Clinical Coding Auditor

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust; Eastbourne; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Recruitment and Retention premium

Job summary

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking an Accredited Clinical Coding Auditor to lead the coding team, drive quality improvements, and contribute to the Trust’s digital and agile transition. The role combines day-to-day operations with strategic development of the Clinical Coding service.

You will mentor trainees, oversee internal audits, and collaborate with lead clinicians to ensure timely, standardized data and strong performance against KPIs.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership, communication and quality improvement skills.
• Act as a role model for excellence and strategic development.

Responsibilities

• Set up and perform internal coding audits, identifying variances against benchmarks using CHKS.
• Participate in external exchange audits with other NHS Trusts.
• Mentor trainee coders within the department’s quality framework.
• Monitor agreed key performance and quality indicators and support areas of underachievement.
• Support Head of Clinical Coding in developing and managing strategic plans for the department.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Quality improvement

Mentorship

Auditing

Education

Accredited Clinical Coding Auditor

Tools

CHKS

Job description

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.

If you are motivated by high standards, continuous improvement, and the opportunity to influence Trust-wide data quality, we would be delighted to receive your application.

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.

There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Vijaya Chadalavada Job title: Head of Clinical Coding Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07580898327