Administrative Assistant, Medicines Finance

At King's College Hospital, our Pharmacy Service is highly respected and our staff work closely with multi-disciplinary teams. We are patient-centred and progressive. Provision of support and training to progress personal and professional development is of utmost importance to us. If you would like to be part of a successful, passionate, high-profile service, where the most important aspect is to ensure best quality patient care, we may have a job for you., As our Administrative Assistant, Medicines Finance, you will:

• Act as the first point of contact for the Medicines Finance Team, handling telephone calls and enquiries from patients, GPs, clinicians and staff with professionalism and discretion
• Manage the Homecare database, ensuring patient demographic details are accurate and kept up to date
• Carry out invoice matching using Epic, identifying discrepancies between contracted drug prices and invoiced amounts, and liaising with Homecare providers and the finance team to resolve queries and secure credit notes where needed
• Maintain the full administrative journey for patients on the Homecare service, including registration, prescription processing, suspension, reinstatement and discontinuation
• Organise and maintain filing systems and records for Homecare services, ensuring accurate data input and retrieval
• Support non-clinical aspects of audit work and help develop improved administrative procedures
• Liaise with the wider multidisciplinary team, including clinical nurse specialists, consultants and pharmacy colleagues
• Maintain strict confidentiality when handling sensitive patient and staff information
  
  We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Administrative Assistant to join the Medicines Finance Team. With over 12000 patients accessing homecare services at King's College Hospital, this is an opportunity to join a progressive and expanding team. Working with our clinicians and the Pharmacy Homecare Team, you will be responsible for ensuring a smooth transition of care between hospital and homecare medicines services., The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.
Our six strategic ambitions are deliveringhigh-quality patient care; creating a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability. We have also agreed four new organisational values - Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative - and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care. 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.