Senior Clinical Coder

An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and motivated Senior Clinical Coders to join our highly experienced and friendly Clinical Coding team at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust in Cornwall. You will have the opportunity to engage with clinicians, validate clinical coding and become the lead coder for designated specialties.

Due to the imminent implementation of our Electronic Patient Record, we are able to offer remote or hybrid working to the successful candidate. Due to a recent retirement, we now have four full time vacancies available.

As a department we offer clinical coders a supportive, comprehensive training and development structure through strong leadership, an in-house training programme delivered through a Terminology and Classifications Delivery Service Approved Clinical Coding Trainer. Continued professional development for all clinical coders, developing existing skills and learning new ones is important to us. We organise regular clinically led education sessions relating to multiple areas of clinical coding.

Our team also has a group of Mental Health First Aiders to support staff wellbeing.

As an Accredited Senior Clinical Coder, you will need to be able to demonstrate an extensive understanding of both ICD-10 and OPCS 4 classifications, complex coding rules and the application of national clinical coding standards.

You will have an adaptable and organised approach to work, supporting the provision of accurate and high quality clinical coding for admitted patient activity.

The Clinical Coding Team is responsible for the extraction and translation of documented clinical information pertaining to inpatient admissions into diagnosis (ICD-10) and procedural (OPCS
4) clinical codes. Clinical coded data is crucial to the Trust for many key functions such as business planning, reporting, mortality indicators and underpins the income received through the National Tariff Payment Scheme.

The post holder will play a key part in ensuring clinical documentation is fit for coding purposes, data quality is accurate and specialties are engaged with our service requirements.

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. It serves a population of around 470,000 people, a figure that can increase significantly with visitors during the busiest times of the year. We employ approximately 6,700 staff and have a budget of approximately £740 million.

RCHT is responsible for the provision of services at three main sites with approximately 780 inpatient beds:

Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro

St Michael's Hospital in Hayle

We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School.

Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we are continually developing our clinical services as well as our facilities, and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally. Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation.

The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site is the base for medical and nursing as well as ongoing education for health professions in clinical and non-clinical roles. This plays a vital part in attracting and retaining highly skilled teams of doctors, nurses and other health professionals who support the care of well over half a million people each year.

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• Identity Checks
• Professional registration and qualification checks
• Employment history and reference checks
• Occupational Health clearance
• Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check
• Right to work in the UK

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