Job overview
At University Hospitals Dorset, we are building a modern Clinical Coding service that recognises both formal accreditation and demonstrable expertise. We are committed to creating inclusive, competency-based career pathways that value experience, capability, and professional judgement.
This role offers an opportunity to work across a wide range of specialties, including real-time coding within clinical environments such as wards, theatres and multidisciplinary team meetings.
Main duties of the job
- Deliver high-quality, accurate, and timely coding across all specialties
- Work within clinical environments (wards, theatres, MDTs) to support real-time data capture
- Code complex, long-stay, high risk and mortality cases
- Support audit, data quality improvement, and validation activity
- Act as a mentor and role model for developing coders
- Sustain an accuracy score of ≥95% across all specialities
- Demonstrate an extensive expert-level of clinical coding experience across the full range of specialities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details relating to this job role.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of three years post-ACC clinical coding experience
- Sustained coding audit accuracy of ≥95% across all specialities
- Extensive expert clinical coding experience across the full range of trust specilaitiess
- Experience of direct clinical engagement
- Experience of leading or contributing to financial and quality assurance activity
Desirable
- Experience of contributing to mortality coding assurance or review processes
- Experience contributing to local coding policy development or service improvement initiatives
- Experience of providing structured training, mentoring, coaching or specialist support
- Experience of direct clinical engagement at senior level eg consultant, surgeon
Qualifications
Essential
- NCCQ Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC status)
Personal attributes
Essential
- Proactive, solutions-focused approach to identifying and addressing coding documentation or data quality
- Commitment to continuous professional development, reflective practice and maintaining expert level competence
- Strong professional integrity, discretion and respect for confidentiality
Desirable
- Demonstrate interest in service improvement innovation, or digital transformation within a clinical coding or data quality improvement
- Willingness to support the development of others through coaching, mentoring or specialist education delivery
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential
- Ability to assign accurate codes using ICD-10 and OPCS 4 inline with NCCS
- Ability to validate coded date for completeness and accuracy
- Competent use of clinical record systems (e.g., EPR, PAS, electronic document management systems) to review records and update coding or administrative data
- Strong workload prioritisation, decision making and independent professional judgement
- Ability to design and deliver specialist clinical coding training and mentoring for coding staff
Desirable
- Experience supporting or evaluating automation, digital, or AI assisted clinical coding tools
- Familiarity with benchmarking or assurance platforms eg HED
- Experience contributing to workforce competency frameworks or structured development pathways
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This advert is for Expert Clinical Coder with University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust in Poole, South West, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Administrative and IT role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 pa. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 09 Jul 2026.
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