Job summary
We are looking to recruit a high calibre individual to be part of our predominantly agile working from home Clinical Coding Team.
An opportunity has arisen for a full time experienced Accredited Clinical Coder. The successful candidate must have extensive Clinical Coding experience, must be flexible and able to work under pressure to strict deadlines.
This role requires an organised approach to the workload and the ability to work in a very busy environment where a high degree of accuracy with attention to detail is paramount. You will also be expected to interact with clinicians and operational staff and will need to form strong working relations with staff at all levels within the organisation who are customers of The Health Informatics Service.
As part of the recruitment process alongside the interview, the candidate will be required to sit a test.
Main duties of the job
- Analyse highly complex clinical terms from EPR and other clinical source systems using judgement where details may be complex or conflicting.
- Provide consistently recorded data to well defined national standards. The Clinical Coding Department uses the ICD10 and OPCS classifications to record all diagnoses and procedures for inpatient and day case admissions.
- Check data quality and record necessary amendments.
- To liaise with various staff throughout the trust to facilitate timely, complete and accurate clinical source documentation for coding.
- To have a proactive and positive approach in working with consultants and clinicians to ensure that information is sufficient for requirements in providing high quality coded data
- Support the Senior Clinical Coding team to ensure continuous improvement in the quality of clinical data used for clinical governance, commissioning, and health needs analysis.
- Provide complex specialist coding advice for financial and audit purposes
- Manage own workload, without direct supervision, to ensure all relevant inpatient episodes are coded within the agreed deadlines to enable a complete financial assessment to be made.
- Keep up to date with any changes to clinical coding standards and attend training.
- Use Trusts clinical systems to maintain coding accuracy and facilitate completion of all coding within the timescales specified to meet the Trusts Contractual targets.
About us
We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
To abstract and analyse highly complex clinical terms from the Electronic PR and other clinical source systems using judgement where details may be complex or conflicting and provide consistently coded data to well defined national standards using ICD10 and OPCS classifications to record all diagnoses and procedures for inpatient and day case admissions.
Support the Senior Clinical Coding Team to deliver the agreed clinical coding service to meet the needs of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. Works with clinical and operational staff to ensure information provided in clinical systems is of a high quality and enabling continuous improvement in the quality of clinical data used for clinical governance, commissioning, and health needs analysis
See job description for further details
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
To abstract and analyse highly complex clinical terms from the Electronic PR and other clinical source systems using judgement where details may be complex or conflicting and provide consistently coded data to well defined national standards using ICD10 and OPCS classifications to record all diagnoses and procedures for inpatient and day case admissions.
Support the Senior Clinical Coding Team to deliver the agreed clinical coding service to meet the needs of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. Works with clinical and operational staff to ensure information provided in clinical systems is of a high quality and enabling continuous improvement in the quality of clinical data used for clinical governance, commissioning, and health needs analysis
See job description for further details
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential
- Accredited Clinical Coder (ACC) Qualification (and attendance at Coding Refresher if ACC qualification more than 3 years ago)
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in the specialist field of Clinical Coding
- AMSPA or equivalent in Medical Terminology
- IT literate including use of internet for research
- Commitment to continuing professional development
- Willingness to complete the Clinical Coding Mandatory Standards Refresher Training Course and other Clinical Coding as required
- Willingness to attend CHFT in-house training
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential
- The ability to communicate at all levels with tact and diplomacy
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Be able to communicate highly complex coding rules to coders and non-coders including clinical, admin and senior managers
- Persuasive skills and able to deal with clinical teams and managers
- The ability to work as part of a team and on own
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential
- Experience of working in a Patient Services environment
- Experience of Medical Terminology
- NHS experience
- Working as part of a team and supporting others
- In-depth knowledge of ICD10 and OPCS
- Extensive proven experience of coding all clinical specialities
- Awareness of Freedom of Information Act
- Able to demonstrate judgment skills to translate complex clinical diagnoses and procedures into accurate codes
- Awareness of clinical terming and coding systems
- High level of knowledge of medical terminology, anatomical and physiological terms
- Understanding of Information Governance and confidentiality
- Ability to prioritise activities according to deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to work as part of a team
- Advanced keyboard skills, use of VDU and inputting into a computer continuously
- The ability to prioritise activities and work to tight deadlines handling many different tasks at once
- The ability to work under pressure and concentrate for long periods requiring accuracy and attention to detail
- Awareness of NHS IM&T Strategy
- Awareness of security standards associated with information systems
- The ability to use own initiative and manage workload
- The ability to be thorough, accurate and reliable
- Ability to be proactive and responsible
- Maintenance of confidentiality
- The ability to interpret clinical information whilst having an enquiring mind and being adaptable
- Experience of working with different software systems in the NHS environment
- Problem solving
Desirable
- Experience of mentoring other clinical coders
- In-depth knowledge of HRGs and their role within coding
- Ability to work across boundaries within THIS
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential
- Accredited Clinical Coder (ACC) Qualification (and attendance at Coding Refresher if ACC qualification more than 3 years ago)
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in the specialist field of Clinical Coding
- AMSPA or equivalent in Medical Terminology
- IT literate including use of internet for research
- Commitment to continuing professional development
- Willingness to complete the Clinical Coding Mandatory Standards Refresher Training Course and other Clinical Coding as required
- Willingness to attend CHFT in-house training
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential
- The ability to communicate at all levels with tact and diplomacy
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Be able to communicate highly complex coding rules to coders and non-coders including clinical, admin and senior managers
- Persuasive skills and able to deal with clinical teams and managers
- The ability to work as part of a team and on own
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential
- Experience of working in a Patient Services environment
- Experience of Medical Terminology
- NHS experience
- Working as part of a team and supporting others
- In-depth knowledge of ICD10 and OPCS
- Extensive proven experience of coding all clinical specialities
- Awareness of Freedom of Information Act
- Able to demonstrate judgment skills to translate complex clinical diagnoses and procedures into accurate codes
- Awareness of clinical terming and coding systems
- High level of knowledge of medical terminology, anatomical and physiological terms
- Understanding of Information Governance and confidentiality
- Ability to prioritise activities according to deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to work as part of a team
- Advanced keyboard skills, use of VDU and inputting into a computer continuously
- The ability to prioritise activities and work to tight deadlines handling many different tasks at once
- The ability to work under pressure and concentrate for long periods requiring accuracy and attention to detail
- Awareness of NHS IM&T Strategy
- Awareness of security standards associated with information systems
- The ability to use own initiative and manage workload
- The ability to be thorough, accurate and reliable
- Ability to be proactive and responsible
- Maintenance of confidentiality
- The ability to interpret clinical information whilst having an enquiring mind and being adaptable
- Experience of working with different software systems in the NHS environment
- Problem solving
Desirable
- Experience of mentoring other clinical coders
- In-depth knowledge of HRGs and their role within coding
- Ability to work across boundaries within THIS
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The Health Informatics Service - Head Office
Unti 13, Ainley Bottom, Ainleys Industrial Estate
Elland
HX5 9JP
Employer's website
https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
