Data Integrity Officer in Oxford

All-Age Complex and Continuing Care are a team of clinical, business, commissioning specialists who provide continuing healthcare (CHC) children and young people's continuing care (CYPCC) and complex care commissioning to individuals across the Thames Valley footprint. Our operating model has three main areas of activity:

• Neighbourhood teams work alongside health and social care partners within the community assessing, reviewing and case managing care for adults and children within Oxford, Buckinghamshire or Berkshire, working directly with individuals and families.
• Central services teams act as the front door and end to end service delivery, managing referrals into the service, business, administration and invoicing functions.
• Commissioning Contracting and Brokerage team work closely with care providers and social care to commission individualised care for individuals.

Main duties of the job:

• The Business Integrity Officer supports with providing a full administration and financial service, whilst also being a key point of contact for resolving escalated financial queries and ultimately enabling a positive experience for all services who contact the Payments Team.

Job responsibilities:

• Manage and prioritise workload and that of the payments team effectively.
• Provide a full administration and financial service, whilst also being a key point of contact for resolving escalated financial queries.
• Provide effective day-to-day staff management of their team including selection and induction of own staff, supervision, and appraisals.
• Allocate work to the team as required to ensure deadlines and key performance indicators will be met.
• Work and develop relationships with a range of Care Providers and/or Direct Payment holders to ensure accurate reconciliation of payments in accordance with the NHS Standing Financial Instructions.
• Lead on the preparation and validation of payment queries through the payment adjustment and payment schedule process.
• Oversee the reconciliation of the monthly payment schedules for FNC, CHC and Direct Payments to ensure all accurate payments are made to the providers in a timely manner.
• Ensure the correct authorisation procedures are followed for the monthly payment schedule.
• Liaise with Providers/Direct Payment holders to deal with all payment queries relating to the payment schedule.
• Be vigilant and highly aware of risks pertaining to payment errors or fraud in relation to payment to care providers or direct payment holders.
• Work in a fast-moving service user focused environment and have the ability to remain calm under pressure, whilst managing a multi-faceted workload.
• Deal independently with queries from members of the public, patients and their representatives, Adult Social Care, nursing homes and other outside agencies in relation to non-clinical issues regarding Continuing Healthcare and the NHS Funded Care Contributions.
• Receive sensitive information via patient notes and reports from GPs, hospitals, care homes, Social Services, district nurses and other health professionals along with submissions from individuals and their representatives.
• Regularly resolve escalated, advanced queries regarding provider invoices and financial queries.
• Supply and highlight issues associated with financial information required to support the Head of department and ICB teams.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Knowledge, Experience: Knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis. Basic knowledge of project principles. Intermediate knowledge of IT systems and Microsoft applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel. Previous experience in a similar position.
• Skills, Capabilities, Attributes: Skills for communication on complex data, information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills. Ability to work under pressure in a busy working environment, working to tight and often changing timescales. Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands. Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters. Skills for supporting project management, managing aspects of projects ensuring they meet financial targets. Able to work without supervision and on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others' workloads to meet deadlines. Demonstrates commitment to continuous personal learning and development.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.