Job overview

Do you have some knowledge of anatomy, physiology and medical terminology?

Are you a lateral thinker / problem solver, logical and with attention to detail?

Are you educated to at least A level standard, preferably with a biology related qualification?

If so, you could be just the sort of person we are looking for to join our busy Clinical Coding Team.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is looking to appoint a trainee Clinical Coder to help us capture the clinical activity we undertake at the hospital and our community sites. This will support a variety of processes within the Trust and underpins the income of the Trust. Accuracy and attention to detail are essential. The role requires long periods of VDU use.

This is a full time position (37.5 hours) based at Hereford Hospital.

Training takes around 2 years and consists of a Clinical Coding Standards Course, specialty workshops and courses and a period of supervised coding.

Main duties of the job

• Abstract and analyse clinical information from a wide variety of sources both paper and electronic formats
• Assign diagnostic and procedural codes to episodes of care in a timely and accurate manner
• Input codes into encoding software ensuring accuracy at all times
• Convey complex coding rules to a wide variety of staff within the organisation eg clinicians, managers and information staff and with staff outside of the Trust
• Identify and  retrieve missing information in order to achieve departmental and Trust targets on completeness of coding

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.