Clinical Coding Divisional Lead

ESNEFT is seeking an experienced, motivated, and forward-thinking Clinical Coding Divisional Lead for Surgery, Gastroenterology & Anaesthetics to join our dynamic and high-performing Clinical Coding Department forward thinking Clinical Coding Divisional Lead for Surgery, Gastroenterology & Anaesthetics.

This post provides an exciting opportunity for established Senior Clinical Coders to step into a leadership role supporting the delivery of high quality coded clinical data that underpins patient care, Trust income, and national reporting quality coded clinical data that underpins patient care, Trust income, and national reporting.

About The Role

As a Clinical Coding Divisional Lead for Surgery, Gastroenterology & Anaesthetics, you will play a pivotal role in leading and managing coding activity within your allocated clinical division. You will work closely with divisional managers, clinicians, auditors, BI teams, and the wider coding service to ensure that all coded activity is accurate, timely, complete, and compliant with National Clinical Coding Standards.

You will also champion continuous improvement, support professional development within the team, and act as a key point of expertise for complex or challenging coding queries

If you are an experienced Senior Clinical Coder ready to take the next step and contribute to shaping the future of coding at ESNEFT, we would love to hear from you.

• Lead and manage a designated section of the Clinical Coding Department, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality, end-to-end coding service.quality, end-to-end coding service.
• Provide coding leadership for your allocated clinical divisions, attending relevant meetings and acting as the primary specialist point of contact.
• Ensure accurate abstraction of clinical data from patient electronic records and application of ICD 10 and OPCS 4.10 in line with national standards.

Monitor performance, ensuring adherence to deadlines and Trust KPIs.

Support implementation of new coding standards, releases, and organisational changes.

Assist in clinical coding audits, data quality checks, and remedial action planning.

Contribute to training and mentorship of new staff, including supporting trainees and Band 4/5 development coders.

Work collaboratively across sites (Ipswich and Colchester), promoting consistency and best practice.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rui Pontes Job title: Head of Professional Clinical Coding Email address: Rui.Pontes@esneft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07903 183744