Apprentice Accounts Assistant

Summary

Fairfield Hospital is looking to help a new apprentice develop a career in accounting, This is a great opportunity for keen minds to learn with a young team of enthusiastic colleagues who can help a new apprentice by guiding them into this new role and offering rich and in depth learning.

Annual wage: £12,480 a year
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Training course: Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm.
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 2 December
Duration: 1 year
Positions available: 3

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Daily tasks include but are not limited to:

Assisting the Hospital’s Financial Accountant with the daily bank reconciliation
Produce regular reports of Excel data (activity, finance, etc.)
Reconciling the Hospital’s credit card on a monthly basis
Supporting the Hospital’s Business Manager with the monthly consultants payment
To be professional, polite and accurate in all communication from Business Office including but not limited to letters, emails and telephone calls.
Posting daily journals
Liaise with and form working relationships with staff, both clinical and clerical, within the organisation and with other members of Business Office
Produce consistent, accurate, timely, permanent, economical and effective minutes of any meetings requested
File and log minutes in a structured fashion to allow audit trail and ease of searching and retrieval
Scanning of all relevant documents on to the Hospital’s shared drive
Document new or revised policies and procedures within own work area

The applicant may also carry out any other reasonable duties commensurate with the role and delegated or requested by the manager, as the needs of the service require.

Where you’ll work

Fairfield Hospital Crank

St.Helens

Merseyside

WA11 7RS

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

ST HELENS COLLEGE

Your training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents

Record transactional data.
Use the organisation’s standard tools and processes to examine data to identify transactional issues such as, reconciliations and inconsistencies between invoices.
Recognise and rectify routine errors, escalating as necessary.
Plan and review accounting and finance tasks.
Communicate with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely results, avoiding jargon, using language tailored to the audience and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
Use finance and accounting software packages to accurately input and manage data to contribute to routine accounting tasks.
Handle data and digital technology in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
Record transactional data.
Use the organisation’s standard tools and processes to examine data to identify transactional issues such as, reconciliations and inconsistencies between invoices.
Recognise and rectify routine errors, escalating as necessary.
Plan and review accounting and finance tasks.
Communicate with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely results, avoiding jargon, using language tailored to the audience and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
Use finance and accounting software packages to accurately input and manage data to contribute to routine accounting tasks.
Handle data and digital technology in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.

Your training plan

You will be working towards an AAT Foundation Certificate in Accounting (level 2)
Training will be at St Helens College Town Centre Campus, one day a week (term time only)

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade 4/C)
Maths (grade 4/C)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Team working
Initiative
Good interpersonal skills
Willingness to learn
Motivated

Other requirements

Please check any travel to work details are sustainable before applying as the hospital is in a rural location.

About this company

Fairfield Independent Hospital provides both NHS and private out-patient and in-patient treatment for a range of surgical specialities. The hospital is in a beautiful location set out in the countryside.

http://www.fairfield.org.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

On successful completion of the apprenticeship, Fairfield Hospital will review suitable placements within the organisation for the apprentice.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ST HELENS COLLEGE

Connie

appenquiry@sthelens.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000284841.

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Closes in 8 days (Friday 29 November at 11:59pm)

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