Clinical Coding Team Leader

Are you an experienced Clinical Coder with ACC Accreditation looking to take the next step in your career?

Here at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust we have an opportunity for you to join our existing professional team of Clinical Coders as a Team Leader.

You will be enthusiastic about the challenges of a busy working and constantly changing environment, with the ability to remain calm under pressure and to achieve strict deadlines. You will be a highly motivated individual, with the ability to motivate and influence others, suggest and implement ideas to improve team performance and efficiency and will have excellent communication skills.

The successful candidate will provide a vital and dynamic team leading role for an excellent and high achieving coding team. The Trust has a reputation for consistently achieving targets and for high quality clinical coded data, which is achieved by providing excellent standards of training, mentoring and support for all team members., Daily, co-ordinate and line manage a portfolio of specialties based Clinical Coding Teams, to ensure coding is completed to strict monthly deadlines and to set data quality standards, to secure Trust income under National Tariff.

Act as a lead and specialty advanced Clinical Coder within their Clinical Coding Team and beyond and will act as a Clinical Coding Advisor to the Business.

Be a specialist advisor and links to the Divisions ensuring that clinical coder/clinical linkage is effective and proactively developing key business relationships with Divisional Stakeholders.

Deputise for the Clinical Coding Service Manager, Assistant Clinical Coding Manager, Teams Leaders and other Management roles, both within the Trust and representing externally when required.

Undertakes direct complex clinical coding workload to maintain Advanced Clinical Coder status and expertise.

Undertakes complex internal clinical coding audits for specialties and team members covered within their area of responsibility.

As well as being a competent and experienced Clinical Coder, listed below are some of the other key skills that are essential:

Good Analytical and judgmental skills

Good communication skills

Good Keyboard skills

Good time management skills

A understanding of medical terminology, anatomical and physiological skills

In depth knowledge and experience in the use of the Coding Classifications ICD-10 5th Edition and OPCS-4.10

Doncaster & Bassetlaw NHS FT is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 420,000 across South Yorkshire, North Nottinghamshire, and the surrounding areas. Our services are based over three main hospital sites employing over 6,000 colleagues.

It is our goal to give those who join Team DBTH the tools and opportunities to grow their career, so whether you spend just one year or fifty with us, it's our pledge to help youDevelop,BelongandThrive,Here.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to support a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits including:o Extensive range of learning opportunities o NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement commencing at 27 days holiday per year plus bank holidays (pro rata).o Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.