About this role
Job summary
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ensure the timely and accurate delivery of the clinical coding function within the Trust to support commissioning and data submission processes by ensuring the Trust's coding activity deadlines are routinely met and that staff within the department achieve the highest possible standards.
Responsibility for innovation in delivery of new coding methodologies and approaches, and in mitigating to a more automated approach.
Work with senior clinicians and senior managers across the Trust, analysing complex coding data to answer queries on clinical coding, and to ensure that clinical coding is accurate to support Trust income and all other business and clinical purposes for which the data is used.
Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with consultants and their clinical teams to ensure quality and depth of clinical coding is achieved. In order to achieve this, the post holder is required to communicate sometimes highly complex coding rules to various medical, clinical and administrative staff.
Main duties of the job
Manage, plan and organise the assignment of coding workloads to ensure, as far as possible, an even distribution of complexity and volume, ensuring high standards of clinical coding completeness and accuracy within agreed local and national contractual deadlines.
Responsible for daily first line management of the Clinical Coding staff, including attendance management, disciplinary and grievance procedures, annual leave, appraisal and performance management.
Promote coding awareness and take part in Trust-wide clinical coding education by liaising with clinicians to validate coded information, attend clinical team meetings and deliver presentations to clinical and non-clinical staff.
Lead projects related to Clinical Coding improvement work, with the intent to improve accuracy and completeness of clinical coding through improved sources of information, engaging Clinicians, directorate Managers and other relevant departments and teams, in the process. Produce regular reports for the Clinical Coding Manager.
Responsibility for innovation in delivery of new coding methodologies and approaches, and in mitigating to a more automated approach.
Work with senior clinicians and senior managers across the Trust, analysing complex coding data to answer queries on clinical coding, and to ensure that clinical coding is accurate to support Trust income .
About us
Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship.You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.
Job description Job responsibilities
Analyse complex clinical operations, organisational structures, and care processes to facilitate decision making regarding clinical transformation.
To be able to analyse interpret and use analytical skills in situations that are highly complex and multifunctional and use data to aid decision making and overcome barriers.
In depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports including financial returns.
To create high level presentations and reports to a variety of meetings both internal and external.
Contribute to the strategic planning of Department or Directorate initiatives, identifying interdependencies across functions, potential impacts on wider
Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes
Person Specification
essential Essential
Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification (NCCQ) 5 years Coding experience Previos presentation experience
Desirable
Clinical Coding Auditor Previous Neurosurgery or Cardiac surgery coding experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address Liverpool innovation Park
Eaton rd
Liverpool
L7 9NJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://alderhey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)