Relief Administrator

**Relief Administrator**
**National role with main focus across the North area**
**Hybrid with travel to care homes**
**Permanent**
**Full Time (37.5 Hours)**
**£28,500 + Fantastic Benefits & company car**

Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

**Role Overview**

As a Relief Administrator you will be part of a central finance support team and will responsible for covering periods of absence of financial administrators in our Bupa Care homes. Working closely with the relevant Senior Financial Administrators and central office colleagues, you will be responsible for providing system support and policy compliance when covering the financial administration function within a Care Home, ensuring they are working to Bupa specified policy, procedures and standards.

**What you’ll do**:

- Using bespoke software to raise invoices, process income including cash allocation, complete banking and take appropriate action in relation to debt management
- Liaising with Local and Health Authorities to ensure appropriate information and payment is received
- Entering admissions & discharges, ensuring correct and complete documentation including Terms and Conditions are provided and recorded for all
- Safeguarding monies on behalf of residents and funds raised by the home, recording and reconciling transactions to bank statements and making service provider payments
- Ensuring effective administration and management of petty cash transactions and replenishment
- Responding to finance related queries
- Supporting new financial administrators in training
- You will be required to travel as part of your role with occasional overnight stays

**What you’ll bring**
- Experience of financial administration systems, procedures and processes in Care/Nursing Homes
- Organised with an eye for detail
- Proven ability to work on own initiative
- Experience of working in accounts or credit control desired
- Confidence and credibility to operate within the region
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external people e.g. regional teams and Local Authorities
- Able to work autonomously and with mínimal supervision

**Why Bupa?**

We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.
Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. It’s important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically. You will be eligible for:

- 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
- Annual performance-based bonus as part of the Staff Bonus Scheme
- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
- Various other benefits and online discounts

**Diversity and Inclusion**

Bupa is committed to making sure that every applicant is assessed solely on personal merit and qualifications. We actively celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and provide an inclusive environment so you can bring your true self to Bupa. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly. That’s why we’re happy to offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Whether you’ve found your feet or are discovering a new path.
Welcome to a place that celebrates you.
This isn’t where you've been.
This is where you're going.
This is what we have belief in.

Time Type:
Full time
Job Area:
Administration
Locations:
Home Based c/o Kirkstall Forge, Midlands Region, Northern Region, Various Locations