[Hiring] Deputy Clinical Coding Manager @Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Role Description

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites. Our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours.

At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Job overview:

• Additional £2,500 R&R payment
• Ensure the timely and accurate delivery of the clinical coding function within the Trust to support commissioning and data submission processes by ensuring the Trust’s coding activity deadlines are routinely met and that staff within the department achieve the highest possible standards.
• Responsibility for innovation in delivery of new coding methodologies and approaches, and in mitigating to a more automated approach.
• Work with senior clinicians and senior managers across the Trust, analysing complex coding data to answer queries on clinical coding, and to ensure that clinical coding is accurate to support Trust income and all other business and clinical purposes for which the data is used.
• Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with consultants and their clinical teams to ensure quality and depth of clinical coding is achieved.
• Manage, plan and organise the assignment of coding workloads to ensure an even distribution of complexity and volume, ensuring high standards of clinical coding completeness and accuracy within agreed local and national contractual deadlines.
• Responsible for daily first line management of the Clinical Coding staff, including attendance management, disciplinary and grievance procedures, annual leave, appraisal and performance management.
• Promote coding awareness and take part in Trust-wide clinical coding education by liaising with clinicians to validate coded information, attend clinical team meetings and deliver presentations to clinical and non-clinical staff.
• Lead projects related to Clinical Coding improvement work, with the intent to improve accuracy and completeness of clinical coding through improved sources of information.

Qualifications

• Ability to analyse, interpret and use analytical skills in situations that are highly complex and multifunctional.
• In-depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports including financial returns.
• Ability to create high-level presentations and reports for a variety of meetings both internal and external.

Requirements

• Contribute to the strategic planning of Department or Directorate initiatives, identifying interdependencies across functions, potential impacts on wider.
• Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes.

Benefits

• We actively promote diversity and inclusion.
• This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the Health and Care route.
• We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications.