Consultant Billing Manager | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust; Wallington; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious healthcare provider in Wallington is looking for a Consultant Billing Manager to oversee the Consultant Billing Team, ensuring efficient management of billing tasks and team performance. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication, administrative, and IT skills, with previous experience in a private care environment. This role offers opportunities for service improvements and collaboration with various teams. Flexibility in work arrangements is also supported.

Benefits

Staff benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Previous experience working with consultants in a private care environment is ideal.
• Ability to oversee multiple tasks and manage a team.
• Experience in driving performance and improving service offerings.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Consultant Billing Team and manage various tasks related to billing.
• Drive team performance to meet billing and debt targets.
• Maintain relationships across various teams to improve billing services.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Administrative skills

IT skills

Ability to work independently

Ability to work as part of a team

Flexible approach to duties

Job description

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.

Responsibilities

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

About The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

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.

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

Reporting and Governance

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.

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This advert closes on Thursday 13 Nov 2025