Spire Healthcare

Spire Healthcare Experts in private healthcare
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. Our purpose is to make a positive difference to our insured, self-pay and NHS patients’ lives through outstanding personalised care. Everyone at Spire is aligned to this purpose, which makes a positive difference to all our colleagues instilling a culture of respect, inclusion and collaboration across the business. From their 39 hospitals and eight clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, they provide diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care in areas including orthopaedics, gynaecology, cardiology, neurology, oncology and general surgery. They are the principal independent provider by volume of the knee and hip operations in the United Kingdom and they also own and operate sports medicine, physiotherapy and rehabilitation brand – Perform.

Working in partnership with 7,300 experienced consultants, their hospitals delivered tailored, personalised care to 810,000 inpatients and day-case patients in 2019.

The group was founded with the acquisition and re-branding of 25 Bupa hospitals in 2007. Since then, Spire Healthcare has made significant capital investments in its estate and continues to deliver successful and award-winning clinical outcomes and high levels of patient satisfaction. Spire is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Spire Healthcare is committed to the highest quality of patient care. They were the first private hospital provider to publish outcomes data on our website and they have received awards for our clinical quality and high levels of patient satisfaction.

Situation
An internal review of the Commercial Finance and Transactions Shared Services communities identified the need to leverage higher calibre and quality of operationally focused finance specialists and senior clerical accounting support staff that reflected the redesigned business. Key objectives included:

  • Replacement of those individuals leaving the organisation
  • Dissolution of the internal audit function and development of a commercially focused accounting function
  • Additional development of customer-focused transactions accounting support function
  • Rationalisation of teams and the recruitment of more “business-minded” Management Accountants, Operations Finance Analysts, Area Finance Analysts, Regional Financial Controllers, Operations Financial Controller and senior transaction accounting support staff, raising the quality of work delivered in each hospital

The project resulted in the successful recruitment of 23 qualified & part qualified accountants and 14 transaction accounting individuals in Phase 1, with additional recruitment on phases 2 and 3. Success on Phase 1 project management led to our inclusion into the Group preferred supplier list with ongoing recruitment for both Spire Healthcare and BUPA.

Harcourt Matthews has established several recruitment campaigns and range of candidate sourcing processes to attract a wide range of candidate types encompassing:

  • Accessing our network & extensive CV database, existing contacts and gaining new referrals / recommendations
  • Accessing several jobsite CV databases covering the active UK candidate market
  • Advertising on several job boards
  • Using our internal and several 3rd party outsourced research businesses contracted to identify and to supply scarce candidate resource (passive & non active people)
  • Specific sector headhunting campaigns complementing the above approach
  • Messaging programmes to specific accounting & finance trained CIMA, ACCA and ACA individuals who fulfilled the Accounting & Finance brief

This has resulted in the successful recruitment of several qualified accountants & part qualified accountants and inclusion as a preferred supplier list for the UK business

Jobs supported & recruited for include: Interim, temporary & permanent

Hospitals Finance & Head Office roles
Commercial Finance Manager
Financial Analyst
Finance Manager – Birmingham & Solihull & Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
Finance Manager – Edinburgh, Scotland
Finance Manager – Harpenden & Bushey (Watford), Hertfordshire
Finance Manager – Leeds, West Yorkshire
Finance Manager – Leicester
Finance Manager – Liverpool & Wirral, Merseyside
Finance Manager – London
Finance Manager – Manchester & Macclesfield & Warrington, Cheshire
Finance Manager – Norwich, Norfolk & Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Finance Manager – Portsmouth, Havant, Hampshire
Finance Manager – Reading, Berkshire & Slough, Buckinghamshire & Farnham, Surrey
Finance Manager – Southampton, Hampshire
Finance Manager – Brentwood, Redbridge (Ilford), Southend On Sea, Essex
Finance Manager – Chatham, Hythe & Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Finance Manager – Wirral & Warrington
Operational Auditor Manager
Operational Financial Controller
Operations Business Analyst
Operations Finance Analyst
Operations Finance Manager
Project Analyst
Regional Commercial Financial Controller
Senior Financial Analyst Projects
Senior Finance Analyst
Senior Management Accountant