Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-3044-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern General Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/11/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 10/11/2026
Employer heading
Head of Accounts Receivable
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
To manage the whole Accounts Receivable and Cashiering function of the Trust and work as a senior member of the Finance Team.
To ensure that policies and procedures are in place for the effective, timely and accurate billing of Trust income.
To promote and maximise the use of Automated Cash Receipting ensuring that (for relevant services) where monies are due to the Trust they are collected before the goods or service are provided.
To set monthly targets on debt cash collection levels and aged debt levels and ensure that the Accounts Receivable team achieves these targets.
To be responsible for the effective management of credit risk and ensure policies and procedures are in place to minimise loss of income from bad or doubtful debts.
To provide technical expertise and advice in relation to Overseas Visitors, Private Patients and Category II Fee income.
To provide Accounts Receivable and Cashiering support and advice to Clinical and Corporate Directorates as necessary.
Main duties of the job
To provide a centralised credit control, billing, and debt collection function for the Trust.
To provide centralised resources to Clinical Departments for the capture and assessment of all potential income relating to Overseas Visitors, Private Patients and Category II Fees.
To ensure the effective production of accurate and timely Sales invoices, with appropriate credit terms, relating to all the services provided by the Trust.
To ensure the prompt collection of all outstanding monies on the Sales Ledger, minimise the Trust’s exposure to bad debts, and lead Trust’s debt recovery processes.
To provide an onsite cashiering facility for patients and staff, focused upon the highest standards of customer care, professionalism and objectivity.
To ensure sound financial stewardship and probity over the assets and liabilities of the Trust by ensuring adherence to the relevant minimum standards as specified in the Annual Governance Statement and relevant internal and external audit standards.
To provide financial management information on the Trusts outstanding debt.
To provide credit advice on new, or existing, areas of Trust income.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its employees. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB qualified or Post Graduate Credit Management Qualification
- Degree (or equivalent demonstrable experience)
- Staff management/HR qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience, eg: recruitment and selection training/ appraisal training/ performance management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive management experience in an Accounts Receivable and Cashiering function
- Extensive staff management experience
- Demonstrable track record of leading finance system development and functionality implementation
- Demonstrable experience of governance arrangements in relation to Accounts Receivable and Cashiering functions
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of progressing debt recovery through due legal process
- Knowledge of finance and accounting practices, procedures and policies particularly pertinent to the NHS including legislation
- Experience of manipulating/ interrogating ledger and information systems
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of NHS Financial regime, in particular the Overseas Visitor guidance and Private Patient framework.
- Knowledge and understanding of VAT regime as applicable to NHS services
- Knowledge and understanding of DHSC Hospital Travel Scheme
- Experience of Integra ledger system
- Additional experience of working in a relevant financial environment
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrably good IT skills including Advanced Excel skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and verbal reasoning.
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
- High degree of numeracy.
- Understanding and interpretation skills necessary to perform technical expert adviser role
- Ability to meet deadlines through effective organisational and planning skills.
- Ability to motivate and develop teams to achieve performance targets
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Self motivation.
- Positive Team Player
- Ability to work under own initiative.
- Methodical approach to work.
- Meticulous.
- Conscientious.
- Ability to question and learn quickly
- Flexible and adaptable - able to manage competing and changing workloads.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Preeya Wordsworth
- Job title
- Head of Financial Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 226 9232
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