Monthly Archives: May 2011

Allied health jobs mirror overall recruitment trends

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Given that the NHS is Britain’s biggest employer (and given it is not the only provider of healthcare, although certainly the biggest by far), it is not surprising that the recruitment of appropriate staff is an enormous task. The simple law of averages dictates that personnel will want to move between posts and, very often, different parts of the country, making finding candidates for allied health jobs an ongoing nightmare for personnel departments in both the NHS and other organisations. Thankfully for both the poor people in personnel and the time-short job-seeker, it is now far simpler to locate anything from jobs in occupational therapy to jobs in radiography, due to two major advances of recent years.

The first of these is, of course, the internet, a tool perfectly designed for the unwillingly-uprooted spouse trawling for jobs in occupational therapy in a new part of the country or the ambitious career-climber, willing to spend hours trawling for career-enhancing jobs in radiography. It’s a far cry from the bad old days when subscribing to the local paper in a far-flung area or numerous telephone calls with several potential new employers was vital if one was to keep afoot of new openings. These days, searches can be precisely tailored and narrowed down to avoid trawling through lists of other allied health jobs in the hunt for the one which will fit a candidate’s qualifications, experience and aspirations.

The other development, which has been mimicked across countless other fields of public service personnel, is the proliferation of specialist recruitment agencies who are usually able to match candidates to openings with more speed and less effort and cost than traditional personnel departments would be able to through traditional advertising. In fact, the growth of these companies, such as About Health Professionals, an off-shoot of the well-regarded Sanctuary Personnel, is inextricably linked with the new ways in which we look for work. Their web-site offers features most of us now take for granted when job-hunting: precise search functions with several different search parameters, e-mail alerts for suitable posts and the option to upload a CV for potential employers to consider.

This also works well, of course, for the departments offering allied health jobs who are far more likely to find a suitable candidate if their jobs in radiography are being scanned by candidates across the country, their search for dieticians is nation-wide with no further effort or expense than if it wasn’t and their jobs in occupational therapy are visible to those who maybe work for a neighbouring PCT but who are keen to move on to the next step in their careers. Given these massive advantages to both job-hunter and employer, It’s hard to remember how anyone managed before!

Please visit http://www.abouthealthprofessionals.co.uk/ for further information about this topic.

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Accounts payable audit could save a fortune

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Accounts can be a complex business, which in terms of the bottom line means they can be a costly business. There aren’t many companies that don’t have some kind of mistake in their books at the end of the year. That can have various consequences, some of them major. On the one hand, it might just mean the numbers don’t quite add up, little more than a frustration to an accountant somewhere. On the other, it could spell a substantial loss of cash for your organisation, or a problem with the taxman. An accounts payable audit can help you smoothe out many of the kinks in your accounts, enabling you to locate issues such as duplicate payments and other forms of overpayment. This is all possible using specialist recovery audit software, which checks your accounts and finds sources of mistakes. The results can be surprising, particularly for larger organisations, and can represent a significant saving. In fact, the software could easily pay for itself the first time you use it.

Audit software is versatile enough to check for not only problems that happen due to negligence or accident – simple human error – but also more malicious cases, such as fraud, when a client deliberately overcharges you or keeps funds that you have paid by mistake. (In fact, the Inland Revenue uses this kind of software to check returns, using the information to identify possible cases of fraud.) That’s important, because if your client list is long or complicated, there may well be opportunities to exploit that, costing you even more money. Running the software will flag up suspicious entries, enabling you to regain funds that you never should have paid in the first place. That’s got to be a good thing in tough times, when every little extra could mean the difference between balancing the books and wondering about ‘efficiencies’ – usually meaning layoffs – or even worse.

If you’re in need of convincing, start with the (not unreasonable) principle that errors could account for 1 percent of turnover, perhaps more. What does that equal in cash terms, and is it worth pursuing – apart from any wider concerns such as tax returns and catching fraudsters? For most companies, the answer will be a clear ‘yes’ – recovery audit software is inherently worthwhile. Duplicate payments and other overpayments can be hugely and unnecessarily expensive, so an accounts payable audit is often highly illuminating.

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BACS software takes the hassle out of payday

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If you’re working for a large business then you are probably already paid by BACS. In fact, most or all of the accounts will be settled this way, since BACS payments are fast, secure and simple. The word stands for Bankers Automated Clearing System, and essentially means electronic payments. When you log in to online banking and send money to someone else, or pay a bill, this is usually done by BACS (a variation is SWIFT, which is the same except that the payment goes through on the same day rather than in three working days; it does, however, cost more). Many medium and small businesses do not use bacs software for their accounts, preferring to stick with cash and chequebooks. It may simply be that the company was started before BACS became common, and the accounts department never updated their methods. Either way, upgrading can be a smart way to streamline your finance department.

BACS has a number of advantages over the old-fashioned way of doing things. For starters, it means you don’t have to keep a lot of cash on the premises, since on payday the money automatically goes to workers’ bank accounts. If you’ve been working by cheque, this is a step in the right direction, but it is still subject to error and other problems – not to mention the trouble of making out a separate cheque for the correct amount to every employee. BACS software can be integrated with your accounts software, so the right amounts are calculated for you. This can save a vast amount of time, and avoids most errors you might make – as well as delays. Even if a cheque takes no longer to clear (which is not always the case – BACS varies and some payments seem to go through very quickly), people still have to pay them into the bank. If you’re pushed for time, a cheque can sit around for days or weeks before you get around to it.

There have been loads of news stories in recent years about the disappearance of the chequebook, as cards become more and more popular. Like cards, BACS is fast and secure – another reason to expect that the cheque will one day become a thing of the past. bacs software therefore has a number of advantages over the alternatives and is well worth considering if you don’t have it already. BACS payments have well established themselves over recent years for good reason.

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