Senior Clinical Coder

Overview

We are currently looking to recruit a Senior Clinical Coder (ACC) to join our centralised Clinical Coding Team, committed to providing accurate and timely coded data, for use by the Trust and secondary users. As a key member of the department you will be responsible for ensuring high standards of coding accuracy, efficiency and compliance with national guidelines. This is a full time,
37.5 hours per week, hybrid clinical coding role.

The clinical coding department of Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for determining the clinical coding of around 12,000 episodes of care per month. The Trust provides a full range of hospital specialties, supplemented by a significant number of regional and national specialist services.

The trust has a fully electronic medical record (Cerner EPR) and all clinical coding is undertaken from electronic source documentation.

The NCCQ (National Clinical Coding Qualification) is preferred and considered essential to apply for this post; however, we are open to considering applicants who have relevant experience but do not hold the qualification.

Candidates will be required to take and pass a 2 hour practical clinical coding assessment should they reach the second stage of the interview process.

Hold the NCCQ (National Clinical Coding Qualification) and demonstrate extensive expert knowledge of complex clinical coding across all specialities; have extensive experience in all aspects of clinical coding practice; conduct clinical coding across all specialities in accordance with all local and national policies, conventions and guidelines.

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We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where possible. All applicants who have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the post can opt for a guaranteed interview.

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The post holder is responsible for extracting, collating and coding clinical information, often highly complex in nature, relating to the diagnoses and operations for admitted care patients. This requires the application of all complex and routine coding rules and conventions pertaining to ICD
10 (International Classification of Diseases) and OPCS4 (Classification of Interventions & Procedures), incorporating published national standards. The post holder is expected to apply local and externally acquired knowledge of how clinical coding directly affects areas such as income generation, clinical decision making, Information Governance, nationally reported clinical performance indicators and mortality statistics, directing and assisting others in good day to day practice and achievement of Key Performance Indicators.

Participation in training and professional development programmes incorporating self-directed study to keep up to date with changes in both national standards and local policies. Trust-wide promotion of the clinical coding function, with clinical staff.

• NCCQ Qualification
• Familiarity with use of an Electronic Patient Record (EPR)
• Experience working as a Clinical Coder in an NHS Trust.
• Knowledge of hospital patient administration system

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Training & Data Assurance Manager, Clinical Coding

£31,049 to £37,796 a year £3,999 R&R pro-rata per annum