Clinical Coding Auditor
5 months ago
JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION 1. JOB DETAILS Job Title: Clinical Coding Auditor Reports to: Clinical Coding Analyst & Trainer Band: 6 Unit/Department: Clinical Coding Location[1]: Cross-site AfC Job No: 2801e 2. JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY The Clinical Coding Auditor has responsibility for assessing and monitoring the quality of coding produced by the department. They provide feedback and guidance to staff and implement any systems necessary to ensure continuing improvement.
The post-holder must be a nationally approved auditor (registered with NHS England Terminology and Classifications Service) or willing to obtain the qualification within 12 months of appointment. They must be able to produce audit reports suitable for all levels of management within the Trust and to provide expert advice as necessary. Coding Auditors are also involved in the process of external audits, signing off any errors, challenging external auditor decisions when appropriate and helping to implement any recommendations as necessary. The Coding department is responsible for recording activity of around 260,000 inpatient Finished Consultant Episodes per year.
There are around 35-40 Coders in the Coding department. The Clinical Coding Auditor will be directly responsible for formulating and strategically implementing a programme of audits to monitor the work produced by each team and individual Coder within the department. The Audit programme will cover all speciality areas requiring extensive Coding knowledge, the individual will also have to undertake ad-hoc audit work at short notice to answer specific queries which will require adjustments to the planned work. Audit work impacts on all Clinical CSUs as the auditor will aim not only to address incorrect coding but work with clinical teams around documentation.
Highlighting and correcting errors will have a financial implication for the organisation; it is essential the auditor works with the finance team and ICB to ensure notice periods are adhered to. The post holder will be responsible for the feedback of audit results and training related to coding and PAS issues to not just the Coding team but to triumvirates, Clinical teams and external organisations such as the ICB. The individual will be responsible for making recommendations for service improvement and implementing a comprehensive audit policy document for the department, researching and implementing local clinical coding policies and maintaining these policies to ensure continued accuracy and consistency of the clinically coded information. The post-holder will be responsible for assisting with external audits; there are generally one to two of these per year.
Each year, they must compile and submit a more extensive audit of coding in the Trust (200 episodes). They must have extensive knowledge of the Clinical Coding process and the National Standards surrounding them. Clinical Coding is the driver behind nationally collected information and the correct reimbursement of funds for activity undertaken in LTHT. It is essential that the clinical coding is accurate.
The Auditors role is vital for the organisation to improve and then maintain high standards of coded information. The effects of improving the Clinical Coding are long reaching as it will affect all Clinical CSUs, Finance and Informatics, requiring the individual to have extensive knowledge of Acute Hospital Trusts and the external organisations involved. The individual will be responsible for the safe and efficient use of specialist Clinical Coding equipment for use by themselves and others within the clinical coding function. A key responsibility for the individual will be to provide training for the department through audit, ensuring that the team are adhering to National standards and working through errors with the team to understand the root cause.
4. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY Coding Related Audits the work of the department, in line with national and local coding standards and the auditor code of conduct. To provide expert advice, training and feedback to the Clinical Coding team. Provides input into reviews of coding local policies to ensure that they are comprehensive and meet national standards and guidelines.
Develops and maintains a comprehensive internal audit plan, in line with the needs of the department and wider organisation. Gives detailed audit feedback, producing professional reports, fit for presentation at board-level. Agrees recommendations with the management team. Is involved in giving direct feedback to the targets of all audits, tactfully and constructively.
Carries out (yearly) an extensive audit of coding produced by the team, for inclusion in the Trusts Information Governance Toolkit submission. Carries out audits on individual Coders when requested, to support internal management processes. Performs audits to assess whether Trainee Coders have met the accuracy requirements for progression. Assists with prep
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