Clinical Coding Specialist

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Job summary

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Clinical Coding Specialist to join the centralised coding team across two sites. You will code across all specialties, advise on data recording practices, mentor junior coders and collaborate with clinical staff to ensure accuracy and timely delivery.

The role offers flexible working options including site-based, hybrid, and remote work, with the possibility of business-required on-site attendance for training and

Qualifications

• Experience in ACC coding and NHS clinical coding standards.
• Ability to QA data quality and ensure compliance with national coding requirements.
• Ability to train and mentor less experienced coders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Clinical Coding Delivery Team Manager to support coding delivery and data quality.
• Explain complex coding questions to clinicians and non-clinical staff while ensuring national standards.
• Analyse and abstract diagnostic and procedural information from patient records.
• Translate information using ICD-10 and OPCS and enter coding into the Trust's PAS.
• Mentor junior coders and engage with clinicians to validate encoded data.

Skills

National Tariff knowledge

Inpatient/outpatient coding

SNOMED CT

Microsoft applications

Clinician liaison

HRG Grouper

Clinical coding audits

Medical terminology

Workload planning

Initiative & ambiguity handling

Presentation of coding topics

Site-to-site travel

Education

ACC accreditation

Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

None

Job description

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Clinical Coding Specialist

The closing date is 29 November 2026

Are you an experienced ACC Clinical Coder looking for an exciting development and progression opportunity? Find out more below!

We are looking to recruit highly motivated and enthusiastic Specialist Clinical Coders to join our Trust to support the department in achieving mandated reporting and financial requirements, whilst also having the opportunity to progress professionally. You will be working in a large team alongside other coders and additionally with other specialist coders as part of a more expert team sharing knowledge and providing assistance to less experienced coders.

The post holder will be responsible for coding across all specialities at the Trust and will work as part of the centralised coding team with coding offices on two sites. As the Trust supports a positive work/life balance, coders can choose where they work:-

On site full time

Hybrid work approach (home and office based)

Fully remote (an on-site presence is expected for business needs such as certain training, equipment failure etc).

This will ensure that staff can build and maintain relationships with other team members - the existing team work successfully mainly from home.

R&R is also offered to ACC qualified coders.

Main duties of the job

To work closely with the Clinical Coding Delivery Team Manager to support the delivery of and ongoing improvement to clinical documentation and accurate clinically coded data. To advise on data recording practises to ensure clinical coding accurately reflects inpatient care delivered.Undertake clinical coding validationhighlighting training and data quality issues to the Clinical Coding Trainer and Clinical Coding Auditor.

Act as a support to the Clinical Coding Delivery Team Manager to facilitate contact with designated Divisions or specialties and communicate complex coding issues to medical and non-medical staff on coding queries and National coding standards to ensure accuracy and consistency of information.

To analyse and abstract diagnostic and procedural information from patient records across all specialties.

To translate diagnostic and procedural information using ICD-10 and OPCS and enter coding onto the Trusts PAS via encoding softwarein an accurate and timely manner adhering to the Trust's deadlines.

Act as a mentor and assist in the education of less experienced clinical coders. Ensure accuracy and completeness of the clinical coding to national clinical coding requirements. To work with clinicians on a regular basis to validate clinically coded data.

About us

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.

Our Services:

Acute 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:

o Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018

o Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)

o National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Job responsibilities

Please find attached detailed job description and person specification for main responsibilities and required.

Person Specification

Other

• Flexible approach to work
• Ability to travel across the various sites of the Trust

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

• Knowledge of National Tariff Payment System
• Knowledge of inpatient and outpatient coding process
• Knowledge of data protection legislation, Caldicott and other relevant guidance
• Knowledge of SNOMED CT
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Ability to exercise initiative and produce required results
• Self-reliant and able to deal with a high degree of ambiguity
• Planning, organising workload to meet deadlines
• Effective interpersonal skills to liaise with consultants, clinical and administration staff on issues of clinical coding and the associated administrative process
• Excellent IT skills including use of Microsoft applications
• Excellent concentration skills with attention to detail
• Excellent medical terminology, anatomy and physiology knowledge
• Experience of working with clinicians and/or senior staff
• Experience of undertaking presentations relating to clinical coding
• Broad experience of clinical coding a minimum of 5 specialties
• Experience of the HRG Grouper
• Experience of clinical coding audits

Qualifications

• Excellent standard of education
• Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC)
• Degree level education or equivalent experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust