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Job summary

Main area
Private Care
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
282-P763
Employer
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Royal Marsden Wallington
Town
Wallington
Salary
£44,485 - £52,521 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/09/2025 23:59

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The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant Billing Manager

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

An excellent opportunity has arisen to work at the Royal Marsden Hospital to work within the Private Care Consultant Billing Team. The successful candidate should ideally have  previous experience working with consultants within a private care environment.

They should have a flexible approach to their duties and the ability to work both as part of the team as well as independently. In addition, you will have excellent communication, administrative and IT skills and be supportive and open to new initiatives.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

Main duties of the job

As the Consultant Billing Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing a variety of tasks, including managing the Consultant Billing Team. This team handles a portfolio of consultants, from account setup and maintenance to investigating billing accuracy, managing queries, and addressing debt escalations within the Billing and Credit Control department.

The role is challenging and requires strong communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to handle issues tactfully and diplomatically while maintaining a firm approach when necessary. You will work autonomously and proactively to drive the performance of the Consultant Billing Team, ensuring that billing and debt targets are met. This includes engaging with and supporting consultants who use the service.

You will also build and maintain relationships across the Private Care Directorate, collaborating with teams to improve the Consultant Billing offering and ensure all KPIs are met.

Working closely with Credit Control, Billing Managers, and Team Leaders, you will identify query trends and implement corrective actions to prevent delays in consultant payment processing.

 

Working for our organisation

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information please refer to the job description and personal specification 

To lead regular cross-department meetings to ensure that key risks or trends are identified and a remedial plan put in place to ensure service levels are maintained. They will also look to lead the strategic development to produce a means of improved communication across the service.

To create and review the Consultant Dashboard and other monthly and annual reports to ensure accurate reporting is provided on consultant payment, invoice and debt activity. They will also maintain the consultant billing standard operating procedures and training guides ensuring they are adhered to. Further undertaking regular reviews of queries from billing errors and highlight any areas of training development.

Lead, plan, and implement service improvements to the billing process for consultants, enhancing their service fees and overall customer experience.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • GCSE’s in Mathematics and English Language
  • A level equivalent qualification
  • Post-graduate degree in Business administration, finance, accounting or related field or equivalent significant experience
Desirable criteria
  • Part-qualified or fully qualified CCAB, CIMA, CIPA or ACCA. NHS -specific finance training or certifications

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Financial and Account management experience
  • Sector-specific Experience. Public sector, NHS or Private Patient.
  • Demonstrate ability to communicate financial information clearly to nonfinancial managers and experience working with clinical and operational managers to support financial decision-making
  • Strong skills in Excel and finance systems
  • Management experience of staff
  • Specialist Knowledge and experience, the understanding of how to raise an invoice for clinical treatment for all types of sponsors
  • Specialist Knowledge and experience in data interpretation and problem-solving with complex datasets to identify and reduce financial risks and propose workable solutions
Desirable criteria
  • Understanding of the Private Patients Financial framework within the NHS Trust
  • Experience of working with consultants regarding their clinical activity for billing purposes
  • Experience of working with Compucare, EPIC, SBS, Healthcode
  • Experience in contributing to or managing financial aspects of projects, service transformation or cost improvement programs.
  • Specialist Knowledge of the NHS payment and payroll systems

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work autonomously to meet pre-set objectives
  • Ability to work under time pressure
  • Demonstrate motivation, negotiation and persuasion skills
  • High level of analytical skills
  • Ability to effectively manage conflicting priorities
  • Problem solving
  • Good communication and Interpersonal skills with the ability to adapt approach to different levels.
  • Highly numerate
  • Strong writing skills with ability to adapt style as appropriate to circumstances
  • Keyboard skills and computer literacy (including knowledge of MS office packages)
  • Experience in dealing with demanding customers

Other Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Self-motivating and demonstrating initiative

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Janis Oddy
Job title
Billing Manager
Email address
[email protected]

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Recruitment Support Team
Telephone
01629 690825
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