Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 411-COR-24-6052043-A
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Liverpool innovation Park
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 plus retention bonus
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Coding Lead
NHS AfC: Band 5
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
To apply for this post you must be an Accredited Clinical Coder.
The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of Clinical Coding services within the Trust including those undertaken in conjunction with clinical staff. The post holder will be required to deliver coding within the overall coding cycle and represent the coding team by working with CBU service teams and other colleagues. This will include clinical coding advice guidance and interpretation, and review audit and validation of records on a regular basis.
Main duties of the job
- To participate in the Internal Clinical Coding Validation Programme within the Trust. This will include with regular meetings with clinical teams to explore ways in which to improve coded data, analysis of coded data to improve the quality of coded data.
- As an ACC qualified professional, you must have the ability to communicate clearly and with confidence, offer advice and solutions, demonstrate empathy, leadership, attention to detail, reliability and business acumen related to Clinical Coding.
- Monitor data quality and clinical coding standards in line with local and national guidelines. Report any complex coding issues as directed for verification and/or resolution with NHS Digital. Follow up all responses with relevant staff.
- Demonstrate effective organisational and time management skills with the ability to work independently and as part of a team. Work flexibly across specialties. Be highly motivated and lead by example with the ability to motivate other team members.
- As an ACC qualified professional, you must have the ability to communicate clearly and with confidence, offer advice and solutions, demonstrate empathy, leadership, attention to detail, reliability and business acumen related to Clinical Coding.
Working for our organisation
Alder Hey has been officially accredited as a HIMSS Stage 7 hospital and is now working through a strategy refresh. Alongside this the Trust are upgrading their Electronic Patient Record (Meditech) to the latest version available, maximising our investment in core clinical systems to ensure our staff have the best tools available when providing patient care.
Liverpool Heart and Chest has been officially as a HIMSS Stage 6 hospital and have recently become part of the Digital Aspirant scheme, which helps NHS Trusts raise their Digital Maturity. The Trust has also recently commissions the Digital Excellence Strategy, a 5-year programme to deliver digital initiatives enabling a wide range of benefits. The 3 core themes that underpin the strategy are ‘Connecting Digitally with our Patients and Families’, ‘Digital Safety and Outstanding Care’ and ‘Insight Led Care’, all underpinned by a ‘back to basics’ service improvement plan.
We pledge to use digital to ensure that we are safer and deliver the best possible care at every step, for our staff we pledge their working day will be made better by delivery of a digital infrastructure that is based around their day to day needs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To participate in the Internal Clinical Coding Validation Programme within the Trust. This will include with regular meetings with clinical teams to explore ways in which to improve coded data, analysis of coded data to improve the quality of coded data.
- As an ACC qualified professional, you must have the ability to communicate clearly and with confidence, offer advice and solutions, demonstrate empathy, leadership, attention to detail, reliability and business acumen related to Clinical Coding.
- Monitor data quality and clinical coding standards in line with local and national guidelines. Report any complex coding issues as directed for verification and/or resolution with NHS Digital. Follow up all responses with relevant staff.
- To be responsible for uncoded finished consultant episodes for all specialties and delegate workload to ensure coding targets are met. To work autonomously without direct instruction or supervision when self- allocating work and achievement of daily coding targets. Assist the Clinical Coding Manager in achieving month end coding completion targets.
- Plan and prioritise own workload on a daily.
- Plan staff rotation
- Provide mentorship to more junior members of staff when required.
- Demonstrate effective organisational and time management skills with the ability to work independently and as part of a team. Work flexibly across specialties. Be highly motivated and lead by example with the ability to motivate other team members.
- To be responsible for abstracting and analysing complicated patient clinical records applying the clinical coding rules and conventions, using own judgement to translate cases. Inputting of data onto the Clinical Information System (Expanse) for all inpatient and day case episodes within the timescales agreed between the trust and its’ user organisations.
- Routinely extract pathology/histology/radiology information from IT systems to enhance the accuracy of coded data.
- Work on own initiative in collecting information by whatever means required. Occasionally this could include entering very specific areas of the Trust e.g ITU, HDU wards etc, Exercise diplomacy and confidentiality in pursuit of collecting this data.
Person specification
ACC
Essential criteria
- ACC
Desirable criteria
- Coding Experience
Experience in carrying out Clinical Coding to approved standards
Essential criteria
- GCSEs (A-C) or equivalent or work based experience
- Ability to interpret and analyse data
- Comprehensive knowledge of medical terminology and anatomy and physiology
- Planning and prioritisation workload to meet deadlines
- Flexible approach to work
Desirable criteria
- Experience of undertaking presentations relating to clinical coding
- Experience of mentoring junior members of the coding team
- Knowledge of Snomed CT
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Suzanne Williams
- Job title
- Clinical Coding Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Contact via email or MS Teams call.
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