Payments Officer

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Financial Services department of a large acute Trust.

The post holder will be part of a small team providing an efficient customer focused payments service to the Trust. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to undertake various duties including data input, (scanning and registration) and dealing with queries from suppliers.

The successful applicants will ideally have experience of purchase ledger in an NHS environment (or similar) and is or would like to be working towards an accounting qualification. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential together with the ability to deal with people at all levels., You will need to be able to work effectively on your own and as part of a team, and must be able to prioritise a busy workload to adhere to the challenging Department of Health deadlines. You will need to be organised and methodical, be proactive to improve processes and support the development of the team as well as being committed to your own personal development., Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.

We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.

In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.

This is for a full time position based at Unit F, Hermitage Lane. This role will require being in the office 3 days a week and working from home 2 days.