Health Care First Partnership

Finance Assistant / Junior Finance Manager

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Job summary

A great part-time opportunity to drive financial excellence within an innovative NHS GP practice.

We are recruiting a part-time Finance Assistant/Junior Finance Manager to help manage day to financial operations of the business.

As a vital member of our team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring efficient financial management, this will include elements of booking keeping, accounts payable and receivable management, and payroll support.

The ideal candidate will have:

Essential

  • A financial qualification or certificate, or previous experience as a Finance Assistant/Junior Finance Manager/Clerk
  • Excel
  • Use of accounting software such as XERO

Desirable

  • Working in Primary Care/NHS

Main duties of the job

Payroll & Pensions: Making sure our teams get paid!

Finance: Making sure we get paid and we pay on time.

About us

Health Care First Partnership (HCF) is a partnership formed by a group of high-quality practices: Dr Bance & Partners, Ferrybridge Medical Centre, Queen Street Surgery and FMC Health Solutions Limited (t/a Park View Surgery). We came together to deliver modern services that are high quality and will meet the needs of our patients into the future.

HCF is a General Practice Partnership open to all patients living within our practice boundary within Methley, Castleford, Ferrybridge, Airedale, Normanton and surrounding villages. We work in partnership with our patients and our Patient Forum to provide medical care for our patients.

We are a Personal Medical Services (PMS) practice offering Primary Care Services for the diagnosis and prevention of disease. We help patients to manage their health and prevent illness. Our GPs assess, diagnose, treat and manage illness. They carry out screening for some diseases and promote general health and wellbeing. Our GPs act as a patients advocate, supporting and representing a patients best interests to ensure they receive the best and most appropriate health and/or social care.

The Practice has a current list size of 31,500 patients and we are part of the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (formerly NHS Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group).

Details

Date posted

27 June 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£24,898 a year Salary based on WTE

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A1815-24-0000

Job locations

Pinfold Surgery

Pinfold Lane

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS26 9AA


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification which details the full remit of the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification which details the full remit of the role.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in teams and able to promote a team spirit

Desirable

  • Experience of working within health care

Skills and Qualities

Essential

  • Good organisational and administration skills.
  • Problem solving skills.
  • Ability to prioritise and manage own workloads.
  • Ability to ensure attention to detail is maintained.
  • Ability to meet deadlines
  • Ability to demonstrate good communication skills both orally and written.
  • Ability to demonstrate good IT skills
  • Self motivating and self confident, able to work with minimal direction
  • Enthusiasm, with energy, drive and a determination to deliver an excellent service
  • Trustworthy, honest, caring and sympathetic
  • Hard working, reliable and resourceful
  • Willing to work flexible hours as necessary
  • Considered, steady approach
  • Non smoking environment
  • Experience of application of data protection and confidentiality procedures

Desirable

  • Knowledge of Accountancy/Payroll packages
  • Ability to travel to meetings

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE standard (or equivalent), to include Mathematics and English (Grade C/5 or above).

Desirable

  • ECDL or equivalent qualification
  • Evidence of a commitment to continuing professional development and to undertake AAT Apprenticeship.
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in teams and able to promote a team spirit

Desirable

  • Experience of working within health care

Skills and Qualities

Essential

  • Good organisational and administration skills.
  • Problem solving skills.
  • Ability to prioritise and manage own workloads.
  • Ability to ensure attention to detail is maintained.
  • Ability to meet deadlines
  • Ability to demonstrate good communication skills both orally and written.
  • Ability to demonstrate good IT skills
  • Self motivating and self confident, able to work with minimal direction
  • Enthusiasm, with energy, drive and a determination to deliver an excellent service
  • Trustworthy, honest, caring and sympathetic
  • Hard working, reliable and resourceful
  • Willing to work flexible hours as necessary
  • Considered, steady approach
  • Non smoking environment
  • Experience of application of data protection and confidentiality procedures

Desirable

  • Knowledge of Accountancy/Payroll packages
  • Ability to travel to meetings

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE standard (or equivalent), to include Mathematics and English (Grade C/5 or above).

Desirable

  • ECDL or equivalent qualification
  • Evidence of a commitment to continuing professional development and to undertake AAT Apprenticeship.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Health Care First Partnership

Address

Pinfold Surgery

Pinfold Lane

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS26 9AA


Employer's website

https://www.healthcarefirst.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Health Care First Partnership

Address

Pinfold Surgery

Pinfold Lane

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS26 9AA


Employer's website

https://www.healthcarefirst.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of People

Sarah Hiscoe

sarah.hiscoe@nhs.net

01977664509

Details

Date posted

27 June 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£24,898 a year Salary based on WTE

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A1815-24-0000

Job locations

Pinfold Surgery

Pinfold Lane

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS26 9AA


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