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**About The Company**
**About Handsale Ltd**:
Handsale Ltd is a privately-owned healthcare company that currently owns and operates Eight Care Homes across England, Wales and Scotland. Founded in 1988 as a family business, Handsale has proudly maintained its family owned and operated structure to this day. Handsale has over 30 years’ experience in healthcare and is a well-respected group in the industry. The Company operates 523 beds and employs over 650 people. Each Handsale care home is exactly that - a home. They are all situated in carefully chosen areas where their residents can continue to lead fulfilling lives while feeling confident and secure. The homes are run with an ethos based on quality, trust and support. Handsale prides itself on being an integral part of each of the communities it serves.
**Priesty Fields Care Home - Handsale Ltd**:
Please visit our Facebook Page Priesty Fields Care Home to keep update to date with all the new and exciting progress the home made up to its opening.
**Responsibilities**

We are looking for a friendly, passionate Care Home Administrator to join our new care home.

We are a leading provider of residential, nursing and EMI care homes within England, Scotland and Wales. We are a family run organisation who are big enough to innovate, however small enough to care. We have a passion for our colleagues and continually grow our Staff First approach ensuring our colleagues have the best environment to work in.

Please visit our Facebook Page Priesty Fields Care Home to keep update to date with all the new and exciting progress the home has made up to its opening.

**Your Role**

As a Care Home Administrator, you will be the first point of call for communications and it is important you create a professional and vibrant environment, you will be responsible for supporting the delivery of high quality care showing warmth and compassion to our residents and their families. This role requires a variation of tasks and will be suited with someone who has excellent time management with the ability to multi task effectively.

**Responsibilities and Duties of Care Home Administrator**
- Maintain accurate and complete financial records of the Care Centre in line with Company policies and procedures, using computer and manual systems.
- Prepare and issue regular Management Reports within the prescribed timescales.
- Process receipts of monies against Residents’ accounts. Maintain records. Prepare and submit relevant Resident financial information to the Sales Ledger Department to ensure that invoices to Clients, Local Authorities or person so responsible are produced accurately and promptly.
- Follow up settlement of same using manual records and specialised computer software.
- Liaise with and assist Credit Control Department to resolve any outstanding issues.
- Ensure continuity of the Payroll. Arrange the accurate calculation of gross wages on a weekly basis using computer and manual systems.
- Maintain Staff attendance records.
- Maintain accurate and complete files for Clients and Staff Members in line with the Company’s policies and procedures.
- Provide administrative / secretarial support to the Home Manager e.g. typing, filing, dealing with correspondence etc, within given timescales.
- Support with potential client show rounds, promoting the Home, demonstrating what the home has to offer.
- Answer the telephone, respond to enquiries from Clients and Visitors at Reception, and re-direct enquiries in a friendly and efficient manner.
- Maintain stationery supplies.
- Order and maintain records of Staff Members’ uniforms.
- Arrange and calculate monthly stock takes and costs.
- Participate in Staff and Client meetings, as and when required.
- Attend mandatory training days/courses, on or off site, as and when required.
- Report immediately to the Home Manager, or Person in Charge, any illness of an infectious nature or accident incurred by a Client, colleague, self or another.
- Understand and ensure the implementation of the Care Centre’s Health and Safety policy, and Emergency and Fire procedures. Report to the Home Manager, or the Maintenance, any faulty appliances, damaged furniture, equipment or any potential hazard. Promoting a safe working practice in the Care Centre.
- Ensure that all information of confidential nature gained in the course of duty is not divulged to third parties.
- Adhere and promote the companies GDPR policies and procedures.
- Adhere to all Company policies and procedures within the defined timescales.

**Qualifications and Skills**
**Qualifications and Skills**

**Required**:

- Good numerical and word processing skills
- Knowledge / experience of MS Word and MS Excel
- Friendly, confident, well-presented and customer-focused Professional telephone manner
- An appreciation of need for confidentiality
- Satisfactory Enhanced DBS

**Desired**:

- Knowledge / experience of MS Outlook
- Previous experience of accounting computer packages
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