Finance Assistant Apprentice

**Job Profile**

**Job Information**

**Job Title **Apprentice Finance Assistant

**Hospice Pay Band **£9,880 - £19,025 (depending on age)

**Job Summary**

Responsible for delivering high quality support and administration within the Finance Department. The
focus of this role will be to provide support across all areas of the finance function, which will provide an
excellent learning and development opportunity for someone seeking to build a career in accountancy
and finance.

**Key Responsibilities
**Main duties:
Deal with all correspondence arriving in the Finance Department, sort and distribute to the

relevant staff member as appropriate.

Entry of supplier invoices onto the finance system, allocation to managers and ensuring invoices

are received back and dealt with in a timely manner.

Dealing with managers queries on supplier invoices.

Supplier payment runs.

Provide assistance with Accounts Receivable.

Work with the Finance Assistant on bank reconciliations, income coding and allocation, accruals

and prepayments and management reporting as required.

Answer telephone and deal professionally with enquiries.

Deal appropriately with all visitors to the Finance Office.

General office duties as necessary including photocopying, ordering office stationary, filing and

archiving.

Provide cover for / assistance to other Finance Team members as deemed appropriate by the

Finance Director, in order to meet departmental requirements.

Undertake conscientiously such other tasks and responsibilities as maybe required and

reasonable in the circumstances at the time.

Undergo such training and instruction as may be required to competently carry out the needs of

the job.

Attend and participate in such meetings as may be reasonably required.

The duties and responsibilities referred to above are an outline only and may be changed from time to
time in accordance with the needs of the Hospice.

**Organisational Philosophy of Care, Purpose and Values**
Wirral Hospice St John’s aims to offer care and support for patients and their families living with a life
limiting illness based around what is important to them. It endeavours to meet the holistic needs of our
patients - physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs and support their loved ones and carers
without discrimination.

**Wirral Hospice St John’s CARES**
So that we can deliver on our Philosophy of Care and Purpose, the Hospice has developed the following
Values that we uphold in all that we do.

**Compassionate**: To care for and support patients, families, colleagues and the wider
community with compassion and understanding

**Accountable**: To be accountable for our own actions and decisions, and to hold each other to
account

**Respectful**: To treat others with respect throughout all interactions, acknowledging and
considering differing opinions.

**Equitable**: To act in an equitable manner for all, ensuring that individual needs are
considered and supported

**Sustainable**: To manage our resources efficiently, optimising use and value, whilst
minimising waste

**Safeguarding**
Wirral Hospice St John’s has a responsibility to ensure that all children/young people and adults are
adequately safeguarded and protected and that “Safeguarding is Everyone’s Business”. As a
consequence, all staff are required to adhere to national and local safeguarding policies/procedures and
to act upon any concerns in accordance with them.

**Equality and Diversity**
Wirral Hospice St John’s has given its full commitment to the adoption and promotion of the key principles
of equality and diversity of equal opportunities contained within current legislation and the Wirral Hospice
St John’s Equality Policy.

**Health and Safety**
It is the duty of every employee to work in such a way that accidents to themselves and to others are
avoided, and to co-operate in maintaining their place of work in a tidy and safe condition, thereby
minimising risk. Employees will, therefore refer any matters of concern through their line manager.
Similarly, it is each person’s responsibility to ensure a secure environment and bring any breaches of
security to the attention of their manager.

**Confidentiality**
In the course of your duties, you will have access to confidential material about patients, members of staff
or other hospice business. On no account must information relating to identifiable patients be divulged to
anyone other than those authorised persons, for example, medical, nursing or other professional staff, as
appropriate, who are concerned directly with the care, diagnosis and or/treatment of the patient. If you are
in any doubt whatsoever as to the authority of a person or body asking for information of this nature, you
must seek advice from your manager. Similarly, no information of a personal or confidential nature
concerning individual members of staff should be divulged to anyone without the proper authority having
first been given.

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