ASC Finance Payments and Systems Officer
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | Portsmouth, PO1 2EP |
| Company: | Portsmouth City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 3275 |
Summary
ASC Finance, Payments & Systems Officer
Salary: Band: 6, £26,073 - £29,777 p.a.
37 hours per week
Portsmouth City Council
At Portsmouth City Council we're all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city but we need the best employees to do so.
With a little over 207,000 residents and 7,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority's main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to multi-million pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.
Your New Role
This job role will appeal to a dynamic and motivated individual who enjoys a busy and varied workload where no two days are the same. This post will work across three small proactive teams with a primary focus on the Care purchasing Team who arrange packages of Care when directed using the Health & Portsmouth brokerage module for Hospital discharges, ASC older people, clients with a physical disability and Continuing health care clients and the ASC Payment Team who are responsible in validating payment schedules and electronic invoices received from care providers via the ContrOCC Provider Portal. This will include liaising with Social Care staff and our care providers to investigate, explain and validate differences between the planned care and what was actually delivered and ensuring that they are finalised in a timely manner meeting our contractual obligations. This role will also require you to analyse activity and expenditure activity on a month-by-month basis.
The third team is the Direct Payments Team who are responsible for setting up and paying direct payment clients in a timely manner, undertaking audits of client accounts to ensure effective use of Council funds and to undertake recovery of client funds as and when appropriate. You will also liaise with clients, Adult Social Care practitioners and other stakeholders to resolve direct payment issues.
What you'll need to succeed
You will be curious with a high level of concentration and the ability to retain complex details and a have a good standard of education. With good interpersonal skills you will have the confidence in dealing with and liaising with customers/clients at all levels. You will be able to work autonomously, and able to plan and prioritise your work to deadlines. Confident in the use of IT, you will be able to produce accurate work, giving attention to detail, in order to maintain records and process orders and invoices with the minimum of errors. You will have the ability to form good relationships and have good verbal and written communication skills.
Please read the job profile for the full details of this role
What you'll get in return
We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
- Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
- Flexible working hours.
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
- Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
- Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.
Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/
Application process:
Please read the full job profile (click here) for further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person.
When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points in the profile with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is important, or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please read alongside the 'How to apply' information.
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
Closing time/date: 30 April 2024 @ 23.59 pm.
We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.