Senior Coding Analyst

LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a Clinical Coder to analyze patient information and ensure accurate coding in line with national standards. The role involves supporting clinical governance and finance through precise medical terminology translation. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in clinical coding and a strong understanding of medical terminology. Join a dedicated team committed to delivering exceptional patient care and improving community health outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant clinical coding experience across various specialties.
• Experience with standard clinical coding schemes (ICD-10 and OPCS4).

Responsibilities

• Analyze and extract diagnostic information from patient case notes.
• Provide a high-quality clinical coding service to support Trust needs.

Skills

Clinical Coding

Medical Terminology

Data Quality

Education

Coding Foundation Diploma

Health Sciences Qualification

Tools

Patient Administration Systems

Encoding Software

MS Word

MS Excel

Job description

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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

To analyse and extract diagnostic and procedural information from patient case notes, other source documentation as appropriate and information systems and assign the appropriate code, in accordance with local and national clinical coding standards in an accurate and timely fashion.

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.

Main duties of the job
• To analyse the information available using policies, procedures and guidelines and local and national coding rules and conventions to translate this information into the appropriate codes as set out by national guidance (OPCS 4 and ICD-10 or any classification that may be implemented in the future.)
• To deal with coding queries as and when is necessary throughout the working day and to communicate complex coding rules to medical, clinical, administration staff and external agencies.

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

Researching the appropriate codes to use (ICD and OPCS) referring to both local and national coding rules, conventions and policies. To access a variety of information systems, e.g. pathology, to obtain other information to inform the coding process and to ensure the completeness and accuracy of coding by checking results both in real time and by following missing results.

To support the Divisional Lead Coding Analyst in dealing with the uncoded lists, and ensure all outstanding coding is cleared as a priority without compromising data quality and meeting coding deadlines.

To identify data quality queries on Icare, for example patients not admitted, transferred and discharged, wrong Consultants and dates and liaising with Directorate or IT staff to ensure the issue is addressed.

To identify any data quality issues with the encoded data, where the system is not accepting the codes, and escalating as necessary to the Divisional Coding Lead.

To alert the Divisional Lead Coding Analyst to major problems identified with the patient administration system or the encoder.

To analyse the information available using policies, procedures and guidelines and local and national coding rules and conventions to translate this information into the appropriate codes as set out by national guidance (OPCS 4 and ICD-10 or any classification that may be
implemented in the future.)

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Coding Foundation Diploma including specialty workshops: • Neoplasm • Vascular • Obstetrics • T & O
• Trust in-house test.
• Evidence of Continuing professional development

Desirable criteria

• ECDL
• Other relevant qualification e.g. health sciences, clinical qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant clinical coding experience across a wide range of specialties
• Experience of using Patient Administrations Systems and encoding software
• Experience of coding audit
• Practical experience with standard clinical coding schemes (ICD-10 and OPCS4)

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good understanding of PbR
• Comprehensive knowledge of coding rules and classifications
• Use MS Word and Excel to an intermediate level
• Comprehensive knowledge of medical terminology and anatomy and physiology Knowledge of HRGs (Health Resource Group)

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, 294.6KB)
• Advert- Senior coder (PDF, 79.9KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)
• Visa and Certificate of Sponsorship Information for Applicants (PDF, 3.8MB)