Clinical coder/Medical Secretary

Job summary

This dual role is essential to the smooth running of our clinical operations. You will provide efficient secretarial support to our clinicians and ensure accurate and timely clinical coding of patient records to support QOF, enhanced services, and data quality initiatives.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Coding Duties

• Accurately code clinical information using SNOMED CT
• Assist with audits and data extraction for reporting and improvement
• Accurately code clinical information from GP and hospital correspondence, pathology results, discharge summaries, and consultation notes using SNOMED CT.
• Apply codes to reflect diagnoses, procedures, investigations, and relevant health indicators.
• Ensure coded data supports effective patient recall, disease registers, and reporting tools.
• Work with GPs and clinicians to clarify unclear terminology and ensure accurate record keeping.
• Coordinate and manage all administrative tasks related to death processing.
• Review incoming correspondence and clinical letters, accurately identify any actions required.
• Ensure patient records are accurate, consistent, and updated in a timely manner.

About us

West Leeds Family Practice is a large friendly practice which puts patients at the heart of all we do. We have 5 GP partners, have approximately 21k patients and are based across 3 sites in the Pudsey/Bramley area.

We wish to expand our Administration team to include coding and medical secretarial work. We have recently started working with an AI tool Anima to improve the efficiency of our coding