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Payments /Payment Verification Co-ordinator
This post is a permanent position
About the Organisation:
National Services Scotland (NSS) is a national NHS Board operating right at the heart of NHSScotland providing invaluable support and advice at a strategic and operational level. NSS supports customers to deliver their services more efficiently and effectively and we offer shared services on a national scale using best-in-class systems and standards. Our priority is always the same – to improve the health and well-being of the people of Scotland. We do this by working in partnership with colleagues across Health and Social Care to deliver fit for purpose solutions and systems, delivering high quality services that help our stakeholders to free up resources so they can be re-invested into essential services.
The Candidate:
The Practitioner and Counter Fraud Services unit of NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) is looking for a Payments /Payment Verification Co-ordinator to join its Contractor Finance Team.
The post holder will play a key role in management of payment and payment verification services within contractor finance. The role will be responsible for analysis and calculating payments on the newly announced Community Glaucoma Service scheme, and the role will be required to check, validate, and authorise accurate payments to all eligible contractors on behalf of the NHS Health Boards. The post holder will manage the payment/payment verification officer in delivering the community glaucoma monthly payments and payment verification services, whilst ensuring all audit control requirements are being met and build effective working relationships and working collaboratively with multi-professional teams. The post holder will provide support to the payment team with regards complex financial queries, will verify the validity of claims against the scheme criteria alongside providing detailed analysis and reporting to the Scottish Government and National Finance Manager. The post holder will manage the Payments/PV Officer workload and deliver payment within the monthly payment run and will report directly to the Payments/PV Lead and identify any issues. It is crucial that they will be able to make difficult decisions and liaise with senior stakeholder and deal with sensitive issues in a confidential manner and be a team player with the ability to work independently. The post holder will be self-motivated, numerate, and willing to take the initiative to design new solutions to complex problems and working processes and bringing new ideas on how we can perform better and do things differently and learn from best practice.
They will be educated to degree level with significant experience of Microsoft Office applications specifically excel. They will also be skilled in financial modeling and analysis. Please see the person specification for more details on the required skills.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo a Scheme/Disclosure Scotland check. Any candidate who have lived/worked overseas for more than 12 months in the preceding 5 years will also be required to provide a criminal record check from the appropriate overseas agency.
Location and Working Pattern:
Gyle Square, Edinburgh
Monday to Friday/Sunday, 37.5 hours per week
It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with NSS.
Benefits:
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits
Further information:
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Lorraine Bagen via email at Lorraine.bagen@nhs.scot
Closing date for completed applications is 9th June 2023
Further information on NSS is available from: www.nhsnss.org
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).
NHS National Services Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies