Job summary

The postholder will join a friendly and supportive Financial Services team, working within the Trust Cash Team to help maintain strong financial control across the organisation. You will be responsible for processing financial information in line with established procedures and providing reliable, professional accounting support to ensure the accuracy of the Trust's main exchequer accounts and other areas including patient funds.

To support the cashier functions across the organisation

To contribute to the production of the Trust's annual statutory accounts and carry out tasks related to the annual audit

Main duties of the job

• Manage the reconciliation of control accounts within the team
• Support the Trust Treasury Management activities
• Manage and support the Senior Finance Assistant, Finance Assistant and Finance Trainee within the Cash Team
• Ensure all patient affairs and cashiering tasks are undertaken promptly and accurately, liaise with the service in respect of patients for whom the Trust is corporate appointee.
• Liaise with cashiers across the Trust providing guidance and support for any cash related issues or queries
• Suggest changes to and implement accounting and financial policies and procedures in own area
• Oversee and supervise the daily activities of colleagues within the cash team (3 direct reports)
• Ability to work with limited guidance and instruction whilst maintaining professional and organisational standards
• Provide a key role in the year end accounting processes

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence