Senior Clinical Coder | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust; Salford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in Salford is seeking an experienced Senior Clinical Coder to join their team. This role offers the chance to work with a variety of specialties, providing flexibility with hybrid and remote working options. Candidates should have the National Clinical Coding Qualification. The Trust promotes career development and offers a competitive benefits package, including generous annual leave and opportunities for personal development.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave

Protected hours for health and wellbeing activities

Qualifications

• Proven experience coding across multiple specialties.
• Additional experience supporting less experienced coders.
• Passion for high-quality data.

Responsibilities

• Code a wide range of activity accurately and timely.
• Collaborate across multiple hospital sites.
• Mentor and guide less experienced coders.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of coding services.

Skills

Accurate coding

Collaboration

Continuous improvement

Mentorship

Education

National Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC)

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical Coder to join our Northern Care Alliance (NCA) Clinical Coding Team.

At the NCA you’ll code activity across one of the widest ranges of specialities of any NHS trust — from obstetrics and paediatrics to spinal, neurosurgery, vascular, major trauma and many more. Few trusts can match this variety nationally, offering you an exceptional opportunity to expand your coding expertise and take on new challenges every day.

We are seeking experienced accredited clinical coders with proven experience coding across multiple specialities who hold the National Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC).

What we offer

• Flexibility – hybrid working (home and office-based across Bury, Oldham, Rochdale sites) or fully remote working where appropriate.
• Breadth of experience – exposure to one of the widest case mixes in the NHS, enabling you to continually develop and expand your coding skills.
• Career growth – clear progression pathways and strong support for internal promotion into more senior roles.
• Community – a collaborative, supportive department within one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the country.

If you are an ambitious clinical coder with multi-speciality experience and a passion for high-quality data, we’d love to hear from you!

Role: Senior Clinical Coder (Band 5)

As a Senior Clinical Coder (Band 5) at NCA, you will:

• Use your expertise to code a wide range of activity, from high volume routine day cases to the most challenging of specialist activity, always ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Collaborate with colleagues across multiple hospital sites as part of a large, supportive department.
• Share your expertise by mentoring and guiding less experienced coders, helping to build team capability.
• Play an active role in continuous improvement, contributing ideas and supporting the development of our coding service.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Learn more about us in our Candidate Information Pack (opens in existing window).

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Oct 2025