Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-8919-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern General Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/03/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/03/2025
Employer heading
Accounts Receivable Manager
NHS AfC: Band 5
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Applications are invited from motivated and enthusiastic individuals to work as a member of the Accounts Receivable team.
The post holder will work as a member of a team responsible for providing an income/credit management and control service to the Trust over its entire range of activities (including Overseas Visitors, Private Patients, Nursery and Research) and also provides financial debt and governance advice to all Clinical and Corporate Directorates.
We spend around £1.5billion each year to provide over two million patient episodes, and it is essential that we have the best team helping and supporting us in being the best organisation we can possibly be. To help us do this we are now seeking an Accounts Receivable Manager within the Accounts Receivable team.
Main duties of the job
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (STH) is one of the best providers of healthcare in the country with an outstanding reputation for saving lives and caring for patients and helping thousands of people every day. Our teams work with health and social care partners across the whole of South Yorkshire, East Midlands and nationally, and with a range of other key local “anchor institutions” such as the City Council and the Universities, to make a difference to local people, their health and wellbeing.
The new postholder will work closely with a friendly and supportive team as well as clinical and corporate colleagues to support a first-class Finance team to ensure we provide the best possible care to patients and deliver the best value for money for the people of Sheffield, South Yorkshire and beyond. An effective working knowledge of IT packages and MS Windows, and strong numerical and team working skills are essential. Excellent communication skills and the ability to meet tight deadlines are vital. NHS experience and knowledge is desirable but not essential.
We are committed to recruiting and developing a diverse pool of talented people who want to be part of making STH a thriving and PROUD* place to work and ensuring we continue to flourish and succeed in improving the lives of the people we are proud to serve. If we sound like the kind of organisation you would like to work in, we would be delighted to speak to you about this role.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
STH is the largest employer in the region and we are committed to providing a great place to work for all our staff across our hospitals and community services. We are a highly vibrant organisation with some of the highest levels of staff retention of any major employer in the country and our staff consistently rate us as a safe and supportive place to work.
Treating our staff well is at the heart of who we are as an employer and we provide first class salary packages including above average holiday entitlement and a wide range of flexible benefits such as an excellent pension scheme, childcare and holiday clubs, education and development opportunities, staff discounts on a wide range of products, shops and services, as well as car parking and great accessibility on public transport.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- AAT qualified OR Part CCAB qualified, or equivalent. OR Credit Management Qualification AICM/MICM Grad
Desirable criteria
- European Computer Driving Licence (or equivalent)
- Honours Degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Sufficient relevant practical experience in an Accounts Receivable function.
- Demonstrable experience of successfully meeting/exceeding targets and KPIs within a sales ledger environment.
- Demonstrable experience of leading finance system development and functionality implementation.
- Demonstrable experience of governance arrangements in relation to Accounts Receivable.
- Staff supervisory experience.
- Knowledge of finance and accounting practices, procedures and policies, particularly those pertinent to the NHS.
- Experience of manipulating/ interrogating ledger and information systems.
- Demonstrably good IT skills including Advanced Excel skills
Desirable criteria
- Additional experience of working in a relevant financial environment.
- Knowledge and understanding of NHS Financial regime, in particular the Overseas Visitors and Private Patient frameworks.
- Knowledge and understanding of VAT regime as applicable to NHS services.
- Experience of Integra ledger system
- Experience of the Legal Debt recovery Process.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and good verbal reasoning.
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
- Ability to meet deadlines through effective organisational and planning skills.
- Ability to motivate and develop teams to achieve performance targets.
- Positive Team Player.
- Flexible and adaptable - able to manage competing and changing workloads.
- Ability to work under own initiative.
- Methodical approach to work.
- Conscientious.
- Meticulous.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to question and learn quickly.
- High degree of numeracy
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Evidence of current CPD
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kim Milner
- Job title
- Chief Income Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01142266088
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