Band 6 Team Leader Clinical Coder

Epson and Stelier University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Carshalton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare institution as a Clinical Coder, where your expertise will be pivotal in ensuring accurate clinical coding and improving healthcare delivery. In this role, you will work closely with clinicians to validate coding, ensuring compliance with national standards and enhancing the quality of clinical information. Your attention to detail and analytical skills will be essential as you tackle complex coding scenarios and contribute to the National Tariff Payment System. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a supportive and dynamic environment, where your contributions will be valued and recognized.

Qualifications

• Accredited Clinical Coder qualification required.
• Substantial Clinical Coding expertise across multiple specialties.

Responsibilities

• Assigning correct clinical codes to diagnoses and procedures.
• Collaborating with clinicians to validate coding accuracy.

Skills

Clinical Coding Expertise

Knowledge of Medical Terminology

Attention to Detail

Ability to Analyze Complex Records

Teamwork and Independent Work

Education

Accredited Clinical Coder Qualification (ACC)

Degree or Equivalent Qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office (Excel)

Cerner EPR

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder is responsible for assigning correct clinical codes to diagnoses and operative procedures against nationally agreed standards, in order to produce reliable clinical information for commissioning, reimbursement (based on HRG assignment), audit, research and performance indicator production.

To work with clinicians on a regular basis to help validate their coding in order to produce more accurate coding to facilitate the National Tariff Payment System (NTPS).

The post holder is also responsible for coding of complex clinical coding scenarios and spend at least 75% of time in coding.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Accredited Clinical Coder qualification (ACC)
• Degree or equivalent qualification or experience

Desirable criteria

• ECDL

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial Clinical Coding expertise across multipleall specialties and levels of complexity, to be proven either by an acceptable portfolio of evidence and an internal examination.
• Knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy, and physiology
• Knowledge of PAS or equivalent systems (Cerner EPR)
• Good experience of Microsoft Office, including ability to use Excel spreadsheets.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to analyse and abstract complex records.
• Ability to resolve complex coding issues and aptly extrapolate resolutions to other.
• Able to identify data quality issues and coding workflow impediments and use sound intuition to resolve.
• Ability to validate coding and feedback findings to junior coders, clinicians, and management.
• Attention to detail with a very diligent approach to work.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Ability to organise and prioritise personal workload as well support junior coders in managing their own work.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines and coding accuracy standards

Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Disability Advice Line: SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our Confidential Disability Advice Line at:

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Text: 07501066267

Email: [e-mail].

Our confidential answering service is available after 5pm.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• B6 Team Leader JD (PDF, 224.4KB)
• DBS Policy (PDF, 101.1KB)
• We're here to care (DOC, 39.0KB)