Accounts Assistant (Healthcare)

Cairn Group

  • Newcastle
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 15 days ago
Working with us provides great benefits, including:
  • Access your pay as you earn it through our financial wellbeing platform 'Wagestream,' a tool that lets you track your earnings in real-time, access a percentage of your pay as you earn it, learn easy tips for managing your money and save straight from your pay into pots for the future.
  • Discounted Hotel Stays across our UK sites, and if you work for a branded venue, around the World!
  • 50% off Food & Beverage at all our Hotels & F&B Venues
  • Spa Discounts at our venues with a Spa
  • Retail, Cinema & Leisure Discounts
  • Development Opportunities via our 'Grow with us' initiative, including Apprenticeship opportunities, our Development Programmes, and more!
  • Monthly 'Star of the Month' Awards
  • Long-service Awards, that start after 1 year of service
  • 'Recommend a Friend' Incentive - Be rewarded for referring someone you know!
  • Access to a confidential 'Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)' available 24/7, 365 days per year.
  • Pension Scheme
  • Other incentive programmes that run throughout the year
About the role…As a Care Home Accounts Assistant you will be working in the Head Office looking after the accounts for 9 Care Homes spread across the country.Main responsibilities:
  • Invoicing residents, councils and CCG's
  • Posting transactions onto Sage 200
  • Bank reconciliations
  • Reconciling client accounts
  • Weekly room occupancy reports to the Directors and Managers
  • Monitoring and reporting on the aged debt on a regular basis
  • Chasing debt
  • Communicating with the various social workers/councils/relatives/CCG's and homes
  • Taking card payments over the telephone
  • Duties as required on an ad hoc basis for the company
About you…
  • While it would be fantastic if you had knowledge of care home finances, it is not essential. The more important aspects for us are:
  • Willingness to learn
  • Work confidently with numbers
  • Attention to detail
  • Good communication skills, particularly when dealing with relatives of residents
  • Ability to write clearly for correspondence
  • Ability to multi-task and be flexible
  • Ability to use your own initiative
  • Knowledge of Sage 200 and Coolcare is useful, but not essential
About us…At Cairn Group we're ambitious. With a varied and extensive UK portfolio of hotels, bars and restaurants in our portfolio, we're focused on continual growth and are in it for the long haul. We are a family owned business with family values at our core, with a growing team and sites UK wide.#INDLP

Cairn Group