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We are looking for an experienced Clinical Coder to join our Clinical Coding Service at Whittington Health. This is for maternity cover hence a fixed term contract. Whittington Health is an Integrated Care Organisation providing a wide range of Acute, Community, Mental Health and Dental Services across North Central London. You will be responsible for coding clinical data as well as supervising some of the less experienced staff whilst working with the Clinical Coding Manager to ensure the Clinical Coding Team’s responsibilities are met.
The post holder will be part of a team responsible for providing coding service across income generating services.
The post holder will hold an ACC qualification with an excellent knowledge of ICD10 and OPCS 4 classification systems. They will have clinical coding skills and an ability to extract clinical coding data from a variety of sources including medical notes and trust systems.
- To lead and be responsible for the coding function within the assigned clinical units/ specialties.
- To assist the Clinical Coding Manager to develop, maintain and manage a skilled efficient coding team in order to provide high quality clinical coding service within the Trust.
- To achieve accurate, timely, and consistent clinical coding within set standards and targets.
- To be responsible for monitoring and checking quality of coded data within the assigned clinical units / specialties.
- To attend various meetings and deliver presentations on clinical coding when required.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sherwin Casidsid Job title: Clinical Coding Manager Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07789686417
