Financial Investigation and Intelligence Support Officer | NHS Counter Fraud Authority
| Posting date: | 04 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,049 - £37,796 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 October 2025 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV1 2WT |
| Company: | NHS Counter Fraud Authority |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7430870/076-CFA7430870 |
Summary
The NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) is the national body responsible for all matters relating to the prevention, detection and investigation of economic crime across the NHS. Further information about our work and annual plan for delivering this is available on our website.
We have a permanent, part-time role (30 Hours a Week) working as part of a team dedicated to adding value to criminal investigations and seeking to exploit every opportunity available to return the proceeds of crime to front-line NHS Trusts affected by fraud and acquisitive crime. The Financial Investigation & Intelligence Team utilises sources of financial intelligence to enhance the investigators decision-making in respect of further reasonable lines of enquiry; no previous experience or accreditation is required as full training and guidance will be provided.
Potential applicants can contact Steve Wright at steve.wright@nhscfa.gov.uk for an informal chat if you have any questions regarding the role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the advertised closing date should we receive a significant number of applications.
Interviews will be held online.
The post holder will be required to have NPPV2
The post holder will be responsible for providing financial investigation and intelligence support functions to Investigators and Financial Investigators within NHS CFA and Investigators across the widerNHS Counter Fraud community in England
The post holder will support this activity byachieving and/or maintaining NCA accreditation as a current and competent financial Intelligence Officer, providing lawfully obtained financial intelligence to assist in identifying those cases that are suitable for fraud prevention financial investigation or asset recovery activity at the earliest opportunity and supporting financial investigations undertaken by NHS CFA accredited financial investigators.All work to be carried out to a standard required by the appropriate Courts, Crown Prosecution Service relevant legislation and best practice.
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We have offices based in Coventry, Newcastle and London and offer flexible, hybrid, office and home-based working. In addition to the advertised salary working in the London area will attract High-Cost Area Supplement where appropriate. The NHSCFA values and respects the diversity of its employees and aims to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including an invitation to the first stage of the selection process and consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability. If you are applying to undertake this role on a secondment basis you should have agreement to being released from your current role in principle, prior to submitting an application form. When you apply for this role, you will be redirected to our recruitment system TRAC.The NHSCFA does not hold a sponsor licence in respect of skilled worker visas and so is unable to employ candidates requiring sponsorship.
· Establish and maintain effective liaison with other stakeholders at all levels across both the NHS CFA and the wider NHS Counter Fraud community to ensure the timeous dissemination of financial intelligence to support fraud prevention, financial investigation and asset recovery activity.
· Provision of financial intelligence to assist in identifying those cases that are suitable for financial investigation or asset recovery activity at the earliest opportunity
· Responsible for the efficient management of the CFA Suspicious Activity Reporting (SARs) process, maintaining clearly auditable records concerning the evaluation and disposal of all SARs.
· Working on own initiative analyse and develop financial intelligence data to maximise proactive opportunities for financial investigation and asset recovery activity.Identifying any suspected offences, passing this information via the correct intelligence system to the tasking process.
Please see full Job Description and Person Specification.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Sep 2025