Graduate Clinical Coder: Health Informatics Trainee

The Methodist Church in Britain; Rochdale; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentoring

Graduate pathway

Performance reviews

Job summary

Hope Citadel Healthcare in Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale offers a structured graduate clinical coding scheme starting January 2027. The role reads hospital and community correspondence and records clinical content in patient records using SNOMED CT, with mentoring and progression across eleven GP practices.

Candidates will hold a life sciences or health informatics degree and GCSEs in English and Maths at grade 4/C or above, and will train in data quality, governance, and NHS data standards

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, health informatics, or related field.
• GCSE English Language and Mathematics at grade 4/C or above.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in documentation.

Responsibilities

• Review and code clinical correspondence using SNOMED CT.
• Extract information from discharge summaries, clinic letters, diagnostic reports and investigation results.
• Update patient records with diagnoses and treatments.
• Maintain chronic disease registers and data quality.
• Flag medication changes, follow-up needs and new diagnoses to clinicians.
• Collaborate with GPs, nurses, pharmacists and staff on coding queries.
• Support quality improvement projects and data quality reviews.
• Maintain confidentiality and comply with UK GDPR and NHS requirements.

Skills

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Data entry

Data extraction

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

GCSE English and Maths grade 4/C

Job description

Hope Citadel Healthcare in Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale offers a structured graduate clinical coding scheme starting January 2027. The role reads hospital and community correspondence and records clinical content in patient records using SNOMED CT, with mentoring and progression across eleven GP practices.

Candidates will hold a life sciences or health informatics degree and GCSEs in English and Maths at grade 4/C or above, and will train in data quality, governance, and NHS data standards