Clinical Coder Auditor - location negotiable within NNSWLHD

Northern NSW Local Health District; New South Wales; On-site; AUD 91,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Fitness discounts

Professional growth

Team culture

Career opportunities

Job summary

Northern NSW Local Health District is seeking a Clinical Coder Auditor to ensure timely and accurate clinical coding while leading processes to improve coding accuracy. The role includes mentoring, audits, education, query resolution, and data analysis to support activity-based funding education.

The position offers flexible work arrangements with the location negotiable across NSW Health sites. Relocation support and professional development opportunities are available.

Qualifications

• Must have timely and accurate clinical coding.
• Requires mentoring, audits, education and query processes.
• Involves error correction and continuous clinical documentation improvement.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely and accurate clinical coding.
• Lead processes to improve coding accuracy.
• Provide education and audits to support coding quality.

Skills

Clinical coding

Auditing

Mentoring

Data analysis

Job description

Live and work in a place of great beauty, rich and diverse in culture and creativity. Enjoy a lifestyle that allows time and space to learn and grow. Employment Type: Permanent Full-Time / Part-Time Position Classification: Health Mgr Lvl 1 Remuneration: $91,326 - $121,497 per annum pro rata Hours Per Week: up to 38 hours

About the role Northern NSW Local Heath District (NNSWLHD) is seeking a Clinical Coder Auditor to ensure timely and accurate clinical coding whilst leading processes to improve the accuracy of coding through mentoring, audits, education, query processes, error correction, continuous clinical documentation improvement, coded data analysis and activity based funding education. NSW Health supports flexible work arrangements; the location of this role may be successfully negotiated within the Northern New South Wales Local Health District sites.

About Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD) We are a healthcare community, caring for the people of the Northern Rivers. We understand that high quality healthcare and quality of life go hand in hand. Our hospitals, and our community health and multipurpose services are a well-balanced modern network truly connecting the communities we serve across the Tweed, Richmond, and Clarence Valleys. If you care about high quality healthcare and quality of life, we encourage you to join us. You care. We care. Learn more about NNSWLHD here.

Relocating to the region? The Welcome Experience in the Northern Rivers connects you and your family with local people and local resources to help you settle in and feel at home in your new community faster. Learn more at: www.nsw.gov.au/welcomeexperience

Join our team and you’ll enjoy:

• Salary packaging and novated leasing - increase your take-home pay
• Fitness discounts - focus on your health and wellbeing
• Growth - access to professional and personal development
• Team culture - work in a collaborative, flexible and supportive team environment
• Opportunities to start or build a career, or re-enter the workforce

Applications Close: 11 November 2026

NNSWLHD embraces the diverse skills and perspectives that our people bring to the workplace. We foster inclusiveness and diversity to help us deliver quality care to our community.

NNSWLHD is committed to reconciliation and strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this position. All applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be viewed most favorably. For help with your application to this role visit Stepping Up, our online recruitment resource for Aboriginal people.

To apply for this position, you must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident, or be able to independently, legally live and work in Australia. For more information, please see www.homeaffairs.gov.au

You may be subject to a probationary period of six months from the date of appointment to this position. This recruitment may be used to create an Eligibility List for similar roles in the future.