Job overview

The post-holder will be a subject matter expert for Clinical Coding with delegated responsibility for a sub team incorporating particular specialty/specialties or wards supporting the Clinical Coding Team Leader in the delivery of Coding internal deadlines. This also involves ensuring all agreed national and local timescales are adhered to as set out within the NHS Contract and ensuring accuracy up to the agreed standard as set out by NHS digital.

They will be expected to promote awareness of Clinical Coding, related financial regimes e.g. PBR and HRGs throughout the Trust, liaising with Senior Consultants and Clinicians as a lead expert for Coding within the Trust.

Main duties of the job

· Communicate and liaise effectively with colleagues at all levels both clinical and non –clinical, e.g. nursing staff, other professionals and departments, both face to face, email/teams concerning routine or complex coding issues/anomalies, using persuasive skills whilst maintaining good relationships.

·Provide first line responses to Clinical Coding queries from own team and if      required to all other team members on a timely basis to ensure accuracy of      their coding.

 ·Responsible for undertaking the appraisal process for all identified Clinical         coders within own sub-team, this could include both B4 and B3 coders.

 ·To provide managerial cover (under the direction of the Clinical Coding             Manager) in the absence of the Clinical Coding Team Leader, which could         include planning staff workloads to ensure mandated deadlines are being         met.

 ·Required to support with FOI queries.

Working for our organisation

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.