Clinical Coding Delivery Manager

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is recruiting a Band 6 Clinical Coding Delivery Manager to oversee day-to-day coding staff, ensuring accurate coding within mandated timescales and supporting SUS and Payment by Results processes. The post holder will lead a coding team, resolve queries, and liaise with clinicians to drive coding quality across all sites.

The role offers development opportunities within a large NHS Trust that provides acute and community services across

Qualifications

• Experienced ACC Clinical Coder with experience of coding across a wide range of specialties for an acute NHS Trust.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day clinical coding staff to ensure timely, accurate coding for SUS deadlines.
• Lead on handling coding queries and liaise with clinicians and Trust staff to review coding.
• Provide operational delivery management support to the Clinical Coding Manager and projects.

Skills

Clinical Coding

ACC accreditation

Job description

Your role will include responsibilities for the day-to-day management of Clinical Coding staff to ensure all coding is completed timely and accurately for SUS deadlines and support Payment by Results with the assistance of all colleagues.The post holder will be responsible for ensuring provision of an optimum clinical coding service across Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

In addition, the post holder will be responsible for management of any coding queriesand, together with the Management team, they willbe proactive in liaising withclinicians and other Trust staff to review and discuss coding., The postholder will provide operational delivery management support, both generally and for specific time-limited projects to the Clinical Coding Manager. The Clinical Coding Delivery Team Manager will have day-to-day responsibility for the management of clinical coding staff, providing leadership and guidance to ensure that patient activity data is fully and accurately coded within mandated timescales, whilst adhering to national and local standards.

Are you an experienced ACC Clinical Coderwith experience of coding across a wide range of specialties for an acute NHS Trust and are lookingfor an exciting development and progression opportunity? Find out more below!

As a result of investment and restructure within the service, we are looking to recruit highly motivated and enthusiastic B6 Clinical Coding Delivery Manager to join our Trust.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme