Qualified Clinical Coder

NHS; Harlow; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust is seeking a Qualified Clinical Coder to provide high-quality coding services. This role requires expertise in clinical coding, adherence to standards, and the ability to lead a coding team. The position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to contribute to patient care quality.

Qualifications

• Attainment of the Clinical Coding Foundation Course is required.
• Demonstrable in-depth specialist Clinical Coding experience in an Acute Trust.
• Excellent organisational skills and flexible approach to work.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality clinical coding service supporting Clinical Governance and finance.
• Analyse and extract diagnostic information from patient case notes.
• Ensure adherence to national and local coding standards.

Skills

Anatomy & Physiology

Clinical Terminology

Organisational Skills

MS Word

Excel

Education

Clinical Coding Foundation Course

Clinical Coding Refresher Course

Tools

Patient Administration Systems

Encoding Software

Job description

Go back The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Qualified Clinical Coder

The closing date is 28 May 2025

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.

About us

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.

Job 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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

£29,970 to £36,483 a yearPer annum, plus 5% high cost area supplement

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working,Compressed hours