# Senior Clinical Coder

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- **Location:** East Surrey Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum plus high cost allowance
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-03T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-13T09:20:46.844Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Redhill/Surrey_Sussex_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Clinical_Coding/Clinical_Coding-v8226824
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8226824?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.surreyandsussex.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

To obtain, analyse and interpret complex clinical data of all patients denoting diagnoses, co-morbidities, medical and surgical procedures, medical status and relevant family history information; accurately assigning codes using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems – Tenth Revision (ICD-10) and The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures – Fourth Revision (OPCS-4); ensuring that coded information is accurate, complete and timely, thereby contributing to essential management information for the Trust.

This is of paramount importance to prevent the loss of income to the Trust, particularly with agendas such as Payment by Results and the Waiting List Initiatives.

Understand the impact of coded data on the business aspects of the Trust, and thus be able to provide the information and advice to all health professionals and administrative staff of the nature and complexity of clinical coding and its purposes in areas such as patient care, clinical governance, clinical audit, finance, budgeting, data quality and research.

### Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information regarding the role please read the attached job description and person specification.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### General

**Essential**

- Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
- A complete and accurate application
- Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
- Evidence of essential experience for role
- Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
- Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
- Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
- Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 157.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10536072)
- [our organisation values (pdf, 247.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2213)
- [trust statement on recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 334.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2214)

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