# Deputy Clinical Coding Manager

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Liverpool
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16T08:31:01.116Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Liverpool/Alder_Hey_Childrens_NHS_Foundation_Trust/digital/digital-v8159733
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8159733?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.alderhey.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

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- ·       ensure the timely and accurate delivery of the clinical coding function within the Trust to support commissioning and data submission processes by ensuring the Trust’s coding activity deadlines are routinely met and that staff within the department achieve the highest possible standards.
- ·       Responsibility for innovation in delivery of new coding methodologies and approaches, and in mitigating to a more automated approach.
- ·       Work with senior clinicians and senior managers across the Trust, analysing complex coding data to answer queries on clinical coding, and to ensure that clinical coding is accurate to support Trust income and all other business and clinical purposes for which the data is used.
- Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with consultants and their clinical teams to ensure quality and depth of clinical coding is achieved. In order to achieve this, the post holder is required to communicate sometimes highly complex coding rules to various medical, clinical and administrative staff.

### Main duties of the job

- Manage, plan and organise the assignment of coding workloads to ensure, as far as possible, an even distribution of complexity and volume, ensuring high standards of clinical coding completeness and accuracy within agreed local and national contractual deadlines.
- ·       Responsible for daily first line management of the Clinical Coding staff, including attendance management, disciplinary and grievance procedures, annual leave, appraisal and performance management.
- Promote coding awareness and take part in Trust-wide clinical coding education by liaising with clinicians to validate coded information, attend clinical team meetings and deliver presentations to clinical and non-clinical staff.
- Lead projects related to Clinical Coding improvement work, with the intent to improve accuracy and completeness of clinical coding through improved sources of information, engaging Clinicians, directorate Managers and other relevant departments and teams, in the process. Produce regular reports for the Clinical Coding Manager.
- Responsibility for innovation in delivery of new coding methodologies and approaches, and in mitigating to a more automated approach.
- Work with senior clinicians and senior managers across the Trust, analysing complex coding data to answer queries on clinical coding, and to ensure that clinical coding is accurate to support Trust income . ·

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Analyse complex clinical operations, organisational structures, and care processes to facilitate decision making regarding clinical transformation.

- To be able to analyse     interpret and use analytical skills in situations that are highly complex and multifunctional and use data to aid decision making and overcome barriers.
- In depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports including financial returns.
- To create high level presentations and reports to a variety of meetings both internal and external.
- Contribute to the strategic planning of Department or Directorate initiatives, identifying interdependencies across functions, potential impacts on wider

Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes

## Person Specification

### essential

**Essential**

- Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification (NCCQ)
- 5 years Coding experience
- Previos presentation experience

**Desirable**

- Clinical Coding Auditor
- Previous Neurosurgery or Cardiac surgery coding experience

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 536.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10460366)

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