NHS of the future
Making NHS Finance an attractive, sustainable, and a great place to work.
What’s on offerThe Midlands Finance Academy runs four workstreams which are overseen by the Academy Board, and each area is delivered by a working group of NHS finance volunteers.
The NHS of the future group has been focusing on supporting organisations in their accreditation journey, understanding the apprenticeship and work experience offerings across the region to identify gaps, launching a Midlands Health and Wellbeing Network and funding Mental Health First Aid training. We are also a key group to support the Academy Board in moving forward with the Insights Placement Scheme as it develops over the coming years.
In 2025-26 we will be starting to focus on financial sustainability and green plans, as well as expanding our promotion of NHS finance as a career in order to encourage new and diverse talent into the NHS finance function.
The group meets bi-monthly for a one-hour meeting, and the ask of time and resource from members between meetings is kept to a minimum.
Please contact becky.jenvey@hfma.org.uk if you are interested in joining.
Our work
Mental Health First Aid Training
Become a Mental Health First Aider with funded training from the Midlands Finance Academy. A Mental Health First Aider is qualified to identify, understand and help someone who may be experiencing a mental health issue.
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Midlands Health and Wellbeing Network
The Midlands Finance Academy will be providing colleagues in the Midlands with various national and regional resources to support staff. To get started, make sure you have a Health and Wellbeing Champion at your organisation!
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Midlands Insights Placement Scheme
The Insights Placement Scheme is a 12-month paid work experience placement at Band 2, designed as a pre-apprenticeship programme and aimed specifically at school leavers (18+) from lower socio-economic backgrounds and low-income families.
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Access Accountancy
We are pleased to announce that the Midlands, alongside all of the NHS in England, is now a signatory for Access Accountancy (previously just the East of England). This means all NHS finance departments can now take part in this initiative.
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Promoting NHS Finance as a career
The Midlands Finance Academy will be helping to promote NHS finance as a career within the region. To get started, visit the Careers in NHS Finance to discover opportunities, resources, vacancies and programmes and events.
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Towards Excellence Accreditation
The Toward Excellence Accreditation recognises the best in culture, skills and processes in NHS finance. There are three levels and the best finance teams in the country achieve full accreditation.
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