Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Coding
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 343-NN-7178360-FM-HM
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- cross site
- Town
- either Epsom or Carshalton
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 has 20% R&R
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 6 Team Leader Clinical Coder
Band 6
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
About Us:
The Clinical Coding Department at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals is a vital part of our healthcare system. We are responsible for accurately translating patient information into codes that are used for billing, research, and planning purposes. Our work directly impacts the Trust's ability to recover income and plan services effectively.
Our Team:
Our team is comprised of skilled and dedicated professionals who are committed to delivering high-quality work within demanding time frames. We work closely with clinicians, medical secretaries, and other staff to ensure that all relevant information is captured and coded accurately.
Main duties of the job
Overview of responsibilities:
· To abstract and analyse complex clinical information from patient records and translate this into a coded format in line with National Standards. To have a high level of knowledge of Medical Terminology and Anatomy and Physiology.
· To enter the final encoded data onto the appropriate computer systems to meet essential Trust requirements for statutory information and financial flows.
· The post holder will work as part of a team of experienced trained and trainee staff and the job will involve rotation between duties working on all specialties across all the five teams.
· Deal with enquiries from all parts of the hospital.
· Locate source documents; read histology, cytology, and radiology reports and analyse complex medical information from the EPR.
· Ensure that patient records are processed in the correct manner and tracked to appropriate destinations using the computer tracking system.
· Act as mentor and assist in the education of less experienced coders.
· To be aware of wider information and patient administration service systems.
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post-holder is responsible for assigning correct clinical codes to diagnoses and operative procedures against nationally agreed standards, in order to produce reliable clinical information for commissioning, reimbursement (based on HRG assignment), audit, research and performance indicator production.
To work with clinicians on a regular basis to help validate their coding in order to produce more accurate coding to facilitate the National Tariff Payment System (NTPS).
The post holder is also responsible for coding of complex clinical coding scenarios and spend at least 75% of time in coding.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Accredited Clinical Coder qualification (ACC)
- Degree or equivalent qualification or experience
Desirable criteria
- ECDL
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial Clinical Coding expertise across multipleall specialties and levels of complexity, to be proven either by an acceptable portfolio of evidence and an internal examination.
- Knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy, and physiology
- Knowledge of PAS or equivalent systems (Cerner EPR)
- Good experience of Microsoft Office, including ability to use Excel spreadsheets.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse and abstract complex records.
- Ability to resolve complex coding issues and aptly extrapolate resolutions to other.
- Able to identify data quality issues and coding workflow impediments and use sound intuition to resolve.
- Ability to validate coding and feedback findings to junior coders, clinicians, and management.
- Attention to detail with a very diligent approach to work.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
- Ability to organise and prioritise personal workload as well support junior coders in managing their own work.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines and coding accuracy standards
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties 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
- Theo Bandara
- Job title
- Head of Clinical Coding
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02082962496
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