Accredited Clinical Coder

3 weeks ago


Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to recruit accomplished Accredited Clinical Coders to join their Clinical Coding team.

The Trust are looking for committed and experienced Clinical Coders with excellent communication skills and expertise in the role as an Accredited Clinical Coder.

The department offers comprehensive training for all coders with help developing existing skills and learning new ones.

The department has an established internal Clinical Coding Audit Program.

R&R is established dependent on increment level.

Hybrid working can be discussed at interview

The post holder will have responsibility for the coding of all speciality based patient admissions, by abstracting clinical data from electronic patient records and translating it into diagnostic (ICD10) and procedure (OPCS4) coding classifications.

Applicants will be eager to work with good organisational skills, be able to work well under pressure and prioritise their own workload.

BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?c

Job summary

To accurately extract relevant clinical information from the Patient Health Care Record and to assign appropriate codes following established National Coding Guideline

To interface with clinicians, healthcare workers, and other relevant personnel in order to ensure coding accuracy and integrity are maintained at the highest level

To mentor and support all junior staff

Job responsibilities

Communication and Team Working

To seek guidance from Trust clinicians to address coding issues and discrepancies related to their specific specialities

Assign correlation of data from electronic patient record to 3M Medicode software for data, service improvement and HRG gathering

To promote among clinicians, health care workers and any other associated outside agency, awareness of the Clinical Coding role and its uses within the trust to raise the stature of Clinical Coding as the essence of professionalism

Facilitate improved communication within the department and between other departments, clinicians, managers, ward staff and other personnel

To interface with other Trusts, offices, and personnel in seeking ways, means, and ideas to improve the coding office processes

Planning and Organising

To assist the Team Manager in maintaining departmental performance with regard to quality and quantity by upholding agreed standards

To assist the Team Manager in work allocation, supervision and planning tasks to all members of staff

Monitor own performance against previously agreed objectives

To support the team ensuring monthly targets are met

Organise own day to day work task, completing priority coding foremost

Operate own workload day to day

Managing - People and Resources

To take personal responsibility to ensure the correct usage of all resources provided to perform assigned tasks

Assist the Team Manager in monitoring performance of junior members of staff

To identify and participate in any cost improvement measures as required

Training and Teaching

To seek and attend in-house training, workshops, formal training, open discussions, and briefing from various expert sources in order to maintain coding proficiency

To seek knowledge and experience levels required to maintain national Accredited Clinical Coder (ACC) status

To be responsible for attaining and maintaining proficiency levels necessary to sustain coding data accuracy and integrity

Attain and maintain proficiency levels in all tasks within the coding office and perform these duties as required

Mentor junior members of staff in speciality coding

Mentor junior members of staff in coding dire



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