Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Responsible for secure handling, recording and banking of the Trusts income from a variety of sources to ensure all financial timetables are met.
* Responsible for accurately receipting income received directly into the Trusts bank accounts.
* Book keeping entries ensuring the integrity of the ledger is maintained.
* Responsibility for producing a section of the control accounts and alerting the Financial and Business Support Accountants to any problems and recommending appropriate remedial action.
Ensure daily cash sheets are checked and signed in line with financial procedures.
* Responsible for collecting cash from vending machines and other collection boxes and ensuring this cash is allocated correctly.
* To provide reimbursement for patients' travel expenses under the Hospital Travel Costs Scheme as required. Handling queries and disputes in a sensitive manner.
* To analyse and interpret financial reports to identify errors and discrepancies stemming from the receipting of cash.
Ensure petty cash reimbursements are authorised in line with financial procedures and with evidence of receipts in accordance with Standing Financial Instructions.
* Responsible for managing petty cash floats including year-end reconciliation and agreements.
* To provide advice to managers and staff in the hospital re the control and handling of patient's valuables. Responsible for safe-keeping of patients cash & valuables.
* Liaison with visitors, patients and other departments of the trust in order to investigate and resolve cash office queries in person, by telephone and in writing.
* Fast and accurate input of information to financial systems and spreadsheets requiring keyboard work for much of the day.
* Any other duties as may be required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* GCSE Grade C or over, including English and Mathematics (or equivalent)
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
* IT skills, incorporating the input of financial data, creation and manipulation of spreadsheets
* Ability to process large volumes of data input
* Organised and methodical
* Good attention to detail
* Questioning mind
* Good communicator, both written and orally
Desirable criteria
* Good working knowledge of cashiering function
Experience
Essential criteria
* Working with spreadsheets and on computer systems
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. We would advise that you complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
Documents to download
* Apprentice Financial Accounts Assistant ( PDF, 312.4 KB )
* Trust Values ( PDF, 577.9 KB )
* Band 3 ( PDF, 143.6 KB )
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