Apprentice Accounts Assistant

Government jobs, apprenticeship; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 15,000

Job description

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 25 November

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:

1. Assisting the Hospital's Financial Accountant with the daily bank reconciliation
2. Producing regular reports of Excel data (activity, finance, etc.)
3. Reconciling the Hospital's credit card on a monthly basis
4. Supporting the Hospital's Business Manager with the monthly consultants payment
5. Being professional, polite, and accurate in all communication from Business Office including but not limited to letters, emails, and telephone calls
6. Posting daily journals
7. Liaising with and forming working relationships with staff, both clinical and clerical, within the organisation and with other members of Business Office
8. Producing consistent, accurate, timely, permanent, economical, and effective minutes of any meetings requested
9. Filing and logging minutes in a structured fashion to allow audit trail and ease of searching and retrieval
10. Scanning all relevant documents onto the Hospital's shared drive
11. Documenting 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:

1. Record transactional data.
2. Use the organisation's standard tools and processes to examine data to identify transactional issues such as reconciliations and inconsistencies between invoices.
3. Recognise and rectify routine errors, escalating as necessary.
4. Plan and review accounting and finance tasks.
5. 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.
6. Use finance and accounting software packages to accurately input and manage data to contribute to routine accounting tasks.
7. 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

1. You will be working towards an AAT Foundation Certificate in Accounting (level 2)
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:

1. English (grade 4/C)
2. 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

1. Communication skills
2. IT skills
3. Attention to detail
4. Team working
5. Initiative
6. Good interpersonal skills
7. Willingness to learn
8. 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
[e-mail]

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000284841.

Apply now
Closes in 18 days (Monday 18 November at 11:59pm)

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