Accredited Clinical Coder

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., 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.

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.

Division: Corporate
Care Group: Strategy, Governance and Performance
Band: 6
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Interview date: Tuesday 29^th October 2024
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.