Senior Clinical Coder

Senior Clinical Coder he closing date is 11 January 2026

We are looking to recruit a high calibre individual to be part of our predominantly agile working from home Clinical Coding Team.

An opportunity has arisen for a full time experienced Accredited Clinical Coder. The successful candidate must have extensive Clinical Coding experience, must be flexible and able to work under pressure to strict deadlines.

This role requires an organised approach to the workload and the ability to work in a very busy environment where a high degree of accuracy with attention to detail is paramount. You will also be expected to interact with clinicians and operational staff and will need to form strong working relations with staff at all levels within the organisation who are customers of The Health Informatics Service.

As part of the recruitment process alongside the interview, the candidate will be required to sit a test.

• Analyse highly complex clinical terms from EPR and other clinical source systems using judgement where details may be complex or conflicting.
• Provide consistently recorded data to well defined national standards. The Clinical Coding Department uses the ICD
  10 and OPCS classifications to record all diagnoses and procedures for inpatient and day case admissions.
• Check data quality and record necessary amendments.
• To liaise with various staff throughout the trust to facilitate timely, complete and accurate clinical source documentation for coding.
• To have a proactive and positive approach in working with consultants and clinicians to ensure that information is sufficient for requirements in providing high quality coded data.
• Support the Senior Clinical Coding team to ensure continuous improvement in the quality of clinical data used for clinical governance, commissioning, and health needs analysis.
• Provide complex specialist coding advice for financial and audit purposes.
• Manage own workload, without direct supervision, to ensure all relevant inpatient episodes are coded within the agreed deadlines to enable a complete financial assessment to be made.
• Keep up to date with any changes to clinical coding standards and attend training.
• Use Trusts clinical systems to maintain coding accuracy and facilitate completion of all coding within the timescales specified to meet the Trusts Contractual targets.

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS‑yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

• Accredited Clinical Coder (ACC) Qualification (and attendance at Coding Refresher if ACC qualification more than 3 years ago)
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in the specialist field of Clinical Coding
• GCSE English, Maths and Science or equivalent A to C
• AMSPA or equivalent in Medical Terminology
• IT literate including use of internet for research
• Commitment to continuing professional development
• Willingness to complete…