Derby City Council UK Jobs – Finance Officer

Directorate: People Services

Hours: 37

Contract type: Temporary for 12 months

Location: Council House, Derby and Home working

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Community Care Charging & Support Team to undertake both financial and administrative tasks within a busy team. The role involves supporting the Social Care Teams to deliver social care to both younger and older adults.

As a Finance Officer, you will be responsible for monitoring how customers spend their direct payments in line with their Support Plan. You will also be responsible for processing a large volume of invoices in relation to care delivered to customers and facilitating the financial charging assessment. The role will involve an element of customer service as the team liaise with both internal and external customers daily.

The candidate will be joining the team at a time when the service is undergoing many changes to improve the customer experience and satisfaction. The post holder will be involved in those changes by supporting business as usual processes but also by being a part of the new ways of working. This is an exciting time to join the Community Care Charging & Support Team as the post holder will gain invaluable financial, administrative and customer service experience.

For more information, please contact Jo Moody:

[email protected]

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job. For reasons connected with a particular need of the Council it may be appropriate, subject to approval, to appoint to a higher point in the pay grade.

Please be aware that where there are staff within the organisation who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.

The closing date for this vacancy is Monday 17th October 2023

Any application forms received after the closing date will not be accepted

Interviews will take place on Thursday 27th October 2023

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