Divisional Clinical Coding Lead

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust; London; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a community-focused healthcare provider as a Divisional Coding Lead or Senior Coding Analyst. This role offers the chance to support a dedicated team in delivering exceptional patient care through accurate clinical coding. You'll engage with various specialties, mentor junior staff, and enhance your professional skills in a supportive environment. The Trust values respect, compassion, and inclusion, ensuring a positive workplace culture. If you're passionate about making a difference in healthcare and have the necessary coding qualifications, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical coding across multiple specialties.
• Evidence of continuing professional development in coding.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality clinical coding service supporting Trust's business needs.
• Lead and mentor junior coding analysts and ensure coding deadlines are met.

Skills

Clinical Coding

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Attention to Detail

Interpersonal Skills

Education

National Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC)

Coding Foundation Diploma

Degree in Anatomy or Physiology

Tools

Patient Administration Systems

Encoding Software

Job description

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

DIVISIONAL CODING LEAD / SENIOR CODING ANALYST - FLEXIBLE HYBRID WORKING - 15% R & R

Are you an experienced Senior coder with ACC qualification or without an ACC qualification?

We have a role for you to join our esteemed coding team as a Band 6 Divisional Coding lead or Band 5 Senior coding Analyst.

Salary

Band 6 - Outer London Pay £42,938 upto 50,696 per annum pro rata depending on years of experience plus 15% R&R (ACC)

Band 5 - Outer London Pay Starting £34,521-upto £41955 per annum prorate depending on years of experience (NONACC)

** Previous applicants need not apply**

Main duties of the job

You will have gained experience of coding a number of Specialty areas including Trauma & Orthopaedics, Urology, General Surgery, General/Elderly Medicine, Obstetrics and Paediatrics.

You will provide support and mentoring junior Clinical Coding Analysts as well as engaging with clinicians on various specialities.

You will also be expected to continue your professional development by attending Coding courses and other relevant training courses.

15 % R&R premium for staff with ACC qualification.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide an efficient and high-quality clinical coding service to support the business needs of the Trust, including Clinical Governance, Information Governance and finance by ensuring accurate translation and input of medical terminology.

To act as an expert Clinical Coder, guided by occupational policies, assisting coders with complex coding queries, providing expert advice to other departments on coding issues.

To lead the coding team assigned to support a specific area of Clinical work (which may be directly aligned with one of the Trusts Directorates or work on patients discharged from a specific type of ward)). You will be responsible for ensuring that coding deadlines are met and working with senior staff within the department for ensuring that staff are adhering to national and local coding standards, polices and guidelines.

Ensuring that the mandatory and coding training of staff within the team is up to date, and that performance is at the expected level linking into the PDR process.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• National Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC degree level)
• Coding Foundation Diploma including specialty workshops: • Neoplasm • Vascular • Obstetrics • T & O
• Have attended a refresher course
• Evidence of Continuing professional development

Desirable criteria

• ECDL
• Approved Clinical Coding Auditor
• Other relevant qualification e.g. health sciences, clinical qualification
• Degree in an Anatomy or Physiology Related subject.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex information
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritise and evaluate options
• To judge from textural information the accurate coding hierarchy of coding with local practices
• An inquiring mind with willingness to learn new skills to high standard
• To analyse and extract relevant information and attention to details
• Advanced keyboard skills
• A methodical and systematic approach to work
• Successfully manage conflicting demands and achieve outcomes
• Ability to work to deadlines in a pressurised environment

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant in depth clinical coding experience across a wide range of specialties in an Acute Trust
• Experience of using Patient Administrations Systems and encoding software
• Demonstrable and extensive understanding of Anatomy and Physiology and clinical terminology
• Demonstrable and extensive practical experience with standard clinical coding schemes (ICD-10 and OPCS4)
• Experience of coding audit

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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Documents to download

• JD (PDF, 264.8KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)