Senior Clinical Coding Specialist
| Posting date: | 28 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,970.00 to £36,483.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £29970.00 - £36483.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 June 2025 |
| Location: | Sunderland, SR3 4AG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9155-CRAC-0525-30 |
Summary
The accuracy of clinical coding activity is vitally important for secondary care Trusts, not only to secure the correct income but also to inform decision-making regarding the future of clinical services. Coded activity is also used by secondary users within the NHS, Government and external bodies, who produce statistics such as standardised mortality rates, set budget baselines and monitor clinical outcomes and key quality indicators. Post holders should have attained the National Clinical Coding Qualification and be an Accredited Clinical Coder. The main purpose of the job includes: To be an expert clinical coder dealing with complex clinical cases and queries, and resolving issues with senior clinical staff. To be responsible for the daily operational supervision of the clinical coding team, in accordance with Trust and departmental policies. Monitoring of agreed key performance and quality indicators will form a major part of this role. The post holder will form part of the Clinical Coding management team and support the Clinical Coding Service as a whole in the overall management of the department. The post-holder will work closely with lead clinicians within all areas, to ensure that specialty level data is timely, standardised and robust to support performance. In conjunction with the Clinical Coding Management Team, the post holder will also act as a mentor to more junior coders, validate their work, and offer sound advice and supporting them throughout their training period. The post holder will also be required to provide advice to experienced Clinical Coders, often to resolve complex or difficult coding queries in accordance with Trust and departmental policies. To undertake regular coding audits and reviews to assess coding accuracy, depth and quality. To accurately code all in-patient episodes applying national classification rules and conventions using source material such as Electronic Patient record and case notes. To ensure the completion of all consultant episodes within the agreed timescales and to follow up any uncoded episodes promptly. To code all episodes with sufficient depth ensuring that the extracted data accurately reflects the complexity of the patients diagnosis, Co-morbidities and any Procedures or Interventions carried out during an episode of care. To liaise on a regular basis with senior medical staff and managers on matters relating to clinical coding and to provide information for HRG costing, mortality indices and Sepsis, GIRFT, Model Hospital analysis. To be the first point of contact in routinely providing expert advice and resolving complex coding enquires, and engaging with senior clinicians To use and interrogate clinical information systems to assess coding accuracy and quality To attend directorate or specialty meetings to feedback coding queries and instruct staff about how to improve coding standards. To contribute to the production of clinical coding reports (performance monitoring) for senior clinical and managerial staff. To organise, instruct and supervise staff workload on a day-to-day and weekly basis, including staff rotas and coding schedules. PLEASE REFER TO THE ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION FOR FULL DUTIES OF THE ROLE Please note the Trust are not able to offer Skilled Worker Sponsorship for this role as it does not meet the UKVI threshold requirements. Applicants are requested to consider this when making their application. Please visit Gov.UK for further information