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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.

*Timeline*

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

My name is Amy Denning and I am the Senior Finance Manager for Central and Corporate Services at Airedale NHS Trust.

Like many other NHS departments across the country, finance and procurement staff at Gloucestershire Hospitals were told to work from home from 23rd March 2020; in response to Covid-19 and protecting the safety of staff.  Whilst many people work from home occasionally, doing this long term has felt like a new phenomenon for these departments.  On the 24th March,

During the lockdown period in Mar 2020, my trust, Alder Hey, were asking for volunteers to assist the clinical ward staff; with refilling stock cupboards around the hospitals or helping ward housekeepers with their role, to free up some of their time to assist the nurses treating COVID patients. With the pandemic sweeping the world, various members of staff absent with the sickness or shielding

Several staff from the finance team at Harrogate and District NHS FT offered their support to the PPE team during the pandemic, and at the time they were not sure what was going to be expected of them but they knew they wanted to help out wherever they could.