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Clinical Coding Auditor
NHS AfC: Band 6
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We currently have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled Clinical Coding Auditor to join our audit and training team on a full-time permanent basis. This is a hybrid role consisting of working from home and working on site.
Suitable candidates will hold the Approved Clinical Coding Auditor Qualification and will have a hardworking and flexible attitude towards professional tasks at hand.
Interview date: TBC
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As Clinical Coding Auditor your responsibilities including, but are not limited to:
- Undertaking audits of clinically coded data in line with the NHS Digital’s audit methodology and code of conduct.
- Supporting the Clinical Coding Manager.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.
From 1st July we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.
The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.
Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:
- CARE that is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
- SAFETY that is of the highest standards
- COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
- SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
- PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients
Our achievements include:
- Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our staff benefits. Accessible version available upon request.
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KEY DUTIES
- To operate on own initiative referring more complex cases to the Clinical Coding Assistant Manager for advice
- To act in the capacity of coding expert and provides advice to junior team members on coding queries ensuring adherence to national clinical guidelines
- Undertake staff audits and ad hoc specialty audits
- Assign codes from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD10) and the Office of Populations and Censuses and Surveys (OPCS4)
- Participate in preparing audit reports for staff audits undertaken
- Participate in Departmental meetings and present the results of relevant reviews
- Demonstrate good presentation skills to colleagues, the multi-disciplinary team and Clinicians
- Coordinate engagement between Coders, Clinicians and Divisional Managers
- Responsible for planning own workload to ensure that the objectives of the whole team are achieved
- Maintain a professional standard of behaviour with all Trust staff
- Take responsibility for keeping up to date with current issues and developments within the coding department.
- Work with the Divisional Managers, Associate Managers and Clinicians to improve and sustain accurate clinical data recording to support clinical coding to National Standards
- Raise clinical coding issues with the Coding Manager
- Undertake clinical coding reviews as required and agreed
- Identify key areas impacting on HRG assignment and tariff making recommendations to the Clinical Coding Assistant Manager accordingly
- Work with the Audit and training team to identify key areas for clinical coding review
- Plan meetings with Senior Clinicians as and when necessary to undertake review of clinical information where queries have been raised
- To validate complex clinical data and procedures with Clinicians in order to assure depth of coding for accurate payment
- Analyse external audit reports and recommend to the Coding Manager and Divisions any corrective measures that need to be put in place to improve data quality and clinical coding outcomes
- Support the Auditors & Clinical Coding Assistant Manager in obtaining clarification on new interventional procedures and clinical practice within the divisional specialties to ensure correct understanding for code assignment and support cascading this information
- To liaise with clinicians and their support staff concerning interpretation of case notes documentation affecting coding
- To prioritise Junior Clinical Coders workload and reallocate work to cover sickness or leave at short notice.
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Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- GCSEs (A-C) or equivalent
- Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification (NCCQ)
- Clinical Coding Audit Qualification
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Extensive specialist clinical coding experience across all specialties
- Experience of working with the HRG Grouper
- Planning, organising workload to meet deadlines
- Experience of undertaking presentations relating to clinical coding
- Experience of mentoring junior members of the coding team
- Transferring coding skills and knowledge to others
- Experience of working with clinicians and or/senior staff
Meini prawf dymunol
- Knowledge of Information governance, data protection legislation, Caldicott and other relevant guidance.
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Firm grounding in medical terminology and anatomy and physiology
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Good understanding of Payment by Results framework
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of clinical coding rules and conventions.
- Effective inter-personal skills.
- Possess motivation and persuasion skills
- Excellent PC skills.
Other
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Excellent concentration skills, with attention to detail
- Flexible approach to work
Meini prawf dymunol
- Knowledge of Snomed CT
- Ability to travel to various hospital locations by own car/assisted driver
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Marc Holme
- Teitl y swydd
- Clinical Coding Manager
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07414 030 309
Rhestr swyddi gyda Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust yn Gwasanaethau gweinyddol neu bob sector