Senior Clinical Coder | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Basingstoke and Deane; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Basingstoke is seeking an ACC qualified coder to join their busy Clinical Coding Department. This role requires enthusiasm and motivation to ensure accurate clinically coded data in line with national standards. Responsibilities include coding various specialties, managing uncoded activity, and participating in audits. The position offers a recruitment premium and the flexibility of hybrid work arrangements, ensuring a robust contribution to clinical activities in the NHS.

Benefits

Recruitment and retention premium of 20%

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• ACC qualified coder with enthusiasm and motivation.

Responsibilities

• Experience coding a variety of specialties within an acute NHS organization.
• Create accurate clinically coded data in line with national standards.
• Manage volume of uncoded activity within deadlines.
• Participate in coding audits.
• Provide high-quality information in a timely manner.

Education

ACC qualification

Job description

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Clinical Coding department at Hampshire Hospitals for an ACC qualified coder. We are looking for someone with enthusiasm and motivation to join our well established and busy Clinical Coding Department.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Experience coding a variety of specialties that occur within an acute NHS organisation.
• Show a flexible and adaptable approach to work and strive to create accurate clinically coded data, embracing the national clinical coding standards, rules, and conventions, to ensure the Trust data is sufficiently robust.
• Manage the volume of uncoded activity in assigned specialties against agreed deadlines.
• Participate in coding audits.
• Assist in the provision of high‑quality information required by the Trust in a timely and accurate manner.

Qualifications

ACC qualified coder with enthusiasm and motivation.

Benefits

This role attracts a recruitment and retention premium of 20% of the basic annual salary.

Working Conditions

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.

Organisational Context

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.

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.

This advert closes on Monday 5 Jan 2026