CLINICAL CODING SITE LEAD | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 16 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 August 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE1 5WW |
| Company: | University Hospitals of Leicester |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7306837/358-7306837-COR |
Summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified Clinical Coder looking to advance their career within the profession. To directly line manage a coding team of staff with a variety of different posts over three sites to support delivery of the coding service. You will be fundamental to delivering a world class clinical coding function to the Trust and other key stakeholders, playing a key role in developing, maintaining and evolving the Trust’s clinical coding systems, processes and service delivery to support the provision of in-depth and quality coding.
Through team work, you will ensure that every aspect of our service meets the rapidly changing needs of our organisation providing quality service to consultants, clinicians and non-clinical colleagues. You will be required to work with operational and corporate teams and clinical portfolios in the development and delivery of complex coding requirements. This will require analysis, interpretation and resolution of highly complex problems, covering a wide range of clinical and business areas including at a national level.
You should be able to demonstrate a high level of communication skills, excellent organisational and time management skills and the ability to work accurately under pressure to meet deadlines.Remote working is available to the successful candidate.
The main duties of the Site Lead role are:
• accurately abstract, analyse, and assign complex diagnostic and procedural codes using ICD-10 and OPCS-4 classifications
• work closely with clinical teams to validate and enhance the quality of coded data
• organise own & team work loads and work within deadlines.
• act as a mentor to junior coders and support their development
• contribute to clinical engagement, KPI monitoring, audit preparation and data quality improvement.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
Job responsibilities
For more information about the role, duties and expectations please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification document.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
• Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC)
• Completed Refresher course in the last 3 years
Experience
Essential
• Minimum 4 years’ experience of coding multiple specialties within an NHS environment.
• Experienced in the use of ICD 10 and OPCS-4 classification
• Experience in working in a Clinical Coding department in an Acute trust
Skills
Essential
Ability to analyse and abstract complex records
Ability to resolve complex coding issues and aptly articulate resolutions to other.
Able to identify data quality issues and coding workflow impediments and use sound intuition to resolve.
This advert closes on Tuesday 29 Jul 2025