Accounts Receivable Clerk

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 29.000 - 35.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Credit Control professional to oversee the accounts receivable function and maintain the debtor system. The role requires training staff, ensuring standards, and adherence to Standing Financial Instructions.

The post involves clear communication of financial matters to clinicians and managers, and timely invoicing for NHS SLAs with reliable payments.

Qualifikationen

• Professional qualification such as AAT Technician Level, or equivalent.
• Excellent use of Oracle system within Finance environment.
• Experience of Accounts Receivable Systems; numerate; excellent communication skills.
• Ability to motivate and prioritise workloads.
• Good organisational skills and ability to work on own initiative.
• Knowledge of NHS environment; willing to implement change.

Aufgaben

• Supervise the accounts receivable section on a daily basis and maintain the Accounts Receivable Debtor System.
• Assist the AR Team Leader in training staff to the agreed standard.
• Ensure compliance with the Trust's Standing Financial Instructions.
• Communicate complex financial matters to clinicians, managers and administrators.
• Ensure invoices for NHS Service Level Agreements are raised correctly and payments are received on time.

Kenntnisse

Numerate

Communication skills

Motivate

Organisational skills

Prioritise workloads

Work on own initiative

NHS environment knowledge

Ausbildung

AAT Technician Level

Tools

Oracle Financials

Accounts Receivable Systems

Jobbeschreibung

The post holder will be responsible for the Credit Control function of the section and will include supervising the accounts receivable section on a daily basis and for maintaining the Accounts Receivable Debtor System. The post holder will assist the Accounts Receivable Team Leader in ensuring that staff within the section are adequately trained to perform their duties to an agreed standard and that the Trusts' Standing Financial Instructions are followed at all times. Main duties of the job: While responsible to the Head of Accounts Receivable this post requires a high level of initiative in dealing with queries from Managers, Doctors and other staff within the Trust. Decisions on day to day operational issues can be made, however the Head of Accounts Receivable would make decisions in respect of the more complex/strategic issues. It would be expected a member of staff in this post would to a large extent manage and prioritise their own workload, to ensure predetermined deadlines are met in a timely manner. This post requires excellent communication and working relationships within the Finance Department, the Trust and externally. In particular the post has to deal with a high volume of queries. It is expected that the post holder would communicate complex financial matters to non financial staff such as Clinicians, Clinical Managers and administrators. The post holder will be responsible for supervising staff on the section particularly in the absence of the section manager, there is also a responsibility to train new staff in what is quite a technically demanding role. Responsible for ensuring that invoices raised in respect of NHS Service Level Agreements are raised in accordance with Treasury Management Guidelines and payments are received on a timely basis.

The nature of the position requires that the post plays an important role in the financial reporting of the Trust. High levels of IT skills are essential to deal with the wide range of systems used within the department. It is expected that the post holder would be actively pursuing a recognised professional qualification, or possess the equivalent experience.

• Professional Qualification such as AAT (Technician Level) or equivalent, Essential criteria
• Excellent use of Oracle system within Finance environment
• Experience of Accounts Receivable Systems, Numerate, Excellent communication skills
• Ability to motivate
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to prioritise workloads
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of NHS Environment, Highly Motivated and willing to implement change
• Good Organisational Skills
• Good Communication Skills
• Ability to prioritise workloads

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities – from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award‑winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work‑life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under‑represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero‑tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.