Job summary
- Main area
- digital
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 411-COR-26-8043804-A
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Liverpool innovation Park
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Clinical Coding Manager
NHS AfC: Band 6
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 Children's 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
We actively promote diversity and inclusion. This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the Health and Care route. We recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit Health and Care Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK
· · ensure the timely and accurate delivery of the clinical coding function within the Trust to support commissioning and data submission processes by ensuring the Trust’s coding activity deadlines are routinely met and that staff within the department achieve the highest possible standards.
· · Responsibility for innovation in delivery of new coding methodologies and approaches, and in mitigating to a more automated approach.
· · Work with senior clinicians and senior managers across the Trust, analysing complex coding data to answer queries on clinical coding, and to ensure that clinical coding is accurate to support Trust income and all other business and clinical purposes for which the data is used.
· Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with consultants and their clinical teams to ensure quality and depth of clinical coding is achieved. In order to achieve this, the post holder is required to communicate sometimes highly complex coding rules to various medical, clinical and administrative staff.
Main duties of the job
· Manage, plan and organise the assignment of coding workloads to ensure, as far as possible, an even distribution of complexity and volume, ensuring high standards of clinical coding completeness and accuracy within agreed local and national contractual deadlines.
· · Responsible for daily first line management of the Clinical Coding staff, including attendance management, disciplinary and grievance procedures, annual leave, appraisal and performance management.
· Promote coding awareness and take part in Trust-wide clinical coding education by liaising with clinicians to validate coded information, attend clinical team meetings and deliver presentations to clinical and non-clinical staff.
· Lead projects related to Clinical Coding improvement work, with the intent to improve accuracy and completeness of clinical coding through improved sources of information, engaging Clinicians, directorate Managers and other relevant departments and teams, in the process. Produce regular reports for the Clinical Coding Manager.
· Responsibility for innovation in delivery of new coding methodologies and approaches, and in mitigating to a more automated approach.
· Work with senior clinicians and senior managers across the Trust, analysing complex coding data to answer queries on clinical coding, and to ensure that clinical coding is accurate to support Trust income .
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Working for our organisation
Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Analyse complex clinical operations, organisational structures, and care processes to facilitate decision making regarding clinical transformation.
· To be able to analyse interpret and use analytical skills in situations that are highly complex and multifunctional and use data to aid decision making and overcome barriers.
· In depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports including financial returns.
· To create high level presentations and reports to a variety of meetings both internal and external.
· Contribute to the strategic planning of Department or Directorate initiatives, identifying interdependencies across functions, potential impacts on wider
Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes
Person specification
essential
Essential criteria
- Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification (NCCQ)
- 5 years Coding experience
- Previos presentation experience
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Coding Auditor
- Previous Neurosurgery or Cardiac surgery coding experience
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
- Coding Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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