Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Clinical Coding Department at Wye Valley Trust for a highly motivated individual to join the team as a Clinical Coding Team Leader, Band 6.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced B5 to gain useful experience in a junior management role whilst you will still be responsible for completing an agreed level of coding dependent on other priorities. We are keen to find someone who would like the opportunity to expand their career direction particularly into Clinical Coding Auditing or Training.

The role will involve shared responsibilities for the mentoring and training of brand new junior coders, supervision of the Coding Team and management of the monthly coding workload ensuring all monthly mandated coding deadlines are met.

This is a vacancy with a difference as we are looking for an applicant who will enjoy the opportunity and challenge to progress with their Clinical Coding career and develop their skills, either managerially or thorough audit or training. Support will be provided to enable this to be achieved, with both financial and allocated study time, 

The applicant will enhance their own learning with the continuous involvement of validation and data analysis, and will be expected to maintain their own high level of coding with regard to numbers coded and expected % accuracy.

Main duties of the job

The main area of responsibility is for the supervision of the Clinical Coding Team, ensuring all agreed national  and local timescales are met.

Provide own  high quality and timely coded data.

Provide training and mentorship to the clinical coding team members, where checking, validating and informal auditing may be necessary

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.