Clinical Coder

Would you like to join our Clinical Coding team as a Clinical Coder? Read on to learn more about this rewarding role and submit your application.

The Clinical Coding service is a part of the Digital Division of the University Hospitals of Leicester and is responsible for extracting and codifying complex clinical information that describes a patient's diagnostic and procedural healthcare status within an episode of care in a timely manner.

The ability of UHL to accurately record and codify its clinical activity is fundamental to understanding the quality of its clinical services. Our coded data is used by all parts of the Trusts business to deliver trusted and high-quality services to patients.

Accredited Clinical Coders are a core component of the Clinical Coding service and have a crucial supporting role in the overall management of the Trust as their output directly influences income through the NHS Payment Scheme.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
• 21 day NHSD Clinical Coding Standards Course
  
  

Experience

Essential

• Experienced in the use of ICD 10 and OPCS
• Minimum 18 months NHS experience using ICD10 & OPCS
  
  

Previous applicants should not apply.

Main duties of the job

Extraction of complex clinical information from the health record on discharge of the patient and translation of medical terminology using ICD10 and OPCS4 into a form that can be tabulated, aggregated and sorted for statistical analysis, applying national and international rules and conventions to agreed standards. Training and workshops will be provided by our team of Trainers. All coders will attend workshops on a regular basis to enable them keep up to date with any changes within clinical coding and support learning skills and development

About Us

We are one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, incorporating the General, Glenfield and Royal Infirmary Hospitals. We have our very own Children's Hospital and run one of the country's leading Heart Centres. The UHL team is made up of more than 17,000 staff providing a range of services primarily for the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We work with partners at the University of Leicester and De Montfort University providing world-class teaching to nurture and develop the next generation of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, many of whom go on to spend their working lives with us.

Our vision is to be leading in healthcare and trusted in communities. We now have a vision for UHL that is captured in a single sentence and that we can all get behind.

The values we hold as we work towards our vision are vital:

We are compassionate

We are proud

We are inclusive

And we are one team

Our patients are at the heart of all we do and we believe that our Trust Values are not just about the treatments and services we provide, but about giving our patients the best possible experience.

Our service is led by an open, transparent and dedicated leadership team who are striving to create a productive and supportive work environment which delivers a high quality codified output to accurately describe our patient's healthcare status and needs.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ajo Jose Job title: Clinical Coding Site Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01162587626

Lorna Monteiro

[email protected]

Clinical Coding Site Lead

01162584270/07814075754