[Hiring] Accredited Clinical Coder @Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Role Description

We are recruiting for an Accredited Clinical Coder who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

• Accredited Clinical Coder (Remote coding availability)
• Division: Corporate
• Care Group: Strategy, Governance and Performance
• Band: 6
• Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per annum

The successful post holder will be expected to have passed the National Clinical Coding Qualification (NCCQ) and hold Accredited Clinical Coder status.

As a Clinical Coder you will ensure that all clinical information from patient records is translated into a coded format in accordance with National and International Clinical Coding Standards and Trust guidelines.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open, and Together. It is important that you understand and refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies/procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

Qualifications

• National Clinical Coding Qualification (NCCQ)
• Accredited Clinical Coder status

Requirements

• To analyse and abstract diagnostic and procedural information from patient records across all specialties.
• To translate diagnostic and procedural information using ICD-10 and OPCS and enter coding onto the Trust’s PAS via encoding software.
• To routinely use all electronic clinical systems available to ensure all relevant details are recorded for each patient spell.
• To ensure all discharged patient spells are coded by SUS submission deadlines.
• To regularly communicate issues with uncoded discharges via internal reporting processes in the agreed format.
• To maintain the levels of coding accuracy as defined by Data Security Toolkit Standard 1 Data Quality and achieve the performance metrics as defined internally by the Clinical Coding department.

Benefits

• Flexible working opportunities.
• Range of staff benefits including a gym, active health and wellbeing programme, on-site nursery, and cycle to work scheme.