Job summary
- Main area
- Pathology
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-NWLP-249
- Employer
- North West London Pathology
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 pa inclusive pro rota
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Accounts Receivable Officer
Band 6
North West London Pathology (NWLP) is an NHS pathology partnership joint venture between Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. NWLP is modelled as a shared services organisation jointly owned by the three Trusts. The organisation is hosted by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and as the legal entity for NWLP our staff are employed by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
NWLP is based on a ‘hub and spoke’ structure; the majority of routine, specialist and non-urgent activity is centralised at our hub site at Charing Cross Hospital. Urgent tests required for immediate patient management and treatment are performed in 24/7 Essential Service Laboratories based on-site within the seven hospital sites in the group.
The partnership has created an innovative and sustainable service that delivers outstanding quality to users and patients alike. This innovative approach allows the service to better manage demand, standardise operations, improve value for money and make use of state-of-the-art technology.
Our values are to be patient-focused, collaborative, expert and caring.
Job overview
As the Accounts Receivable Supervisor you will be taking ownership and accountability for the credit control activities for North West London Pathology (NWLP), minimising bad debt whilst maximising profit through chasing NHS & Non-NHS clients and thereby ensuring prompt payment of outstanding invoices.
You will bring strong financial guidance and advice for NWLP staff to support a clear understanding of the financial plans and performance and providing financial training to key operational personnel.
Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will have a key role in maintaining strong financial rigour in our organisation.
The role will primarily be based at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, with the potential to travel to the partner sites as required. We value relationships and feel that face to face communication is important.
However, we care about how you work rather than where you work, so the role is open to remote working meaning you aren’t required to be in the office 5 days a week. We’d welcome a conversation with the successful candidate about what remote working looks like for you.
Main duties of the job
- The purpose of this role is to take ownership and accountability for the credit control activities for North West London Pathology (NWLP), minimise bad debt whilst maximising profit through chasing NHS & Non-NHS clients and thereby ensuring prompt payment of outstanding invoices.
- To take responsibility for contacting NHS and Non-NHS clients in accordance with our Credit Control processes and procedures, chasing outstanding payments and finding issues to credit control issues on a case by case basis.
- To responsibility for managing high volume, high value and high complex accounts, regularly liaising with customers to identify queries on invoices that must be paid.
- To provide and present NWLP Aged Debt Reports to NWLP Finance Director & Head of Finance with the relevant validation checks, analysis and trend reviews to ensure that reported data is complete and accurate.
- To review, develop and implement revised procedures in line with the changing needs and systems used by the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Benefits include career development, flexible working, staff wellbeing programmes, staff awards and recognition scheme. We also have available benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
NWLP Induction
The NWLP induction will run on the first Monday of each month (provided it does not fall on a bank holiday) and includes laboratory training (for relevant laboratory roles). All new staff must attend the NWLP induction during their first week with NWLP.
For 2024/25, see below the start dates which you will be able to book once you have completed all your pre-employment checks.
- Monday 2 December 2024
- Monday 6 January 2025
- Monday 3 February 2025
- Monday 3 March 2025
- Monday 7 April 2025
- Monday 12 May 2025
- Monday 2 June 2025
- Monday 7 July 2025
- Monday 4 August 2025
- Monday 1 September 2025
- Monday 6 October 2025
- Monday 3 November 2025
- Monday 1 December 2025
Candidates are advised to consider these start dates before agreeing end of service date with their current employer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- IAPP ICM
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working within the NHS or similar complex organisation
- Have specialist knowledge of Credit Control processes and systems, as well as general financial and management knowledge.
- Have experience in a range of accounting areas, financial computer systems and some knowledge of accounting legislation
- Experience of computerised financial systems as well as PC based facilities such as spreadsheets, databases etc
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to concentrate for long periods of time, often analysing complex data
- Willingness to actively participate in implementation procedures in order to meet deadlines
- A good organiser with realistic time management skills.
- Able to produce reports using data that are comprehensive and meet requirements of operational partners
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sean Baxter
- Job title
- Head Of Finance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07818272720
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