Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Trainee Clinical Coder
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About the Role
We are recruiting a Clinical Coder to join our busy Coding department at Northumbria Healthcare. We have two coding teams covering seven sites. The successful post holder will be either based at Cobalt Business Park or at Wansbeck General Hospital - but may be required to work at any of our acute hospital sites within the Trust.
We welcome applications from both experienced and inexperienced candidates.
Responsibilities
An inexperienced Coder will commence as a Trainee Clinical Coder Band 3 and must be prepared to commit to the training and development required to become a qualified Clinical Coder and attain the National Clinical Coding Qualification (NCCQ). A trainee applicant will be expected to work fully on site for a minimum of 18 months to ensure adequate training, mentoring, and support can be delivered.
An experienced applicant will commence on either Band 4 (Senior Clinical Coder), or Band 5 (Clinical Coding Specialist), depending on their level of knowledge and experience.
We are able to offer hybrid and/or fully remote working to an experienced person who is able to fully demonstrate that they can work confidently and independently with minimal supervision.
The successful applicant will join our large clinical coding team and will be responsible for accurately assigning clinical codes to reflect patients' diagnosis and operative and intervention procedures using ICD-10 and OPCS-4 Classifications.
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- Abstracting and analysing complex clinical information from a patient's health record, including electronic discharge summaries, nursing notes, and diagnostic tests including imaging, in order to assign classification codes.
- The post holder will be responsible for accurately assigning clinical codes from ICD-10 and OPCS-4 to reflect patients' diagnoses, operative and intervention procedures.
Clinical Coding provides vital information to support improvements in patient care, supporting clinical purpose such as clinical audit, clinical governance, outcome measurements, treatment outcomes, and statistical purposes to support research, aetiology studies, health trends, epidemiology studies, clinical indicators, and casemix planning. The importance of accurate data is widely recognised across the NHS. Clinically coded data derived from the coding service plays an integral part in the management of hospitals and services.
Requirements
Please refer to the attached job descriptions for the Band 3 Trainee Clinical Coder, Band 4 Senior Clinical Coder, and Band 5 Clinical Coding Specialist for the essential requirements.
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About Northumbria Healthcare
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!
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Roz McAuley
- Job title: Clinical Coding Service Manager
- Email address: roz.mcauley@nhct.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01670 529477
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