Bank Accountancy Assistant - Chester, United Kingdom - Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Chester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

A great opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and self-motivated person to join the busy Financial Services, Accounts Payable Team at The Countess of Chester Hospital.

As a member of the Financial Services Team, you will contribute to providing an efficient and effective accounting service to the Trust Directorates and Service Departments.

To undertake the input and payment of invoices in accordance with the Trust's Standing Financial Instructions. To ensure queries are resolved in a timely manner.

Reporting to the Finance Team Manager the post holder will be responsible for the processing of purchase ledger invoices and credit notes, but will also include reconciliations and other duties.

The post holder will also be required to reconcile supplier statements and resolve supplier queries.

The tasks will involve both working as part of a team and independently and require a keen attention to detail.

Experience in the use of Microsoft Excel and Word as well as experience of an integrated computerised accounting system would be an advantage

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership.

Its services are provided from three locations:

The Countess of Chester Hospital:
providing 438 general and acute beds

Ellesmere Port Hospital:
providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility

Tarporley War Memorial Hospital:
a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000.

This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery.

This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.