Senior Clinical Coder - Health Information Services

Queensland Government; Mackay Regional; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

Salary packaging

Flexible working arrangements

Diverse work culture

Career development opportunities

Education opportunities

Paid parental leave

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Discounted Private Health Insurance

Fitness Passport

Job summary

The Health Information Services at Mackay Base Hospital is seeking applications for a Senior Clinical Coder to join their team on a temporary basis. The role focuses on accurate and timely clinical coding to support funding and reporting requirements.

You will contribute to the Clinical Coding Service within Health Information Services, ensuring abstraction of diagnoses and interventions across inpatient records, with the aim of high-quality data for financial and clinical management.

Job description

Role detailsThe Health Information Services at the Mackay Base Hospital is seeking applications for a Senior Clinical Coder to join their team on a temporary basis.For information on how to apply and the mandatory requirements for this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.Your opportunityAs 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 TeamThe 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 ServiceMackay 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 offerCompetitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlementsFlexible working arrangementsA diverse work cultureCareer developmentProfessional development opportunitiesEducation opportunities, Study and ResearchPaid parental leaveEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)Discounted Private Health InsuranceFitness PassportThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.