Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a highly motivated passionate ACC Clinical Coder to join our Coding Team on our journey to excellence.
The successful candidate should be motivated and enthusiastic, have strong interpersonal skills, extensive knowledge of clinical coding rules and conventions, as well as in-depth knowledge of anatomy and physiology and medical terminology. The post holder will need to have extensive NHS cross-speciality clinical coding knowledge and skills.
If you currently don't have your ACC but have 2 years + of NHS cross speciality Coding experience and are interested in joining our team we would be happy to work with you and our qualified Trainer will support you to work towards attaining your NCCQ.
As a team, we offer a completely flexible approach to working. This includes weekdays, evenings, and weekends to suit individual personal commitments and a healthy work/life balance. The Trust currently has paper medical records moving towards EPR and is able to offer 1 day per week working from home with the potential to increase in the near future.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent level of experience
- Accredited clinical coding qualification
- Clinical coding audit qualification or TAP clinical coding qualification
Desirable
- ECDL
- AMSPAR
- Clinical Coding Audit Qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience in trainer/auditor role
- Development of formal Training / Audit programmes within an Acute trust
- Delivering training to a variety of audiences, including clinical coding and medical staff
- Developing bespoke training packages to meet individual coder requirements
- Ability to undertake internal and external clinical coding audits
- Developing/mentoring trainee clinical-coding staff
- Extensive experience of PAS/hospital systems
- National clinical coding standards and practices
- National & local performance/quality standards
- Anatomy and physiology
- ICD10, OPCS4 and HRG4
- Information Governance Toolkit standards
Desirable
Skills
Essential
- Ability to deliver training and awareness sessions to all levels of staff
- Ability to provide detailed audit findings ti clinical coders
- Coaching skills
- Excellent presentation skills
- Ability to communicate at all levels
- Report writing skills
- Excellent IT skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent numeracy and literacy skills
Personal skills
Essential
- Highly organised, with a structured and logical approach to planning and prioritising workload
- Ability to develop collaborative working relationships across professional and cultural boundaries
- Ability to ensure behaviour reflects values of the organisation
- Ability to work with sensitivity/tact, including a commitment to confidentiality
- Resilient and able to work in a pressurised environment
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent level of experience
- Accredited clinical coding qualification
- Clinical coding audit qualification or TAP clinical coding qualification
Desirable
- ECDL
- AMSPAR
- Clinical Coding Audit Qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience in trainer/auditor role
- Development of formal Training / Audit programmes within an Acute trust
- Delivering training to a variety of audiences, including clinical coding and medical staff
- Developing bespoke training packages to meet individual coder requirements
- Ability to undertake internal and external clinical coding audits
- Developing/mentoring trainee clinical-coding staff
- Extensive experience of PAS/hospital systems
- National clinical coding standards and practices
- National & local performance/quality standards
- Anatomy and physiology
- ICD10, OPCS4 and HRG4
- Information Governance Toolkit standards
Desirable
Skills
Essential
- Ability to deliver training and awareness sessions to all levels of staff
- Ability to provide detailed audit findings ti clinical coders
- Coaching skills
- Excellent presentation skills
- Ability to communicate at all levels
- Report writing skills
- Excellent IT skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent numeracy and literacy skills
Personal skills
Essential
- Highly organised, with a structured and logical approach to planning and prioritising workload
- Ability to develop collaborative working relationships across professional and cultural boundaries
- Ability to ensure behaviour reflects values of the organisation
- Ability to work with sensitivity/tact, including a commitment to confidentiality
- Resilient and able to work in a pressurised environment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
