# Expert Clinical Coder > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/expert-clinical-coder/711f96f3-ebd4-4892-b8c1-9ae81b2d4aa9 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/expert-clinical-coder/711f96f3-ebd4-4892-b8c1-9ae81b2d4aa9.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Poole - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pa - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, Other, 37.5 hours per week (Hybrid) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-25T14:01:06.579Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Dorset/PooleBournemouth/University_Hospitals_Dorset_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Health_Information_Management_Service_HIMS/Health_Information_Management_Service_HIMS-v8079387 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8079387?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.uhd.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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 ## 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 ## Documents - [dbs - faqs (pdf, 102.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2417) - [expert clinical coder (pdf, 194.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10371928) - [expert clinical coder (pdf, 465.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10371927) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.