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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

About
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Contact
- Address
- Trust Headquarters
- Warneford Hospital
- Warneford Lane
- Headington
- Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX3 7JX
- Contact Number
- 01865 901000
Accounts Receivable Supervisor
Closed for applications on: 6-Mar-2025 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 6-Mar-2025 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Littlemore Mental Health Centre
- Address
- Sandford Road
- Town
- Littlemore
- Postcode
- OX4 4XN
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
Salary
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum | pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Accounts Receivable
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Looking for a challenging and rewarding role where you can make a real impact?
We are recruiting for an Accounts Receivable Supervisor to join our Financial Services team at our HQ in Littlemore, Oxford where you'll oversee the team's daily operations.
You'll be responsible for ensuring invoices and credit notes are raised, processed, and sent out correctly and on time. You’ll manage overdue debts with a proactive approach, ensuring they’re chased within agreed credit terms and appropriate actions are taken to recover income. With a focus on maximising efficiency and income, you’ll develop, monitor, and improve policies and procedures, while also implementing new systems to optimise the Accounts Receivable function.
You’ll also manage recruitment, induction, and ongoing training for the team, and assist with regular performance appraisals to ensure everyone reaches their potential. You’ll also step in to personally handle complex or difficult customer accounts, working to find effective solutions.
We operate a hybrid working model with a blend of office and home working (minimum of 1-2 days per week on-site).
This is an interesting and varied role in a friendly environment where you can make a real difference to the Trust's financial operations. If this sounds like your area of expertise, we'd love to hear from you!
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- Responsible for the daily supervision of the Accounts Receivable staff and department, ensuring timely and accurate completion of the daily and monthly workload.
- Ensure that the Accounts Receivable staff adhere to statutory regulations, directives and all relevant internal procedures.
- Responsible for the collection of debt owed to Oxford Health Foundation Trust ensuring that all debt owed to the Trust is received according to terms.
- Ensure that the Debtors team members are organised, motivated, managed, supported and developed
- Ensure customer accounts are reconciled on a regular basis and to action refunds where overpayments have been made.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Suitable Computer Skills
Desirable criteria
- AAT Member or ICM or equivalent knowledge and experience
- Supervisory or Management Qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Credit control procedures
- Understanding of requirements for Information Governance and legislation surrounding confidentiality (e.g. GDPR)
- Involvement in enhancements to process and systems
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of undertaking continuous professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Finance experience
- Team player
Desirable criteria
- NHS accounting experience
- Experience of managing and developing a team
Documents
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Deborah Wicks
- Job title
- Financial Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 902118
- Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, we would be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application. Please do get in touch during the following times:
Monday & Tuesday 8am - 3pm
Wednesday 8am - 12pm
Thursday & Friday 8am - 3pm
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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