Clinical Coding Specialist

The Methodist Church in Britain; Banks; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 34,000; Part time

Job summary

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an Accredited Clinical Coder to join the centralised coding team on a nine‑month fixed-term basis. You will abstract diagnostic and procedural data from records, code using ICD-10 and OPCS, and validate data with clinicians.

The role offers on-site, hybrid, or remote work and requires ACC qualification. Responsibilities include mentoring junior coders, ensuring coding accuracy, and communicating national coding standards.

Qualifications

• Broad clinical coding experience across multiple specialties
• Experience working with clinicians and senior staff
• Ability to mentor junior coders and educate peers

Responsibilities

• Abstract and code diagnostic and procedural information across specialties
• Translate diagnoses into ICD-10 and OPCS codes
• Validate coded data with clinicians
• Mentor and educate junior coders
• Plan workload to meet team objectives
• Communicate coding standards to staff

Skills

Accredited coding experience

IT skills

Attention to detail

Clinical communication

Time management

Education

ACC qualification

Degree-level education

Tools

Microsoft applications

Job description

This post sits in the centralised coding team at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, on a nine-month fixed-term basis. The work is abstracting diagnostic and procedural information from records across all specialties, coding it in ICD-10 and OPCS, and validating the data with clinicians. Coders may work on site, hybrid or fully remote, and the post is part-time. Fit depends on holding the Accredited Clinical Coding qualification.

What the job involves

• Abstract diagnostic and procedural information from patient records across all specialties
• Translate diagnoses and procedures into ICD-10 and OPCS codes and enter them on the Trust's PAS using encoding software, meeting Trust deadlines
• Validate clinically coded data with clinicians on a regular basis
• Advise on data recording practice so that coding reflects the inpatient care delivered
• Mentor and educate less experienced coders and act as the coding expert for junior team members
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of coding against national clinical coding requirements
• Refer more complex cases to the Clinical Coding Delivery Team Manager for advice
• Communicate complex coding issues and national coding standards to medical and non-medical staff
• Support the Clinical Coding Delivery Team Manager to engage Divisions and specialties on coding
• Highlight training and data quality issues to the Clinical Coding Trainer and Clinical Coding Auditor
• Use a range of knowledge resources to translate procedures where the coding process does not fully apply
• Plan own workload to help the team meet its objectives

Qualifications

• Accredited Clinical Coding qualification (ACC)
• Excellent standard of education

Experience

• Broad clinical coding experience across a minimum of 5 specialties
• Experience of working with clinicians and/or senior staff, including giving presentations on clinical coding

Skills & knowledge

• Knowledge of the National Tariff Payment System and of inpatient and outpatient coding processes
• Knowledge of data protection legislation, Caldicott and related guidance
• Knowledge of SNOMED CT
• Excellent medical terminology, anatomy and physiology knowledge
• Excellent IT skills, including Microsoft applications
• Excellent concentration and attention to detail

Other

• Flexible approach to work
• Ability to travel across the Trust's sites
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills for liaising with consultants, clinical and administrative staff
• Planning and organising workload to meet deadlines
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team, and to produce required results
• Self-reliant and able to deal with a high degree of ambiguity

Nice to have

• Experience of the HRG Grouper
• Experience of clinical coding audits
• Degree-level education or equivalent experience

What’s offered

• R&R offered to ACC-qualified coders
• Choice of working on site full time, hybrid or fully remote
• Opportunity to progress professionally