Job summary

The postholder will join a friendly and supportive Financial Services team, working within the Trust's Cash Team to help maintain strong financial control across the organisation. You will be responsible for processing financial information in line with established procedures and providing reliable, professional accounting support to ensure the accuracy of the Trust's main exchequer accounts.

This role involves completing routine transactional tasks, supporting financial governance, and contributing to the smooth running of the Finance department. Key activities include conducting quarterly petty cash audits, preparing recharge journals, checking and coding invoices, verifying colleagues' journals, and carrying out general administrative duties to support the wider team.

At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.

Main duties of the job

Point of contact for petty cash and patient funds queries within the Trust

Training new cashiers on petty cash processes

Transferring patient funds if a site move has happened

Setting up new petty cash suppliers

Issue fuel charge cards and assisting with the internal statements process

Issuing corporate credit cards and managing availability to users

Manage processes relating to daily banking and cash collection receipting

Assisting with unreconciled bank items and dealing with transaction queries

Arranging bank transfers as required

Checking generic team emails and actioning items relating to any of the areas above

Assist with Roster system inputs for the whole of the finance team

Ensure Standing Financial Instructions and Financial Procedures are adhered to.

Assist in the process of audit and ensure compliance with audit recommendations.

Promote good practice in corporate governance.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence