The Value Maker Annual Conference 2020 included the presentation of our Value Maker Awards! The awards were based on our four strengths framework [1] and were presented by SRO for Value Makers, Suzanne Robinson, Executive Director of Finance & IM&T at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS FT. [1] https://www.futurefocusedfinance.nhs.uk/four-strengths-nhs-finance
Value Maker Claire Harling contacted the FFF team to ask if anyone from the Value Maker network could help her.
Thank you to everyone for submitting such fantastic nominations for this year's annual Value Maker Awards!
We are delighted to confirm a further 23 accreditations were approved by the Finance Leadership Council on Thursday 10 September 2020.
I want to share my experience regarding my career break. My day job in the UK is as a senior finance manager for NECS. I generally work on assignments supporting transformation programmes, from both a programme management and finance perspective. The job requires quick thinking, strategic knowledge, obviously technical knowledge but also relationship development and management.
*Toni Trendall, a Senior Financial Accountant at NHS South, Central and West CSU was asked to share her story as a partially deaf person who became profoundly deaf, as *
To think that back in March 2020 we were all so excited to be welcoming our new recruits to the team, little did we know how different that experience was going to be.
One thing that scared me about starting my role in a virtual way was the training aspect, I had never used a finance system before so this was all so new to me. I remember on the day of my induction meeting my line manager asked me to join their team meeting that day, I felt like everybody was speaking a different language when I came out of the meeting which did scare me, but in such a short
