Clinical coding summariser / medical secretary

Bevan Community Benefit Society; Bradford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Bevan Healthcare in Bradford is seeking a Clinical Coder, Summariser and Medical Secretary to help ensure patient records are accurate, complete and clinically meaningful. You will support clinicians to make informed decisions and improve patient outcomes.

You will review hospital letters, discharge summaries and investigation reports, coding information in patient record systems and providing medical secretarial support to clinicians and teams.

Responsibilities

• Review hospital letters, discharge summaries and investigation reports and ensure important clinical details are correctly recorded.
• Review and summarise medical records, process clinical correspondence and accurately code information in patient record systems.
• Support data quality, identify coding issues and raise concerns in line with practice procedures.
• Provide medical secretarial support to clinicians and multidisciplinary teams, including managing referrals and clinical workflows.
• Maintain strict confidentiality and comply with data protection legislation and NHS standards.

Job description

This is not just any job. This is a Bevan job.

At Bevan Healthcare, we believe everyone deserves access to high-quality healthcare, regardless of their circumstances. Every day, we support people experiencing homelessness, refugees and people seeking asylum, individuals affected by substance misuse, and others facing significant barriers to healthcare.

As our Clinical Coder, Summariser and Medical Secretary, you will play an essential role in helping patients receive safe, effective and coordinated care. By ensuring clinical records are accurate, up to date and clinically meaningful, your work will directly support clinicians to make informed decisions and improve patient outcomes.

This role is about much more than data entry. Every discharge letter, referral and clinical code helps build a complete picture of a person's healthcare journey. Your attention to detail will help ensure vulnerable patients do not fall through the gaps and receive the care and support they need.

You’ll join a friendly, supportive and purpose-driven team that values compassion, inclusion, teamwork and continuous improvement. We offer a rewarding working environment, opportunities for development, and the chance to contribute to reducing health inequalities.

If you are organised, motivated, take pride in high-quality work and want to use your skills to make a genuine difference in people's lives, we'd love to hear from you., As a Clinical Coder, Summariser and Medical Secretary, you will play a key role in ensuring patient records are accurate, complete and clinically meaningful. You will review and summarise medical records, process clinical correspondence, and accurately code information within patient record systems to support safe and effective patient care.

You will review hospital letters, discharge summaries, clinic outcomes and investigation reports, ensuring important information such as diagnoses, long-term conditions, safeguarding concerns and other significant clinical details were correctly recorded. You will support data quality, identify coding issues, and actively raise concerns in line with practice procedures.

The role also provides medical secretarial support to clinicians and multidisciplinary teams. This includes processing referrals, managing clinical workflows, preparing correspondence, tracking outstanding actions, and liaising with hospitals and community services.

You will maintain strict confidentiality, comply with Data Protection legislation and NHS standards, and ensure information is handled securely and accurately.

You will also contribute to audits, quality improvement activities and service development initiatives, working collaboratively with colleagues to support patient safety, service performance and continuous improvement.

At Bevan Healthcare, our mission is simple: Health, Hope, Humanity. We are a specialist inclusion health GP practice and not-for-profit social enterprise, dedicated to providing NHS healthcare to people who often face the greatest barriers to accessing services.

Joining Bevan means becoming part of a team committed to reducing health inequalities and providing compassionate, non-judgemental care. We believe everyone deserves dignity, respect and the opportunity to achieve better health outcomes.

You will work alongside a friendly multidisciplinary team including GPs, nurses, healthcare assistants, wellbeing teams and patient services colleagues. Collaboration is at the heart of how we work, and every role contributes to delivering excellent patient care.

Bevan is a busy, varied and rewarding place to work. We value kindness, teamwork, flexibility, learning and innovation. Staff are encouraged to share ideas, support one another and help shape service improvements.

In return, you will join an organisation with a strong social purpose, a supportive culture, opportunities for development, and the satisfaction of knowing your work helps vulnerable people receive safer, better and more personalised care.