Pharmacy Assistant Invoicing Officer

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, experienced and enthusiastic pharmacy assistant to work within the LNWH Pharmacy Homecare team. The role focuses on processing Homecare medicine invoices, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timely payments. The key responsibilities include processing and validating homecare invoicing, ensuring they align with purchase orders and contractual agreement; as well as assisting on reconciling supplier statements and preparing reports on invoicing activities. The post holder will also be expected to support the Homecare team with administrative tasks as required.

Main duties of the job

• Maintain regular working relationships with all pharmacy Homecare, purchasing and distribution staff.
• Routinely processes complex invoicing information from Homecare providers and updates the pharmacy CMM system appropriately
• Provides Principal Pharmacy Technician - Homecare with invoicing details as and when required
• Provides Principal Pharmacy Technician - Homecare with end of month finance data e.g. CREC – unallocated invoices reports.
• Communicates regularly with Homecare providers on invoice queries and pricing disputes.
• Ensures that medicines supplied to patients via the Homecare providers are supplied at the correct contract price using the CMM pharmacy system and the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency’s electronic catalogue as references.
• Update and maintain internal data logs regarding daily invoice workload.
• Identifies any invoicing errors and arranges for a credit note to be issued by the Homecare providers.
• Preparation and collation of financial management, summary data including reconciliation and balances.
• Communicates regularly with the Finance Department on pharmacy invoicing issues.
• Deals with frequent and varied queries both in person and by telephone.
• Communicates with Pharmacy procurement team on stock pricing issues.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.