308 per annum pro rata

Initial location

The initial location of this role is St. John of God Community Mental Health Lucena Clinic, 59 Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6. Training will be provided and once training completed, Hybrid working is possible.

Application Process:

The selection process for this competition will compromise several elements to select successful candidates for the position. These may include the following:

• Shortlisting based in the information contained within your application.
• An online video interview.
• Competitive competency-based interview.
• Presentation

A panel may be formed from this competition from which current and future, permanent, fixed term and specified purpose vacancies may be filled over the next 12 months. 

If your application contains gaps of employment within in your CV, please be advised that under HIQA, TUSLA and CORU regulations we are required to have explanatory information for these time periods. These must be provided with your application.

Why work for us?

St John of God offers a range of benefits to staff including the following:

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Annual Increments
• Comprehensive induction training and continued in-house training/ professional development
• 30 days annual leave (pro-rata)
• Paid sick leave (minimum service period applies)
• Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave (minimum service period applies)
• Opportunities for career progression
• Public Pension Scheme
• Group Health Insurance Scheme through VHI
• Group HSF Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Closing Date

4h October 2024

Informal inquiries to Lonan Durand, Financial Controller on +353 (83) (phone number removed) or (email address removed)

Job description available on request.

Occupop Reference: CMS-SEP-2024-03

St John of God Community Services are equal opportunities employers.

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