Clinical Coder

**What we look for**:

- Effective communication between clinical and non-clinical teams
- Self-motivated with the ability to work under pressure and deliver to tight deadlines as part of a team and independently
- Good time management and reliability
- Ability to extract Clinical information accurately and translate to Classification codes

Band 5 Clinical Coder Annex 21, Clinical Coding, Business Intelligence
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

**Who we are**:
Clinical Coding is a unique department within NHS Hospitals supporting Business Intelligence and Finance teams within Hampshire Hospitals. Clinical Coding requires accurate information extraction from patient records to translate into a data coded format for submission to national systems. This information supports benchmarking against other Trusts and for mortality, contractual, financial and also importantly clinical research.

We are based across two sites in Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust within Winchester and Basingstoke. The team comprises of qualified Clinical Coders, Trainee Clinical Coders, Clinical Coding Quality Assurance Leads and a Clinical Coding Manager. The teamwork across both sites coding a multitude of specialities from Ophthalmology to Pseudomyxoma Peritonei surgery.

**About the trust**:
The vision at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to provide outstanding care for every patient. We serve a population of nearly 600,000 people across Hampshire and West Berkshire as well as some people who access our specialist services from across the country.

Four core values (CARE) Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Encourage. These are in place to support of four clear objectives, provide outstanding care of patients, empowering all members of staff, sustainable growth and innovating for the future.

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) provides hospital services to around 570,000 people living in Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire, and specialist services to patients from all over the country. We deliver a full range of district hospital services in a variety of locations.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.