Senior Cashier

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.

Nearly 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us

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JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

YOUR APPLICATION

**Job overview**:
The senior cashier provides a comprehensive service to patients, staff, general public, and other Government Bodies in respect of all cash received for NSFT and patients who hand over personal funds and property for safe keeping as well as reimbursement of allowable expenses.

The post-holder will deal with all aspects of cash receipt and disbursement, ensuring that all cash received are recorded and banked efficiently and accurately, and that all reimbursements are appropriately authorised and in line with the necessary policies and regulations.

**Main duties of the job**:
To provide a full Cashier/disbursement service to staff, service users and visitors to the Hospital including regular reconciliations, investigation of differences and disbursements.

To provide accounting for patients’ funds including regular reconciliations, investigation of differences and disbursements in connection with the existing, deceased and discharged patients.

To support the Financial Services team as and when required.

**Working for our organisation**:
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

**Why work for us?** We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

**Why Norfolk and Suffolk? **The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
To be responsible for the administration of the cash office and provide a focal point for problem solving and liaison as required.

To be aware of and adhere to the Trust’s Standing Financial Instructions.

To be responsible for the security and maintenance of patients’ files.

Support the clinical services by providing information on patient monies and patient assets.

Responsible for petty cash, patient monies and other reimbursements from cash floats in line with all Trust policies and procedures. Provide reimbursements as required from petty cash in line with Trust Policy. Maintain all petty cash floats at authorised levels and reconcile daily.

Recording of all local banking and input of all petty cash transactions from all Trust sites on to the general ledger.

Payment recording, reimbursement and reconciliation of patients’ monies accounts to the patient monies software and cash book. Responsible for daily reconciliation of the cash book to the patient monies system.

Provide balances from Patient monies system and distribute if required to all relevant wards and departments as requested.

Liaise with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) as and when queries arise regarding pensions/benefits. Raising cheques or arranging bacs payments on patient’s behalf for payment of bills etc.

Liaise with the Assistant Financial Services Accountant and DWP about vulnerable patients who require pensions or other benefits to be paid direct to the Trust with us being Corporate Appointee.

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