Clinical Coding Liaison Lead

Job overview

An opportunity now exists for 2 senior coders to join the Clinical Coding team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.  The coding teams across the trust work corporately in a rotation of five clinical PODS and are responsible for ensuring a responsive and accurate delivery of Trust activity to sustain trust financial flows and to support the operational and strategic management of the organisation.

You will need to exhibit excellent analytical skills, logic, and a high level of interpersonal and communication skills both verbal and written. Flexible in your approach, you must be able to work as a part of the team to tight deadlines. You must be a holder of the ACC qualification, ideally with broad experience throughout a variety of medical and surgical areas in an acute setting with at least 2 years’ experience post qualification.

If the above describes you and your skills and interests then we would welcome your application to this exciting and challenging role.

Remote coding has long been introduced and currently the teams work remotely 3 days a week and are in one of the office locations on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Note; the recruitment and retention premium (RRP) is at 10% on this banding.

Main duties of the job

• To participate with all team members in meeting strict local, national and contractual deadlines for the assignment of clinical codes using the classifications ICD-10 and OPCS-4, to ensure accurate and timely reimbursement for each patient treated within the trust.
• To enhance the accuracy and completeness of the clinical coding through improved sources of information, engaging clinicians, and the Divisions and relevant departments in particular where it impacts on high cost and complex specialised areas where additional expertise is required.
• Provide professional coding technical support to the coding teams and also SLA, Divisions and Information/ICT and Finance in these and other areas.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.