Higher Level Clinical Coder - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Description
NHS AfC:
Band 4
Main area
- Administration Services
Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
- Permanent
Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
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Job ref
A
Site
- QMC Campus
Town
- Nottingham
Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
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Salary period
- Yearly
Closing
- 19/06/2023 23:59Job overview
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
Working as part of a large team, you will abstract and analyse clinical information from digitised case notes, other relevant documents, hospital electronic systems and translate into diagnostic and operative procedure codes using the current classifications, adhering to the national standards and conventions, inputting the data on to the Trust's patient information system to meet the Trust' financial and statistical data commitments.
You'll need the ability to work independently, code accurately to national coding guidelines with little or no supervision and organise/prioritise your own day to day work requirements.
Main duties of the job
Abstract and analyse relevant clinical data from a variety of manual and computerised sources, including digitised case notes, laboratory reports and discharge summaries.
Ensure that complex clinical data regarding diagnoses and surgical procedures on patient episodes is coded using national (OPCS-4) and international (ICD-10) or any other classifications that may be implemented in the future adhering to all national standards and conventions.
Input coded clinical information into the Trust's patient information system in conjunction with a clinical encoder ensuring accuracy, completeness and timeliness at all times.
Work within deadlines whilst maintaining a high quality of accuracy and completeness of clinical coding
Effectively manage assigned workload.
Continue professional education and undertake personal professional development in order to refresh clinical coding skills.
Keep up to date on changes to code assignment, coding methodology and local policy amendments to ensure coding reflects the activity of the trust.
Participate in in-house audits to promote the accuracy and consistency of clinical coding and the representation of activity and case-mix within the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, catering for a population of 4.5 million. Operating 7 days per week and 24 hours per day.
Formed in 2006, we are now one of the biggest and busiest acute Trusts in England. We provide services to over 2.5 million residents of Nottingham and its surrounding communities. We also provide specialist services to a further 3-4 million people from neighbouring counties each year.
As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.
KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Abstract and analyse relevant clinical data from a variety of manual and computerised sources, including digitised casenotes, laboratory reports and discharge summaries.
Ensure that complex clinical data regarding diagnoses and surgical procedures on patient episodes is coded using national (OPCS-4) and international (ICD-10) or any other classifications that may be implemented in the future adhering to all national standards and conventions.
Input coded clinical information into the Trust's patient information system in conjunction with a clinical encoder ensuring accuracy, completeness and timeliness at all times.
Liaise closely with the data quality team to ensure correct episode data on patient hospital system
Identify and register new cancers for inclusion in the national Cancer Register
Work within deadlines whilst maintaining a high quality of accuracy and completeness of clinical coding
Effectively manage assigned workload.
Continue professional education and undertake personal professional development in order to refresh clinical cod
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