Financial Services Officer

Join NHS Highland’s Finance Team Supporting Patients and Services

NHS Highland is looking for a Financial Services Officer to join our Finance Team, with a key focus on Accounts Payable and Cashier Services. This role is crucial in ensuring the smooth processing of financial transactions, assisting patients and handling payments securely. If you have strong organisational skills, financial experience, and enjoy helping people, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

This role is ideal for someone looking for part-time work evenly split out across the week.

About The Role

As a Financial Services Officer, you will work within NHS Highland’s Financial Services team, covering a range of financial transactions, with a focus on Accounts Payable and Cashier Services. Working between Assynt House and Raigmore Hospital you will:

• Maintain financial records and process invoices, ensuring transactions are coded correctly and in line with NHS financial procedures.
• Liaise with suppliers, patients, and NHS staff to resolve financial queries efficiently and professionally.
• Ensure security and compliance, particularly when handling cash, banking, and processing financial transactions.
• Support patient travel services, checking, processing, and authorising travel claims while ensuring patients meet eligibility requirements.
• Arrange patient transport, including flights, trains, and accommodation, often at short notice, liaising with hospitals, medical staff, and travel providers.
• Work within the hospital cash office, handling financial transactions such as reconciling cash, processing payments, and managing patient funds.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

We are seeking a detail-oriented and customer-focused individual who can work effectively within a financial environment while providing essential support to patients. You should have:

• Experience in financial administration ideally in accounts payable, accounts receivable, cashiering, or patient travel services.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills the ability to support patients and families in sometimes stressful situations, providing clear and empathetic guidance.
• Strong numerical and problem-solving skills ensuring accuracy in financial transactions and the ability to resolve discrepancies.
• Confidence handling cash and financial transactions including banking, reconciliations, and secure storage of funds.
• Good organisational skills and attention to detail working with high volumes of transactions, meeting deadlines, and ensuring compliance with NHS financial procedures.
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team particularly in the cash office, where you may be responsible for managing transactions without direct supervision.
• IT skills and experience using financial systems knowledge of finance software, Excel, and database management would be beneficial.
  
  

Benefits We Offer You

• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression (up to the maximum of the salary band) plus annual NHS salary scale review
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• NHS discounts and much more
  
  

Next steps

Our recruitment process for this post is online, except for the interview stage, which will be in-person in Inverness.

For more information contact Kenny Clarkson; tel: 01463 704716; email: .

This role does not meet the eligibility criteria for a or a NHS Highland is unable to provide candidates with a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS).

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

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NHS Highland is geographically the largest of the 14 regional boards of NHS Scotland, covering an area of 12,500 square miles, across Highland and Argyll & Bute.

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