Job summary
Are you an experienced Clinical Coder with ACC Accreditation looking to take the next step in your career?
Here at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our existing professional team of Clinical Coders as a Team Leader.
You will be enthusiastic about the challenges of a busy working and constantly changing environment, with the ability to remain calm under pressure and to achieve strict deadlines. You will be a highly motivated individual, with the ability to motivate and influence others, suggest and implement ideas to improve team performance and efficiency and will have excellent communication skills.
The successful candidate will provide a vital and dynamic team leading role for an excellent and high achieving coding team. The Trust has a reputation for consistently achieving targets and for high quality clinical coded data, which is achieved by providing excellent standards of training, mentoring and support for all team members.
As well as being a competent and experienced Clinical Coder, listed below are some of the other key skills that are essential:
- Good Analytical and judgmental skills
- Good communication skills
- Good Keyboard skills
- Good time management skills
- A understanding of medical terminology, anatomical and physiological skills
- In depth knowledge and experience in the use of the Coding Classifications ICD-10 5th Edition and OPCS-4.10
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Daily, co-ordinate and line manage a portfolio of specialties based Clinical Coding Teams, to ensure coding is completed to strict monthly deadlines and to set data quality standards, to secure Trust income under National Tariff.
- Act as a lead and specialty advanced Clinical Coder within their Clinical Coding Team and beyond and will act as a Clinical Coding Advisor to the Business.
- Be a specialist advisor and links to the Divisions ensuring that clinical coder/clinical linkage is effective and proactively developing key business relationships with Divisional Stakeholders.
- Deputise for the Clinical Coding Service Manager, Assistant Clinical Coding Manager, Teams Leaders, and other Management roles, both within the Trust and representing externally when required.
- Undertakes direct complex clinical coding workload to maintain Advanced Clinical Coder status and expertise.
- Undertakes complex internal clinical coding audits for specialties and team members covered within their area of responsibility.
- The post will be primarily based at Doncaster Royal Infirmary but will require operational working across all Trust sites.
About us
Doncaster & Bassetlaw NHS FT is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 420,000 across South Yorkshire, North Nottinghamshire, and the surrounding areas. Our services are based over three main hospital sites employing over 6,000 colleagues.
It is our goal to give those who join Team DBTH the tools and opportunities to grow their career, so whether you spend just one year or fifty with us, it's our pledge to help youDevelop,BelongandThrive,Here.
As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to support a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.
We offer a range of benefits including:o Extensive range of learning opportunities o NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement commencing at 27 days holiday per year plus bank holidays (pro rata).o Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read both documents carefully.
Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read both documents carefully.
Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in a qualified Clinical Coder position in a complex coding environment in a healthcare setting
- A minimum of 3 years' experience of working as an Accredited Clinical Coding Officer
- Supervisory experience or a willingness to undertake a management programme to assist in the development of those skills
- Significant experience in cross specialty clinical coding experience
- Experience of/contributing to service improvements and changes to policy and practice
- Good understanding of the relevance of Clinical Coding in the context of Health Resource Groups (HRG) and the National Tariff initiative
- Ability to abstract and analyse complex patient clinical records at an advanced level
Qualifications
Essential
- Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification
- Educated to degree level in relevant subjects or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience
Interpersonal Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain in a confident manner, complex coding rules to Clinical Coding Team, Clinical Directors, Clinical Leads, consultants and General Managers
- Ability to positively influence and persuade others including Senior Management and Clinicians, overcoming resistance and barriers to understanding and to improve clinical documentation
- Ability to influence and motivate others
- Excellent team player
Organisational Skills
Essential
- Ability to work under own initiative, prioritise workload for teams, flexing plans when required to ensure that strict coding deadlines are met at all times
- Exceptional demonstrable organisational skills, systematic and able to manage own time efficiently
- Ability to work under pressure in a busy working environment and able to multi-task
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in a qualified Clinical Coder position in a complex coding environment in a healthcare setting
- A minimum of 3 years' experience of working as an Accredited Clinical Coding Officer
- Supervisory experience or a willingness to undertake a management programme to assist in the development of those skills
- Significant experience in cross specialty clinical coding experience
- Experience of/contributing to service improvements and changes to policy and practice
- Good understanding of the relevance of Clinical Coding in the context of Health Resource Groups (HRG) and the National Tariff initiative
- Ability to abstract and analyse complex patient clinical records at an advanced level
Qualifications
Essential
- Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification
- Educated to degree level in relevant subjects or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience
Interpersonal Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain in a confident manner, complex coding rules to Clinical Coding Team, Clinical Directors, Clinical Leads, consultants and General Managers
- Ability to positively influence and persuade others including Senior Management and Clinicians, overcoming resistance and barriers to understanding and to improve clinical documentation
- Ability to influence and motivate others
- Excellent team player
Organisational Skills
Essential
- Ability to work under own initiative, prioritise workload for teams, flexing plans when required to ensure that strict coding deadlines are met at all times
- Exceptional demonstrable organisational skills, systematic and able to manage own time efficiently
- Ability to work under pressure in a busy working environment and able to multi-task
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
