Job summary
- Main area
- Admin
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 213-CAY-7273825
- Employer
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King's College Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £31,944 - £34,937 Per annum including high cost allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Directorate Invoicing Officer
NHS AfC: Band 4
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.
Job overview
We are recruiting a Directorate Invoicing Officer for our busy International & Private Patients Unit. The successful candidate will work in a team, ensuring that all income is accounted for in an accurate and timely manner. The job requires a great deal of teamwork, problem solving and organisational skills.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be involved in all aspects of billing private patients and overseas visitors. This involves interrogating hospital systems, collating information received from a number of sources and actively ensuring that all charges are captured and included in the bills. Numeracy and attention to detail is required, as well as well as the ability to check and analyse the integrity of data received.
Working for our organisation
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To determine how the patient treatment will be invoiced and to ensure that all the required information is in place to invoice accurately.
· To understand the process and requirements for invoicing different cohorts of patients.
· To ensure that financial cover is in place and communicate queries to relevant teams.
· To communicate effectively with source departments to obtain complete and accurate data
· To analyse and adhere to the monthly BIU billing report when invoicing overseas visitors.
· To use look up and analytical skills to determine which HRG code to use for the billing of patient treatment not yet reported on.
· Ensure that audit recommendations have been fully implemented and that local internal control requirements are met.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Invoicing experience
- Excel intermediate knowledge as a minimum
Desirable criteria
- Experience in using Compucare
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lone Lehman
- Job title
- Finance & Administration Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 32992951
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