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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Clinical Coding Team Leader
Closed for applications on: 8-Jul-2024 10:30
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 8-Jul-2024 10:30
Key details
Location
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Address
- Rake Lane
- Town
- North Shields
- Postcode
- NE29 8NH
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Clinical Coding Team Leader
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated person to support the Trust’s Clinical Coding Service and Deputy Service Managers in managing the Trust’s Clinical Coders and ensuring continuity of the Clinical Coding service.
You will be responsible for line managing a team of Clinical Coders and supporting them in their respective roles as we continue our Digital journey, and progress with both the COVID-19 recovery plan and the transition to the Electronic Patient Record.
You must be an experienced Clinical Coder and be able to demonstrate extensive experience of coding across all specialties. You will have specialist knowledge of the ICD-10 and OPCS-4 classifications and be able to deal with complex coding queries, liaising with clinical staff, analysis and reporting staff and senior management on a regular basis.
We are looking for a pro-active multitasker with excellent communication skills to assist in developing, maintaining, and managing the team in order to ensure the quality and timeliness of Clinical Coding across the Trust
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Directly manage a team of clinical coding staff, reviewing team’s accuracy and coding activity statistics. To act as a professional mentor to all coding staff.
Ensure the provision of accurate, complete and timely clinical information.
Managing and allocating work to team members and to maintain office administration services.
Providing expert coding advice, communicating complex coding rules to clinical coding staff and all healthcare professionals.
Promoting Clinical Coding and the importance of good quality data throughout the Trust presenting regularly at Business Unit Directorate meetings.
Working closely with Business Units and act as key contact for any clinical coding related issues.
Coding of the more complex case-load within the department extracting complex and highly confidential information from case notes and translating it accurately into diagnostic and intervention/procedure codes, across all specialties in accordance with current coding classifications; and entering the patient data on to the Trust’s PAS system.
Ensuring clinical coders are effective in their roles and achieve the necessary quality standards to support Trust income and information governance requirements.
Planning and ensuring requirements for accuracy, completeness and timeliness are met to support management and clinical needs.
Maintain and develop professional and personal skills.
Working for our organisation
We manage two major locality hospitals at North Tyneside and Wansbeck plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Supporting the Trust’s Clinical Coding Service Manager in managing the Trust’s clinical coders to ensure the provision of accurate, complete and timely clinical information.
Managing and allocating work to team members and to maintain office
administration services.
Providing expert coding advice, communicating complex coding rules to clinical coding staff and all healthcare professionals.
Promoting Clinical Coding and the importance of good quality data throughout the Trust presenting regularly at Business Unit Directorate meetings.
Working closely with Business Units and act as key contact for any clinical coding related issues.
Coding of the more complex case-load within the department extracting complex and highly confidential information from case notes and translating it accurately into diagnostic and intervention/procedure codes, across all specialties in accordance with current coding classifications; and entering the patient data on to the Trust’s PAS system.
Ensuring the department is adequately managed, trained and audited in line with national standards and able to meet the long-term objectives of the Trust.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means
demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and
empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Accredited Clinical Coding (ACC) Qualification or equivalent experience, (evidenced by achievement of required standards in individual coder audits).
Desirable criteria
- Approved Clinical Coding Trainer
- Approved Clinical Coding Auditor
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Roz McAuley
- Job title
- Clinical Coding Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07907 938326
- Additional information
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