Specialist Clinical Coding Liaison Officer
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,471 - £50,364 Per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, NW1 2PG |
| Company: | University College London Hospital |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6230636/309-UCLH-3800-B |
Summary
A Vacancy at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
As a Specialist Clinical Coder, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the management of coding operations as well as the team through training, mentorship, and audit works. This is a multi-facet role and one that provides an exciting step into management through a supportive framework, engaging with a great coding team as well as key clinical division contacts across various services.
The coding team have an established track record for delivering coding quality within an infrastructure that provides for inclusion, joined up working and a collaborative approach, marking an ideal opportunity for someone looking to support this success and make a difference. Please note that there is an additional 10% of salary paid for possession of the National Clinical Coding Qualification in addition to the 20% inner London HCAS.
The Specialist Clinical Coder will be responsible for co-ordinating workload and resource across the team supported by the Coding Team Manager, ensuring that performance and high-quality coding standards are harnessed. This includes managing data flows, sickness, leave requests, 1-1 reviews as well as carrying out audit and work- checks that are fed back as part of the learning and development infrastructure.
Ongoing engagement with clinical divisions is key to ensuring symmetry between clinician and coder and enhancing the understanding amongst clinical teams, in regard to the information required by coding, its use and purpose and the pivotal role that they play within the process. Therefore, this role will include fostering good working relationships with clinical leads, attending clinical forums where required and providing an effective interface between clinical teams and the service.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Apr 2024
As a Specialist Clinical Coder, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the management of coding operations as well as the team through training, mentorship, and audit works. This is a multi-facet role and one that provides an exciting step into management through a supportive framework, engaging with a great coding team as well as key clinical division contacts across various services.
The coding team have an established track record for delivering coding quality within an infrastructure that provides for inclusion, joined up working and a collaborative approach, marking an ideal opportunity for someone looking to support this success and make a difference. Please note that there is an additional 10% of salary paid for possession of the National Clinical Coding Qualification in addition to the 20% inner London HCAS.
The Specialist Clinical Coder will be responsible for co-ordinating workload and resource across the team supported by the Coding Team Manager, ensuring that performance and high-quality coding standards are harnessed. This includes managing data flows, sickness, leave requests, 1-1 reviews as well as carrying out audit and work- checks that are fed back as part of the learning and development infrastructure.
Ongoing engagement with clinical divisions is key to ensuring symmetry between clinician and coder and enhancing the understanding amongst clinical teams, in regard to the information required by coding, its use and purpose and the pivotal role that they play within the process. Therefore, this role will include fostering good working relationships with clinical leads, attending clinical forums where required and providing an effective interface between clinical teams and the service.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Apr 2024
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