Clinical Coding Business Analyst

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Clinical Coding Business Analyst

The closing date is 01 March 2026

We're on the lookout for a talented Clinical Coder who's ready to make an impact. If you thrive on precision, enjoy the challenge of interpreting clinical information, and take pride in producing accurate, high-quality coding, we'd love to meet you.

In this role, you'll become a vital part of our coding service, ensuring that activity across the Trust is captured clearly, consistently, and on time. Your day-to-day work will help shape our business intelligence, support robust audit processes, and contribute to the insight that drives better decision-making. If you're someone who brings expertise, enthusiasm, and a commitment to excellence, this is your opportunity to be part of something genuinely meaningful.

You will be expected to promote continuous improvement in data quality by keeping abreast of development and innovations in the medical, surgical, and coding disciplines. This role forms a key member of the data quality team, which aims to provide credible, accurate, complete, and timely data for the Trust.

To review deceased patients and maintain higher SHMI performance for Bedfordshire Hospitals;

To be proficient in the Trust's many IT systems, including iPM, Viper, Medicode, ICE, Clinical Correspondence, Medi Viewer/Evolve (for ERDMS) and the Clinical Income Dashboard system;

To review, on an on-going basis, clinical coding standards adopted within the Trust and to ensure by personal monitoring and peer review that these standards are being achieved by all coding staff;

To liaise with other disciplines as required regarding data clarification, in order to support data quality;

To have a comprehensive understanding of the Hospital Administrative systems to validate and correct errors, to ensure patient information is recorded accurately to support Information, Clinical Governance and Data Quality standards;

To investigate, and correct complex clinical coding data rejected or queried by recipient information systems and advise the Data Standards Manager of such problems that could impact on Trust Performance.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff.

As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

To abstract and analyse complex information in the patients case notes or other source of documents and translate the medical terminology into clinical codes to the provisions of ICD-10 and OPCS-4 and Clinical Coding Manual, and to input the coded information on to the organizations clinical information system.

To maintain national coding standards and adhere to national and international conventions to assign uniform codes, which represent a complete picture of the patients hospital stay.

In accordance with expertise and knowledge gained through all training/educational processes, code to profession standards and conventions, and to ensure the high quality clinical coded data are provided with agreed time scales. This will require focus, motivational negotiation, and judgement.

To be able to work under pressure maintaining accuracy especially around monthly closedown and the refresh period.

To check the accuracy of admissions, transfer and discharge details in the patients medical record and to identify errors on the clinical information system.

To answer Clinical Commissioning Group challenges in code assignment in a timely manner.

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