Finance Assessment Officer

2 months ago


Eccles, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
This is an exciting time to join the Northern Care Alliance. The Client Affairs and Client Finance team are looking to recruit a Financial Assessment Officer to join their busy team. Your mains duty will be to carry out financial assessments work on behalf of Salford City Council - we are looking to recruit someone who will bring along a fresh and energetic approach to enable us to provide a top quality services for our service users and colleagues.

Ideally you will have experience in Adult Social Care Finance and have a detailed understanding and knowledge of welfare benefits.

The Northern Care Alliance is a place where everyone can Thrive - through our core values. We are seeking to appoint a Financial Assessment Officer, who can complete accurate and timely assessments for Adult Social Care customers in accordance with legislation, policies and the working practices amongst other duties.

We are looking for self-motivated individuals who work well as part of a team with excellent communication and customer service skills.

We work with vulnerable clients and therefore someone who can demonstrate empathy and understanding of this client group is essential.

**Main duties of the job**:
Carry out financially assessments for service users in receipt of adult social care and those who have been made permanent in residential care in line with the Care Act regulations.

To monitor and audit Direct Payment accounts and recover excess balances in line with Directorate procedures.

To coordinate the ordering and distribution of monies for client affairs service users.

To maintain financial records, pay invoices, raise invoices for charges, reconcile accounts, bank and code income.

To offer support and advice to Service Users and their representatives, on financial matters pertaining to residential care and Deferred Payments.

To assess income and benefits and advise entitlement.

You will also

Gain experience of using a variety of IT packages including Microsoft Office, Business Objects, SAP, Controcc and Liquid Logic systems

Be involved in helping to develop the teams processes to enable us to streamline and improve how we do things and how we can do things even better.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT) and The Penine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (PAT). Our dedicated team of around 20,000 staff - our NCA Family - provide a range of community and hospital services to over one million people across Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Salford, as well as providing more specialist care services to patients across Greater Manchester and beyond.

Our Care Organisations are designed to operate within a group arrangement of hospitals, community, and healthcare services. Together they manage and are responsible for the day-to-day running of their hospital and community services, ensuring the safe delivery of high-quality care at scale. Due to our size and status, we can offer group-wide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and forward-thinking team. We care passionately about the experience our staff, patients, service users and their families receive day in, day out. We continue to find ways to drive forward improvements in the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local communities.

This is the place where success is achievable and every day offers the challenges, empowerment, freedom and support necessary to break new ground and improve life outcomes. If you want to play a part in creating a healthier community for Greater Manchester, take your place with us.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- GCSE English or equivalent qualification
- GCSE Maths or equivalent qualification
- NVQ 4 relevant qualification
- ECDL or equivalent computer literacy skills experience

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of working within a busy office environment
- Excellent numeracy skills and ability to undertake financial assessments
- Ability to use initiative and work with minimum supervision
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to communicate with vulnerable and diverse client group



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