Senior Clinical Coder

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country with over 270,000 finished consultant episodes per year. The Trust has embraced a vision in which the clinical coding department is integral to the success of the organisation; aiming to maintain a specialist coding workforce whose skills and interests can best capture the complexity of work it undertakes. Coders work closely with clinical teams in many areas and the post holders will assist in developing processes and streamlining the efficiencies of clinical coding. A dynamic rolling audit program with a high activity of clinical engagement ensures that coding and clinical input work together in a productive and exciting partnership.

An opportunity now exists for 2 senior coders to join the Clinical Coding team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The coding teams across the trust work corporately in a rotation of five clinical PODS and are responsible for ensuring a responsive and accurate delivery of Trust activity to sustain trust financial flows and to support the operational and strategic management of the organization.

You will need to exhibit excellent analytical skills, logic, and a high level of interpersonal and communication skills both verbal and written. Flexible in your approach, you must be able to work as a part of the team to tight deadlines.

Main duties of the job

To participate with all team members in meeting strict local, national and contractual deadlines for the assignment of clinical codes using the classifications ICD-10 and OPCS-4, to ensure accurate and timely reimbursement for each patient treated within the trust.

To enhance the accuracy and completeness of the clinical coding through improved sources of information, engaging clinicians, and the Divisions and relevant departments in particular where it impacts on high cost and complex specialised areas where additional expertise is required.

Provide professional coding technical support to the coding teams and also SLA, Divisions and Information/ICT and Finance in these and other areas.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Academic achievements to a degree level or the equivalent in work experience
• ACC (Accredited clinical coding qualification)
• High degree of knowledge in Anatomy & Physiology
• Sound knowledge of Payment by Results/HRGs (Healthcare Resource Groups)

Desirable criteria

• Auditor/Trainer qualifications in Clinical Coding

Experience

Essential criteria

• *Not less than 3 years generalised clinical coding experience
• Experience in a wide range of specialties & their complexities
• Be able to meet the prerequisites of sitting either audit workshop or Train the Trainer courses
• Experience in Clinical coding terminologies and software encoding experience
• Hospital information systems & IT packages
• Proven experience in dealing with staff at all levels

Desirable criteria

• Project management experience/report writing

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• *Excellent problem solving ability
• Managerial skills
• Strong administration skills
• Ability to prioritise & plan
• Ability to analyse and justify complex HRG grouping

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 230.8KB)
• Functional requirements (PDF, 472.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)