Job summary
- Main area
- Admin
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6423230IO
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cobalt
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Finance Officer (Accounts Receivable)
NHS AfC: Band 3
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
The Financial Services section is responsible for the many of the core functions of the Finance Department including accounts payable and receivables, cash and banking and the preparation of statutory financial statements and returns.
Due to the internal promotion of the existing postholder a vacancy has arisen for an Accounts Receivable Officer.
As well as assisting with the raising of sales invoices and dealing with queries relating to these invoices a key aspect of the role will be work on credit control.
This involves liaising mainly with other NHS Organisations and Local Authorities as well as some private sector customers. Experience in credit control would be useful but more important are good communication skills and the willingness to get involved in credit control.
The successful applicant will also assist the Receivables Team Manager in liaising with patients and insurance companies over billing and collection of payments for private patient treatments.
Main duties of the job
Ensure invoices and credit notes are processed in accordance with procedures, investigate enquires and queries and provides advice as required.
Supports AR Team Leader with month end procedures and Oracle housekeeping tasks.
Contacts customers directly to enquire over late or non-payment.
To produce timely and accurate control account reconciliations in accordance with agreed timetables and procedures for review by the Finance Managers. This will include the need to ensure that all necessary journals have been raised and amendments made and recommending options to address discrepancies arising on the reconciliations.
To support to the Trust's Treasury Management function, providing necessary support and cover for the cashiers when required.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder must be able to plan and prepare own work within timescales without direct supervision. Responsible for ensuring timetables are met for processing of invoices and closure of Accounts Receivable in accordance with Finance Dept month end timetable.
The post holder will organise their own workload to ensure such timetables are adhered to.
They are also responsible for planning and organizing work in order to ensure medium term objectives are achieved.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- AAT intermediate level/NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent level of knowledge gained through relevant experience)
- GCSE Maths, English (or equivalent portfolio of experience)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Denise Johnstone
- Job title
- Team Manager Accounts Receivables
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2031541
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