Clinical Coder
| Posting date: | 22 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £26,530.00 to £29,114.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £26530.00 - £29114.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 May 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE1 5WW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9358-25-0304 |
Summary
1. To accurately analyse, interpret and extract relevant clinical information and data (including complex conditions, treatments and High Cost Drugs) from a variety of electronic sources including Badger (Neonatal Care), CITO (scanned patient documents), CRIS (imaging reports), DICT3, Euroking E3 (Maternity admissions), Heart Suite (paediatric cardiology & surgery), ICE (discharge letters), iLab (pathology results), Intellect Web (cardiac surgery/cardiology), Medisoft (ophthalmology), Nerve Centre, ORMIS, Proton and Unisoft (endoscopy reports). 2. Responsible for managing own workload within broad guidelines. Have a joint goal with other coders to achieve coding targets. Assist colleagues with coding patient case notes if necessary, to ensure all coding is completed within the Trusts stated deadlines. This may include mentoring less experienced colleagues. 3. Responsible for identifying obstacles to meeting these deadlines and for taking appropriate action to overcome them. 4. Responsible for identifying and analysing patterns of errors and notifying these to manager, with proposed potential solutions. 5. To comply with both the Trust and departmental policies and procedures and implementing local policies when required. 6. To work with Clinicians to improve the quality of clinical coded information across the Trust, participating in multi-disciplinary team meetings as a coding expert. 7. To be a key knowledge resource for and assist with the development of documentation of coding processes, procedures and protocols to ensure quality and consistency within the hospital and adherence to national and international guidelines. Be responsible for the on-going revision and documentation of these processes. 8. Assist with Mentoring and developing inexperienced staff to enable them to exercise their own initiative in selecting appropriate clinical terms to accurately reflect the patients episode of care. 9. To undertake a program of Continuous Professional Development, to ensure professional coding skills and knowledge are kept up to date and maintaining the ability to work autonomously to the highest professional standards. 10. The post holder will be expected to have the ability to code more than one specialty.