Trainee Clinical Coder

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust; Whitehaven; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27‑day holiday scheme

NHS Discounts

Salary Sacrifice schemes

Vivup counselling service

Job summary

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Trainee Clinical Coder based at West Cumberland Hospital. You will learn to extract diagnoses and procedures from health records, coding them with ICD-10 and OPCS-4, and inputting into the Patient Administration System.

Training may be residential and a 2-3 year pathway leads to Band 4 upon accreditation. The role includes initial on-site work with potential future home-working as systems evolve, and sponsorship checks

Qualifications

• GCSE English, maths and biology, including human anatomy and physiology or equivalent.
• Essential IT skills (EITS) or equivalent.
• NHS Digital Coding Foundation Certificate
• IHRIM ACC Qualification

Responsibilities

• Accurately extracting diagnoses and procedures and coding with ICD-10 and OPCS-4.
• Follow National Clinical Coding Standards to ensure high-quality data for statistics.

Skills

Teamwork

Deadline management

Initiative

Clerical work

Abstraction skills

Microsoft Office experience

Education

GCSE English, maths and biology

Essential IT skills (EITS)

NHS Digital Coding Foundation Certificate

IHRIM ACC Qualification

Tools

NHS coding/health IT systems

Job description

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Trainee Clinical Coder

The closing date is 09 November 2026

Trainee Clinical Coder, Band 3 Fixed Term for 36 months

Would you like to be part of a successful team committed to providing in-depth and accurate clinical information? If so, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit a Trainee Clinical Coder to join the Clinical Coding team based at West Cumberland Hospital, Homewood Road, Hensingham.

The principal responsibilities involve accurately extracting diagnoses and procedures from the health records, translating it into codes using the ICD-10 and OPCS-4 classifications and inputting them onto the Patient Administration System using encoding software. You will follow all National Clinical Coding Standards to produce data that can be tabulated, aggregated and sorted for statistical analysis. Currently this is done on site but as our Electronic Patient Records systems are developed, there may be the opportunity for home working.

Subject to obtaining qualification then graded to band 4

Main duties of the job

Candidates will be expected to attend a National Clinical Coding Standards Training Course (which may be residential) and follow a 2-3 year programme of study to achieve the National Coding Qualification; Band 4 will be awarded upon obtaining the accreditation.

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION:

CERTIFICATE OF SPONSORSHIP:

Please note, due to changes implemented by the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit theUK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see ourPolicy for eligible vacancies.

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Disclosure and Barring Service:

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.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as followsif applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £20.00 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £26.50. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

Enhanced Check: £41.00 + administration cost of £6.50 = £47.50. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

• 27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
• NHS Discounts*
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*
• Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems
• *Subject to eligibility

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GCSE English, maths and biology, including human anatomy and physiology or equivalent
• Essential IT skills (EITS) or equivalent.
• NHS Digital Coding Foundation Certificate
• IHRIM ACC Qualification

Experience

• Computer and Microsoft office experience
• Working with confidential information
• Work in an office environment
• Work within NHS.
• Medical records or Clinical coding.

Knowledge

• Equality issues.
• Continuing professional development with portfolio
• Medical terminology

Other Requirements

• Must be able to attend external courses
• Adhere to the Trusts Study Leave Policy
• Undertake a personal study programme in order to achieve qualification

Skills and Aptitudes

• Able to work effectively as part of a small team
• Able to prioritise work to meet deadlines.
• Able to use initiative appropriately
• Clerical or administrative skills Abstraction skills

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

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust