Clinical Coding Specialist

Merseywestlancs; Knowsley; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an experienced ACC clinical coder to join a centralised coding team. The role supports multiple sites with flexible working options including on-site, hybrid and remote elements.

You will code across all specialties, mentor junior coders and ensure compliance with national clinical coding standards.

Qualifications

• ACC accreditation and degree-level education.
• Extensive knowledge of national tariff and coding processes.
• Experience coding across multiple specialties and using HRG Grouper.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Clinical Coding Delivery Team Manager to improve documentation and coding accuracy.
• Advise on data recording practices to ensure accurate inpatient care coding.
• Mentor less experienced coders and validate data with clinicians.
• Analyse diagnostic/procedural information and encode using ICD-10/OPCS.
• Collaborate with divisions to communicate complex coding issues.

Skills

Knowledge of National Tariff Payment S

Knowledge of inpatient and outpatient:

Knowledge of data protection, Caldicot

Knowledge of SNOMED CT

Teamwork and collaboration

Initiative and problem solving

Planning and workload management

Advanced IT skills (Microsoft apps)

Attention to detail

Experience with clinicians

HRG Grouper familiarity

Clinical coding audits experience

Presentations related to clinical code

Ability to work independently

Clinical coding across 5 specialties

Education

Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC)

Degree level education or equivalent

Job description

We want talented and enthusiastic people from all backgrounds to join #TeamMWL, with us you can learn, grow and develop yourself and your career, realising your true ambitions and aspirations.

Whatever you’re looking for in your career, you’ll find it here at MWL.

Main area Clinical Coding Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent: Fully remote working available Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 409-7759787-C

Site Whiston Hospital Town Prescot Salary £32,073 - £39,043 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/11/2026 23:59

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Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

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:

• 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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

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

Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.

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