Accredited Clinical Coder - Peterborough

Accredited Clinical Coder (ACC) Band 5 or Band 4 without ACC status

Are you an Accredited Clinical Coder or Clinical Coder with at least two years experience working within an acute NHS hospital setting?

The Clinical Coding team at our hospital site Hinchingbrooke are looking to recruit to our substantive team of multi skilled specialist Clinical Coders. Ideally the successful candidate will be ACC qualified, but we would be interested to receive applications from Clinical Coders with the relevant experience in coding a broad range of specialties

Applicants must demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to engage with clinicians and all relevant support staff to ensure our coded data reflects accurately the care of our patients. Excellent analytical and judgement skills are essential in this role as is good working knowledge of medical terminology and human anatomy across a range of clinical specialties. You will be responsible for managing your own workload each day within the usual deadlines for submission of data.

We pride ourselves on sharing knowledge across teams with support from senior colleagues who may be nominated as mentors to assist all coding colleagues where appropriate. You will also be supported by qualified auditors and a trainer

• Salary: ACC Clinical Coder Band 5 £27055 - £32934
• Non-ACC Clinical Coder Band 4 -£23949 - £26282
• Hours: Full Time 37.5 hours per week
• Contract: Permanent
• Vacancy site: Hinchingbrooke

Excellent analytical and judgement skills are essential as is a good working knowledge of medical terminology and human anatomy.

Translation of clinical information into diagnostic and procedure codes from patient health records scanned on to an electronic document management system and variety of other electronic sources.

Applicants must demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to engage with clinicians and all relevant support staff to ensure our coded data reflects accurately the care of our patients.

Conduct validation exercises with the responsible Consultant to ensure correct assignment of diagnostic and procedure codes and to identify gaps in clinical documentation to support clinical coding.

Ideally you will have a good working knowledge of practical coding experience across all specialties within an acute NHS hospital setting.

You will be managing your own workload each day within the usual deadlines for submission of coded data.

Our teams work hard to be flexible and promote a health work/home life balance and so, agile working options are automatically considered for all roles within the Trust.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates from our local communities.

Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay and here are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
• Relocation allowance in line with the Trust policy
• Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
• Free staff car parking on all our hospital sites during this financial year
• In-house Physiotherapy Services
• Career development and training opportunities
• Emotional Wellbeing Service covering a range of online support, access to mobile apps and 24/7 counselling services
• Subsidised meals at our hospital restaurants
• Access to exclusive discounts, cashback and vouchers via NHS Discounts and Blue Light Card

If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.

Abstract and analyse complex patient clinical records from scanned documents and a host of other electronic sources.

Apply the coding rules and standards to assign accurately, diagnostic, surgical procedures and interventions using ICD-10 5th Edition 2016 and OPCS 4 classification of Interventions and Procedures v4.9/v4.10. Enter relevant codes on to the encoder software via the patient administration system.

Excellent communication skills to engage clinical and non-clinical staff to resolve complex coding issues.

Validate coded activity with responsible clinicians to maintain data quality.

Mentoring opportunities with junior members of the team

The successful applicant will be committed to Sharing Trust Values through our Personal Responsibility Framework which outlines the behaviours that demonstrate how we live our values - to each other, our patients, visitors and colleagues across the Trust and wider healthcare community.