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Job summary

Main area
Coding
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
  • Home or remote working
37.5 hours per week (Remote coding availability)
Job ref
275-0126-ACC
Employer
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Medway Maritime Hospital
Town
Gillingham
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum/ pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/01/2026 23:59

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Medway NHS Foundation Trust logo

Accredited Clinical Coder

Band 6

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.

Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

Job overview

Accredited Clinical Coder (Remote coding availability)

Division: Corporate

Care Group: Strategy, Governance and Performance

Band: 6

Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 per annum

Interview date: Wednesday 4th February 2026

We are recruiting for an Accredited Clinical Coder who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will be expected to have passed the National Clinical Coding Qualification (NCCQ) and hold Accredited Clinical Coder status.

As a Clinical Coder you will ensure that all clinical information from patient records is translated into a coded format in accordance with National and International Clinical Coding Standards and Trust guidelines.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved.  Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply with the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

To analyse and abstract diagnostic and procedural information from patient records across all specialties.

To translate diagnostic and procedural information using ICD-10 and OPCS and enter coding onto the Trust’s PAS via encoding software.

To routinely use all electronic clinical systems available to ensure all relevant details are recorded for each patient spell.

To ensure all discharged patient spells are coded by SUS submission deadlines.

To regularly communicate issues with uncoded discharges via internal reporting processes in the agreed format.

To maintain the levels of coding accuracy as defined by Data Security Toolkit Standard 1 Data Quality and achieve the performance metrics as defined internally by the Clinical Coding department.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • National Clinical Coding Qualification (NCCQ)
  • Has passed a Clinical Coding Refresher Course within the last 3 years
  • Clinical Coding Standards Course

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Strong attention to detail and accuracy
  • Sound judgement and excellent analytical skills
  • Ability to work logically and methodically
  • Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise a number of competing demands
  • Ability to communicate confidently and effectively both verbally and written

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Practical experience of working in a clinical coding setting using ICD10 & OPCS in a large organisation
  • Coding experience in all clinical specialties
  • Experience using encoder software and PAS systems
  • Experience using various clinical systems including EPR
  • Experience of using IT applications including Microsoft Office

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Thorough understanding of the latest National Clinical Coding Standards
  • Extensive knowledge of human anatomy and medical terminology
  • Detailed understanding of the Payment by Results (PbR)/National Tariff Payment System (NTPS) and Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs)
  • Detailed understanding of statistical uses of coded data including Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) and Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR)

Values Based Question

Essential criteria
  • Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a ‘can do’ attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Chris Carter
Job title
Head of Clinical Coding
Email address
[email protected]
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