Senior Clinical Coder
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Clinical Coding department at Hampshire Hospitals for an ACC qualified coder. We are looking for someone with enthusiasm and motivation to join our well established and busy Clinical Coding Department.
As an Accredited Clinical Coder, you will have experience of coding a variety of specialties that occur within an acute NHS organisation. You will have a flexible and adaptable approach to work and strive to create accurate clinically coded data, embracing the national clinical coding standards, rules, and conventions, to ensure the Trust data is sufficiently robust.
This role attracts a recruitment and retention premium of 20% of the basic annual salary.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Coding is a unique department within NHS Hospitals supporting Business Intelligence and Finance teams within Hampshire Hospitals.
The Clinical Coding team work hard to provide an efficient, reliable, and effective service to the Trust in order to provide data on the Trust's clinical activities, by abstracting information from various clinical documents and translating into diagnostic and procedure codes.
The post holder will be responsible for managing the volume of uncoded activity in assigned specialties against agreed deadlines. They will also be required to participate in coding audits and assist in the provision of high-quality information required by the Trust in a timely and accurate manner.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are a centralised coding team with coding offices on two sites. Coders can work on site full time or have the option to adopt a hybrid working approach, working part on site and part remotely.
Our source documentation for coding is a mix of paper and electronic documents, emphasising moving towards a fully electronic patient record.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of medical terminology anatomical and physiological terms acquired through work based training
- Science (Biology preferably) GCSE Grade C or above; or equivalent knowledge
- Knowledge of coding procedures and conventions, including all specialties in an NHS Acute Hospital environment
Desirable criteria
- DesirabKnowledge of encoding systems e.g.Medicode le
- Knowledge of Patient Administration Systems
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Analytical and judgemental skills so that you can deal with a broad range of complex activities and questions.
- Ability to give judgement when opinions are divided when coding complex cases or previously un-coded procedures
- Excellent communications skills including ability to relate to people at all levels within the organisation.
- Ability to understand, interpret and retain complex clinical written information
- Prioritise workload in line with personal and team targets.
- Excellent time management
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in an acute hospital setting
Skills & Ability
Essential criteria
- Able to facilitate effective communication between multi-disciplinary teams and non-health care individuals
- High level of analytical and problem solving skills
- Able to assimilate and disseminate information
- Ability to work under pressure and to prioritise and organise workload to deal with competing demands whilst meeting challenging deadlines
- Able to frequently concentrate for prolonged periods
- Ability to deal effectively with frequent interruptions
Other Specific Requirements
Essential criteria
- Self-motivated with the ability to work under pressure and deliver to tight timescales
- Able to prioritise commitments
Desirable criteria
- Ability to motivate, train and develop others
Our commitment to you:
We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
The paperwork:
- HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first - as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
- Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
- All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
- In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
- This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
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Documents to download
- Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 610.1KB)
- Annex 21 (PDF, 74.8KB)
- HHFT Employee Rewards & Benefits (PDF, 723.8KB)