Senior Clinical Coder - Health Information Services

Queensland Health; Mackay Regional; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

Salary packaging

Leave entitlements

Flexible working arrangements

Education opportunities

Study and Research

Job summary

Mackay Hospital and Health Service is seeking a Senior Clinical Coder to join the Health Information Services team at Mackay Base Hospital on a temporary basis. The role focuses on accurate and timely clinical coding to ensure correct funding and reporting for MHHS across the Mackay, Isaac, and Whitsunday regions.

The Clinical Coding Service is part of Health Information Services, responsible for abstracting inpatient data from discharge summaries, progress notes, and related reports to support

Responsibilities

• Ensure clinical coding is completed accurately and in a timely manner to support funding and reporting.

Job description

Senior Clinical Coder - Health Information Services

Mackay Hospital and Health Service is dedicated to delivering quality health care across the Mackay, Isaac, and Whitsunday regions.

Join our growing Health Service and be part of a culture built on collaboration, trust, respect, and teamwork.

Whether you’re working in regional, rural or remote settings, we offer unique opportunities and experiences you won’t find in a metropolitan hospital.

The Health Information Services at the Mackay Base Hospital is seeking applications for a Senior Clinical Coder to join their team on a temporary basis.

Your opportunity

As a senior clinical coder, this is an opportunity to work in a team environment to ensure that clinical coding is completed accurately and in a timely manner, to ensure MHHS achieves the correct funding and meets all reporting requirements.

About the Team

The Clinical Coding Service is within the Health Information Service organisational structure. Clinical Coding is a method of abstracting clinical data based on the diagnoses and interventions of each inpatient episode of care. This data is abstracted for the whole clinical record episode of care including Discharge Summary, Progress Notes, Operation Reports, Reference to investigation results including pathology, pharmacy and radiology. Clinical Coding is an essential part of the process in the collection and extraction of patient information for financial, statistical and clinical management purposes.

About our Hospital and Health Service

Mackay Hospital and Health Service has 6 hospitals, 2 multi-purpose health services and 4 community health centres that employ more than 3,500 staff. The district covers an area of approximately 90,000km2 and provides services to patients and their families in Bowen, Cannonvale, Clermont, Collinsville, Dysart, Glenden, Mackay, Middlemount, Moranbah, Proserpine and Sarina.

Some of our great benefits on offer

• Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
• Flexible working arrangements
• Education opportunities, Study and Research

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