Senior Clinical Coder/Clinical Coding Specialist

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Someone new to clinical coding will follow Annex 21 Agenda for Change. You will start on 70% of the top of Band 4 (i.e. £16,909) and move to 75% (i.e. £18,117) after one year. After two years you will move onto the starting point of Band 4 (£21,892). At this time you will be required to sit the National Clinical Coding Exam. You will then progress as normal within the Band 4 scale. There will be further opportunities for you to progress onto the Band 5 scale. This will be dependent upon successful achievement of 3 years at the Band 4 level and significant practical coding experience across a wide range of complex specialties.

To apply directly to a Clinical Coding Specialist role, you will be expected to hold the NCCQ or have equivalent experience, evidenced through achieving, and maintaining Level 2, or above, competencies in individual coder audits, for a minimum of three years. Significant practical coding experience across a wide range of complex specialties is essential.

We are looking to recruit a motivated team player to join our Clinical Coding Department. We are a large team spread across 4 acute sites within the Trust. We pride ourselves on recording accurate quality data that is used for national reporting. Clinical coding data is essential for the effective management of the Trust, and directly and crucially influences the Trust’s income in line with the Payment by Results (PbR) process.

The successful candidate will join our clinical coding team and be responsible for the abstraction of clinical data from patient case notes, translating it accurately and in a timely manner into diagnostic and procedure/intervention codes using ICD-10 and OPCS-4 classifications.

Attention to detail and an excellent concentration span are essential.

A minimum of 5 GCSEs at Grade C or above are required, including Maths and English, or equivalent. Knowledge of medical terminology, human anatomy and physiology would be advantageous.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Roz McAuley Job title: Deputy Clinical Coding Service Manager Email address: rosalind.mcauley@nhct.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0191 607 2679