Clinical Coding Trainer

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; United States; Hybrid; USD 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Hybrid working

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Clinical Coding Trainer to design and deliver comprehensive training from trainee to Accredited Clinical Coder status. The role supports workforce development, quality coding standards, and collaboration with auditors and clinical staff.

The post offers hybrid working with flexible arrangements and a focus on continuous improvement in coding accuracy and data quality across the Trust's services.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering training, coaching or mentoring.
• Ability to design and deliver high quality training programmes for staff at trainee to ACC status.
• Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver structured clinical coding training programmes for new and existing coding staff.
• Develop and maintain training materials in collaboration with the MIAA Clinical Coding Academy.
• Create, monitor and manage departmental training plans and schedules.
• Support coders in achieving and maintaining national clinical coding standards.
• Deliver coding update sessions, coding workshops and education events.
• Work with auditors to identify training needs from audit findings and develop improvement plans.
• Support rollout of outpatient coding and EPR initiatives through education and engagement.
• Provide specialist advice to managers, clinicians and coding staff.
• Mentor and develop colleagues as part of workforce development.

Skills

Clinical coding training

Training delivery

Communication skills

Mentoring

Audits understanding

Education

ACC status

National Clinical Coding Qualification

Education/training qualification

Tools

3M Encoder

Dr Foster

Job description

Liverpool NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a highly motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Coding Trainer (full time). Should we not be successful in recruiting a Approved Clinical Coding Trainer, we will consider anyone who is three years post-ACC and willing to train towards obtaining this status. Trainee Trainers would be appointed on an Annex 21 contract. We currently offer a hybrid working arrangement with the additional support of a flexible working policy. The Clinical Coding Trainer will play a key role in developing the future clinical coding workforce across the Trust. You will be responsible for designing and delivering high-quality training programmes, supporting staff from trainee level through to Accredited Clinical Coder status, and ensuring compliance with National Clinical Coding Standards. Working closely with auditors, managers, clinicians and external training providers, you will identify learning needs, develop training materials, deliver workshops and provide specialist coding education across the organisation. You will also support workforce development, succession planning and continuous improvement initiatives to maintain the highest standards of coding quality and accuracy.

• Deliver structured clinical coding training programmes for new and existing coding staff.
• Develop and maintain training materials in collaboration with the MIAA Clinical Coding Academy.
• Create, monitor and manage departmental training plans and schedules.
• Support coders in achieving and maintaining national clinical coding standards.
• Deliver coding update sessions, coding workshops and education events.
• Work closely with auditors to identify training needs arising from audit findings and develop targeted improvement plans.
• Support the rollout of outpatient coding and Electronic Patient Record (EPR) initiatives through education and engagement with clinical staff.
• Provide specialist advice and support to managers, clinicians and coding staff.
• Mentor and support colleagues, contributing to workforce development and succession planning.

The Clinical Coding Trainer plays a critical role in ensuring coding accuracy, consistency and compliance with National Clinical Coding Standards. By developing coding staff, supporting audit outcomes and maintaining high-quality training programmes, the role directly contributes to data quality, organisational performance and the Trust's ability to accurately capture clinical activity and income.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £25.70 (standard disclosure) or £46.70 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

Our statement on modern slavery We have zero tolerance of slavery and human trafficking and are committed to maintaining and improving systems, processes and policies to avoid complicity in human rights violation and to prevent slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain. The Trust policies, procedures, governance and legal arrangements are robust, ensuring that proper checks and due diligence are applied in employment procedures to ensure compliance with this legislation. We also conform to the NHS employment check standards within our workforce recruitment and selection practices. This strategic approach incorporates analysis of the Trust's supply chains and its partners to assess risk exposure and management on modern slavery.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Accredited Clinical Coder with a passion for education and professional development to shape the next generation of clinical coding professionals.

The successful candidate would typically:

• Hold the National Clinical Coding Qualification and a recognised training qualification.
• Have significant clinical coding experience with Accredited Clinical Coder (ACC) status.
• Demonstrate experience of delivering training, coaching or mentoring.
• Possess excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Be able to influence, motivate and develop others.
• Have experience of coding audits and using audit outcomes to improve performance.
• Relevant first degree or equivalent experience demonstrated by substantial experience as a Clinical Coding Officer with proven successful outcomes.
• National Clinical Coding Qualification National Training Qualification.

Desirable criteria

• Relevant Diploma, other higher degree or equivalent experience
• Experience with 3M encoder
• Experience producing and monitoring coding process KPI's
• Experience of using the Dr Foster application, Experience of working in a Coding environment
• Experience of managing Coding audits, Ability to interpret information and to present information to diverse groups Trust wide, Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
• Negotiation, motivation and influencing skills, Manage conflicting priorities

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group) was formed on 1 November 2024, born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our communities. We are one of the largest employers in region, with over 18,900 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services that extend to more than two million people in the North West. We operate from five hospital sites: Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside, and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to several elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provide specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology and respiratory medicine, both in the hospital and out in the community. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms and mainly focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.