Clinical Coding Auditor

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 47.000 - 59.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

NHS pension scheme

Staff development

Onsite parking

Onsite nurseries

Employee Assistance Programme

Zusammenfassung

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking an Accredited Clinical Coding Auditor to lead audits, monitor quality, and drive improvement within the Coding Team. You will mentor trainees, work with lead clinicians, and help shape strategic plans as the department modernises with new digital systems.

The role offers flexible working with potential home-based days and opportunities to support performance across specialties.

Qualifikationen

• Accredited Clinical Coding Auditor with leadership and coding expertise.
• Strong communication, quality improvement, and mentoring skills.
• Experience in auditing, KPI monitoring and performance management.

Aufgaben

• Lead coding audits and benchmark variances against targets.
• Support strategic development of the department and quality framework.
• Mentor trainee coders and collaborate with clinicians.
• Ensure timely, standardised specialty data to support performance.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Communication

Quality improvement

Mentorship

Auditing

Clinical coding

Team collaboration

Ausbildung

Accredited Clinical Coding Auditor

Tools

CHKS

Jobbeschreibung

This post attracts a Recruitment and Retention premium of £2,500 per year.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Accredited Clinical Coding Auditor to play a key role in shaping the future of our Clinical Coding service. This is an exciting time to join the Trust as we move towards a new EPR system and embrace more digital and agile ways of working.
You will bring strong leadership, excellent communication skills, and a passion for quality improvement. As a senior member of the team, you will act as a role model for excellence, supporting both day-to-day operations and the strategic development of the service.
There is opportunity for flexible working that could include working from home three days as part of the working week; this would be discussed at interview.
The candidate will also manage the quality and performance targets assuring maximum accuracy and productivity levels within the Coding Team both for coding quality purposes and in support of key performance indicators.
Monitoring of agreed key performance and quality indicators will form a major part of this role, with responsibility for supporting areas of under achievement. The post-holder will work closely with lead clinicians within their respective areas, to ensure that specialty level data is timely, standardized and robust to support performance. The post-holder will support the Head of Clinical Coding in developing and managing strategic plans for the department.
To set up and perform internal coding audits, identifying variances against benchmarks, using tools such as CHKS to identify target areas.
Participate in external exchange audits with other Trusts.
To provide mentorship of trainee coders as appropriate and as agreed with the Head of Clinical Coding within the department's quality framework.
A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries. staff restaurants and accommodation.
In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.