Qualified Clinical Coder (NHS AfC: Band 5) - Clinical Coding - The Princess Alexandra Hospital [...]

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust; Harlow; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Harlow is seeking a Qualified Clinical Coder to deliver efficient coding services while supporting clinical governance and finance needs. The role involves expert guidance to coders and ensuring compliance with national standards. Join a dedicated team that values patient care and excellence.

Benefits

Free car parking

Minimum 27 days’ annual leave

Access to NHS Pension scheme

Flexible working options

Onsite creche facilities

In-house training courses

Discounted hospital restaurant

Staff health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• In-depth specialist Clinical Coding experience in Acute Trust.
• Evidence of attendance to Clinical Coding refresher course.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality clinical coding service for the Trust.
• Support coding team, ensuring adherence to standards.
• Analyse and extract diagnostic information from patient notes.

Skills

Anatomy & Physiology

Clinical Terminology

Organisational Skills

Education

Clinical coding foundation Course

Clinical Coding refresher course

Tools

Patient Administration systems

MS Word

Excel

Job description

Employer The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Princess Alexandra Hospital Town Harlow Salary £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum, plus 5% high cost area supplement Salary period Yearly Closing 28/05/2025 23:59

Qualified Clinical Coder

NHS AfC: Band 5

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

Our values

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.

Job overview

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

To support in the leading of the coding team assigned to support a specific area of Clinical work. 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.

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

Main duties of the job

· To identify uncoded activity be reviewing the daily discharges reports / uncoded reports

· Using clinical documentation on AlexHealth to identify, analyse, extract and interpret complex information relating the patients stay.

· At all times adhering to national standards and local coding policies exercise judgement and initiative in selecting the appropriate clinical codes to ensure that the coding accurately reflects the individual patient episode.

· To use own discretion and judgement to analyse often complex information available using coding rules and conventions to translate this information into the appropriate codes as set out by national guidance (OPCS 4.10 Office ICD-10) or any classification that may be implemented in the future.

· To routinely code a minimum of 40 episodes per day on average.

· To negotiate with clinicians over interpretation of coding guidance, escalating to the Assistant Coding Manager as appropriate.

· 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.

· To support the Clinical Coding Specialist Health Group Lead in motivating all staff in the Coding Team by discussion and analysis to ensure that the Clinical documentation and the subsequent Clinical coding is of a high quality.

. To participate in discussions of coding problems and issues with other clinical coders, for example at monthly departmental meetings.

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· Please see the attached Job description and person specification. This is available to download at anytime.

Person specification

Education and qulaifications

• Attainment of the Clinical coding foundation Course
• Evidence of attendance to a Clinical Coding refresher course, within the last 2 years

Experience

• Demonstrable in-depth specialist Clinical Coding experience across a wide range of Specialities, in an Acute Trust setting.
• Experience of using Patient Administration systems and encoding software

Skills and knowledge

• Demonstrable and extensive understanding of Anatomy & Physiology and Clinical Terminology
• Comprehensive knowledge of coding rules and Classifications
• Use of MS Word & excel to an intermediate level

Personal Qualities

• Excellent organisational skills
• Flexible approach to work and the ability to prioritise workload

What we can offer you:

• Full induction and onboarding process in our organisation
• Free car parking for our staff
• Structured pay scheme, including additional living supplement to your basic salary
• Minimum 27 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time staff)
• Access to our Alex Lounge, our staff only rest area with free tea and coffee
• Access to NHS Pension scheme
• Flexible working options available, in line with our flexible working policy
• Onsite creche facilities
• Annual appraisals with career pathways
• In-house training courses
• Discounted hospital restaurant
• Staff health and wellbeing health services and complimentary health provision
• Our Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all its employees. We welcome applications from anyone who meets the specific criteria of the post regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Reasonable adjustments to the interview process can also be made for any candidates with a disability
• All new colleagues joining PAHT will be subject to a probationary period of six months
• The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment
• Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and vulnerable adults. Offers of employment are subject to pre-employment NHS screening checks
• Providing false or misleading information or unsatisfactory pre-employment checks may result in the offer of a post being withdrawn

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