Clinical Coding Manager

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; East Grinstead; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to lead the Clinical Coding team at a specialist NHS hospital, ensuring effective management and high standards in clinical coding. This role involves overseeing a dedicated team, implementing national coding standards, and contributing to the Trust's clinical governance and performance indicators. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to training and development, where your leadership can make a significant impact on patient care and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical coding and management of a coding team.
• Strong understanding of national coding standards and guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Manage the clinical coding team and ensure coding deadlines are met.
• Provide training and development support for clinical coders.
• Ensure compliance with national standards and audit requirements.

Skills

Clinical Coding

Team Management

Audit Compliance

Training and Development

Education

Relevant Healthcare Qualification

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead the Clinical Coding team at QVH. Clinical coding plays a crucial role in the management of the Trust as it directly influences income and forms the basis for clinical audit, clinical governance reporting, benchmarking, clinical performance indicators, information governance, and medical research.

The post holder will ensure that the clinical coding department runs effectively and undertake long-term planning, objective setting, and the delivery of performance reviews, training, development, and clinical audit in conjunction with the Head of Business Intelligence and Clinical Systems.

Main duties of the job

• Line manage a team of clinical coders ensuring appropriate resource allocation on a daily basis.
• Provide development support for clinical coders through regular appraisal and personal development plans with targeted training and mentoring where appropriate.
• Ensure coding deadlines are met.
• Maintain high levels of accuracy and completeness in clinical coding assured by audit.
• Ensure that all mandated national standards and developments are implemented in a timely manner.

About us

Rated GOOD overall with outstanding care by the CQC. A specialist NHS hospital providing life-changing reconstructive surgery, burns care, and rehabilitation services across the South of England and beyond.

We specialise in conditions of the eyes (corneoplastics), hands, head and neck cancer, skin cancer, reconstructive breast surgery, maxillofacial surgery, and prosthetics, providing regional and national services in these areas of clinical expertise. Our world-leading clinical teams also treat more common conditions of the eyes, hands, skin, and teeth for the people of East Grinstead and the surrounding areas. In addition, QVH provides a minor injuries unit, expert therapies, a sleep service, and a growing portfolio of community-based services. Patients consistently rate QVH amongst the top hospitals in the country for quality of care.

Our success is underpinned by the skills and enthusiasm of our staff and a strong culture of partnership. We are fully committed to training and development of the workforce with support for continuing education and learning.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Ensure adequate cover is in place; managing sickness, annual leave, training, and other absence.
• Represent the clinical coding department in meetings, providing specialist advice and support.
• Organise team meetings and take an active part in general departmental meetings to ensure knowledge and learning is widely communicated.
• Ensure appropriate and effective planning, communication, and management of clinical coding projects which cross business units.
• Develop a culture of continuous improvement and service development.
• Regularly review and, if necessary, revise the department's working practices to take account of the department, Trust, and NHS mandatory requirements.
• Deal with complicated queries.
• Ensure timely and accurate coding completion to satisfy the needs of contracting and commissioning targets.
• Work with auditors in delivering feedback from audit results, reviewing personal development plans for the team.