Senior Clinical Coder | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

On-site option

Disability Confident employer

Job summary

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an Accredited Clinical Coder (Band 5) to join the Clinical Coding Team. The role focuses on accurate coding across complex specialties, supporting healthcare planning, reimbursement, and research.

The post holder will manage uncoded activity within deadlines, participate in audits, and collaborate with clinicians to improve data quality, with on-site or hybrid working options across multiple sites in Hampshire.

Qualifications

• Accredited Clinical Coder (Band 5) with NHS coding experience.
• Proven accuracy across diverse specialty cases and timely coding.
• Ability to mentor junior coders and support data quality improvements.

Responsibilities

• Code a diverse case mix across multiple specialties with accuracy and timeliness.
• Maintain high coding accuracy while meeting deadlines and productivity targets.
• Collaborate with clinicians to resolve coding queries and support data quality.
• Mentor and support less experienced coders to strengthen team capability.
• Participate in coding audits and provide high-quality information for reporting.

Skills

Accredited Clinical Coder

Clinical coding accuracy

Meeting deadlines

Job description

Senior Clinical Coder | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Company:

Company: Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivatedAccredited Clinical Coder (Band 5)to join the Hampshire Hospitals Clinical Coding Team.

We are seeking a self-motivated and enthusiastic individual who is competent in accurately coding across multiple complex specialties and who understands the importance of high-quality coded data in supporting healthcare planning, reimbursement, service management, statistical analysis, and research.

• Code a diverse case mix, from high-volume day cases to highly specialised activity, ensuring accuracy and timelines
• Maintain high levels of accuracy whilst meeting coding deadlines and productivity targets.
• Work collaboratively with clinicians and colleagues to resolve coding queries and support data quality improvements.
• Mentor and support less experienced coders, strengthening team capability.

Clinical Coding is a unique department within NHS Hospitals supporting Business Intelligence and Finance teams within Hampshire Hospitals.

The Clinical Coding team work hard to provide an efficient, reliable, and effective service to the Trust in order to provide data on the Trust’s clinical activities, by abstracting information from various clinical documents and translating into diagnostic and procedure codes.

The post holder will be responsible for managing the volume of uncoded activity in assigned specialties against agreed deadlines. They will also be required to participate in coding audits and assist in the provision of high-quality information required by the Trust in a timely and accurate manner.

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

We are a centralised coding team with coding offices on two sites. Coders can work on site full time or have the option to adopt a hybrid working approach, working part on site and part remotely.

This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Dec 2026

Salary: £32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata. Hours: Full-time. Location: Basingstoke, RG24 9NA. Job type: Permanent. Posting date: 27 Oct 2026. Closing date: 26 Nov 2026.

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