Cashier | East London NHS Foundation Trust

The role will ensure that an efficient and effective hospital cashiering service is provided for patients and staff of the Trust and will support the Senior Financial Accountant and Financial Controller in providing a comprehensive, high quality financial accounting service.

The role is primarily to provide cashiering services at one or more of the following sites

· Homerton East Wing;

· Mile End Hospital;

· East Ham Care Centre;

· Newham Centre for Mental Health;

· John Howard Centre;

· Wolfson House.

To be responsible for the accurate recording of all cash, cheques and property received from and returned to staff, patients and relatives.

To follow the Trust’s Standing Financial Instructions and Policies & Procedures in relation to all financial and patient property transactions.

To ensure sufficient funds are available in the float to reimburse both staff and patients.

To ensure that performance standards are met at all times.

To ensure that any financial accounting requests by the Senior Financial Accountant or Financial Controller are met in an effective and efficient manner.

To advise staff and management within the Trust of the correct procedures to be followed on cashiering and patient property issues.

To support the wider Financial Accounts team with duties such as managing the authorized signatory database, raising faster payments through Oracle, processing cheque requests for parking permits and processing expense claims for students and honorary staff.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve.

Our values are

We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

1. To ensure that the Trust provides an efficient and effective hospital cashiering service for both patients and staff.

2. To formulate expenditure control plans with patients, welfare officers and nursing staff to protect patient’s money/property whilst under the care of the Trust.

3. To administer patient’s property and money on a daily basis including planning and organising detailed record keeping on both manual and computerised record systems.

4. To analyse, maintain and deliver a comprehensive Petty Cash Imprest system. To accurately record all transactions and to reconcile floats on a daily basis.

5. To plan and organise weekly cash requisitions from balanced floats to enable enough cash held to operate an effective petty cash system.

6. To be responsible for checking and reimbursing Petty Cash floats to outlying centres.

7. To be financially responsible in receiving, recording and correctly posting all income (cash and cheques) received to the relevant bank accounts. This must be completed both accurately and promptly to ensure financial reporting reflects the actual financial position.

8. To be responsible for preparing all banking of cash and cheques for collection from the Trust by a security firm.

9. To ensure that money is released only on production of documentation duly signed by an authorised signatory of the Trust and the amount authorised is within approved limits.

10. To co-ordinate the completion of annual Petty Cash Audit Certificates for all floats and sub-floats.

11. To provide advice and guidance to both staff and patients with respect to cashiering & patient money/property policies, processes and procedures.

12. To support the wider Financial Accounts team with tasks such as, but not limited to, managing the authorized signatory database, raising faster payments through Oracle, processing cheque requests for parking permits and expense claims for students and honorary staff.

13. To treat all service users and staff in a kind and courteous manner.

14. To develop and maintain good working relationships with Department Heads and Service Directors in order to review how procedures, processes and policies relating to cashiering are managed.

15. To ensure compliance with Trust SFIs, standing orders and scheme of delegation.

16. To be responsible for maintaining own competency level through CPD (Continuing Professional Development) and any other in service or external finance training programmes.

17. Post holders may be asked to work from any of the Trust sites, although the role is primarily designated to one or two sites.

18. Confidential information may be accessed at times and all Trust staff must ensure that the highest level of confidentiality is maintained at all times.

This advert closes on Thursday 28 May 2026