Accredited Clinical Coder - Peterborough
Job overview
Are you an Accredited Clinical Coder with experience working within an acute NHS hospital setting?
The Clinical Coding team at our hospital site Peterborough are looking to recruit to our substantive team of multi skilled specialist Clinical Coders. The successful candidate will be ACC qualified with experience in coding a broad range of clinical 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- ACC Clinical Coder Band 5 - £32,073-£39,043 (dependent upon years of experience) per annum
- Hours: Full Time 37.5 hours per week
- Contract: Permanent
- Vacancy site: Peterborough
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification for more information regarding this role.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria- IHRIM Accredited Clinical Coder
- Educated to A Level qualification in sciences e.g. Biology or equivalent knowledge acquired through work based training
- AMSPAR Certificate in Medical Terminology
- ECDL IT skills qualification or equivalent experience in Microsoft packages
Experience
Essential criteria- Ability to code all specialties
- Communicate complex coding rules to clinical and non-clinical staff and external agencies
- Experience of working as a clinical coder in the NHS
- Use of hospital administration systems
- Demonstrate an understanding of clinical coding and its uses
- Knowledge of medical terminology, anatomical and physiological terms
- Attendance at Clinical Coding refresher workshops
key skills
Essential criteria- Analytical & judgemental skills
- Ability to abstract and analyse complex clinical records
- Ability to communicate complex information to clinical and administrative staff
- Planning and organisational skills
- Standard keyboard skills
- Eye for detail
- Operate on own initiative
- Undertake background research to achieve accurate coding
- Mentoring skills
- Ability to concentrate for extended periods of time