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    Clinical Coding Officer - Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom - West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

    West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
    West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    The West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to recruit accomplished Accredited Clinical Coders to join their Clinical Coding team.

    The department offers comprehensive training for all coders with help developing existing skills and learning new ones.

    The department has an established internal Clinical Coding Audit Program.

    Hybrid working can be discussed at interview

    The post holder will have responsibility for the coding of all speciality based patient admissions, by abstracting clinical data from electronic patient records and translating it into diagnostic (ICD10) and procedure (OPCS4) coding classifications.


    Applicants will be eager to work with good organisational skills, be able to work well under pressure and prioritise their own workload.


    A first-class knowledge of medical terminology and anatomy and physiology is essential along with the ability to demonstrate competence in the use of ICD10 and OPCS4 classifications.

    The application of clinical coding standards across specialities is a prerequisite. Coders should have completed National Clinical Coding Refresher Course within the past two years.
    BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By our community


    We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk.

    We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.


    The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward).

    It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.


    Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

    Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

    We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

    To accurately extract relevant clinical information from the Patient Health Care Record and to assign appropriate codes following established National Coding Guideline
    To interface with clinicians, healthcare workers, and other relevant personnel in order to ensure coding accuracy and integrity are maintained at the highest level

    ~ To mentor and support all junior staff

    To seek guidance from Trust clinicians to address coding issues and discrepancies related to their specific specialities

    ~ Assign correlation of data from electronic patient record to 3M Medicode software for data, service improvement and HRG gathering

    ~ To promote among clinicians, health care workers and any other associated outside agency, awareness of the Clinical Coding role and its uses within the trust to raise the stature of Clinical Coding as the essence of professionalism

    ~ To interface with other Trusts, offices, and personnel in seeking ways, means, and ideas to improve the coding office processes

    Planning and Organising

    ~ To assist the Team Manager in maintaining departmental performance with regard to quality and quantity by upholding agreed standards

    ~ To assist the Team Manager in work allocation, supervision and planning tasks to all members of staff

    ~ Monitor own performance against previously agreed objectives

    ~ Organise own day to day work task, completing priority coding foremost

    ~ Assist the Team Manager in monitoring performance of junior members of staff

    ~ Training and Teaching

    ~ To seek and attend in-house training, workshops, formal training, open discussions, and briefing from various expert sources in order to maintain coding proficiency

    ~ To be responsible for attaining and maintaining proficiency levels necessary to sustain coding data accuracy and integrity

    ~ Attain and maintain proficiency levels in all tasks within the coding office and perform these duties as required

    ~ Mentor junior members of staff in speciality coding

    ~ Mentor junior members of staff in coding direction and assistance

    ~ Assist the Team Manager in the training and development of junior members of staff as required

    ~ To maintain medical terminology and coding conventions and to increase skill in long term development

    Policy, Service, Research Development

    ~ Participate in audit and monitoring of standards

    ~ To be responsible for increasing their own professional research knowledge by promoting a questioning and analytical approach to coding

    ~ Adhere to local coding office Policies and Procedures, conforming to National Standards as established by the Clinical Coding Team Manager

    ~ Ensure correct procedures are adhered to relating to telephone calls into department and take appropriate action as necessary

    ~ To support the Team Manager in the implementation of Trust Policies such as Risk Assessment and Incident Reporting management

    ~ Implement agreed Local Polices and Clinical Coding Guidelines, update training materials when changes require

    Administration

    ~ To attend discussions, meetings, and functions that have a direct bearing on the clinical coding process, as required. Ensuring coding processes are not compromised

    ~ Develop knowledge of the correct procedures and use of the Individual Performance Review (IPR) system

    ~ To uphold highest levels of efficiency relating to the correct usage of the eCare, 3M Medicode, ICE, Evolve and any other data storage systems required to maintain standards

    ~ Frequent prolonged effort for workload on a computer

    ~ Health, Safety and Security

    ~ Identify the risks involved in work activities and undertake them in a way that minimises risks

    ~ Work in line with Health and Safety policies and procedures within the workplace

    ~ International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS-4) within the Trust

    ~ Maintain National Standards established by the NHS Digital National Clinical Coding Standard Reference books

    ~ To support the Trust in complying with National Standards, for example CNST, Controls Assurance and National Clinical Coding Standards

    ~ Judgement for all complex training factors in presentation and feedback scenarios

    ~ To process and codify patients medical records and any other relevant documentation

    Certificate in Medical Terminology
    Clinical Coding Standards Course

    Clerical experience
    Wide speciality coding

    Evidence of supporting junior staff
    Time management skills
    Personal Qualities
    Flexible approach to working hours/duties
    West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
    West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust


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