# Senior Clinical Coding Analyst - Kent and Medway ICS Only

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- **Location:** Maidstone Hospital
- **Workplace type:** hybrid
- **Profession:** Clinical coder
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent: Plus 5% R&R
- **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours, 25 hours per week (This can be a remote working role)
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-19T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-11-12T15:51:04.813Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/barming/Maidstone_Tunbridge_Wells_NHS_Trust/Business_Support_Services/Business_Support_Services-v8360327
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8360327?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.mtw.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Please note this role is currently only being advertised to staff members who are currently working within the Kent and Medway ICS

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Clinical Coding Analyst ACC Band 6 plus 5% R&R at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. This is a remote post but we also have opportunities for hybrid working.

We offer flexible working and also have an inhouse Clinical Coding Training and Audit team to support with future career development.

### Main duties of the job

The candidate should hold the National Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC), who must be able to work to the highest degree of accuracy within a busy clinical coding department.

The Coding Team plays a critical role in ensuring that the clinical care received by the patients is accurately coded on the Trust PAS, working to strict deadlines to meet National Submission deadlines.

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to ensuring the clinical coding teams deliver a quality coding service across the organisation including both acute and mental health activity by providing accurate and timely clinical coding in accordance with national standards and requirements of clinical coding.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We’ve provided all the details you need about this role in the job description and person specification. Please take a moment to review the criteria in the person specification and share specific examples in your application that demonstrate how you meet these requirements. Please also check your application for errors/omissions prior to submission.

All successful applicants will be required to complete our corporate trust induction once a start date had been agreed.

Please note: This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship. In line with the UK Immigration Rules and Home Office Sponsorship Guidance, employers may only sponsor individuals for roles that meet strict eligibility, salary, and compliance requirements. Where a role does not meet these criteria, organisations are prohibited from assigning a Certificate of Sponsorship. Applicants must therefore already hold a valid immigration status and ongoing right to work in the UK in order to be considered.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and influence a range of professionals
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise a number of competing demands
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex medical information, attention to detail
- Ability to develop good working relationships with medical staff and other hospital staff at different levels.
- To work independently and as part of a team.
- Intermediate level keyboard skills in Excel/Word

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- National Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC degree level)
- Coding Standards Course
- Clinical Coding Refresher training
- Workshops for example to include: Neoplasm, Vascular, Obstetrics, Trauma & Orthopaedic

**Desirable**

- AMSPAR Medical Terminology Certificate
- Other relevant qualification e.g. health sciences, clinical qualification.
- ECDL

### Experience/Knowledge

**Essential**

- Previous prolonged practical experience of working in a clinical coding setting using ICD10 & OPCS 4.7 in a large organisation
- Experience of using PAS and encoding software.
- Experience of delivering to deadlines
- Demonstrable and extensive knowledge of medical terminology, anatomical and physiological terms acquired through work-based experience.
- Excellent understanding of PbR & HRGs
- Understanding of the Data Protection act

**Desirable**

- Use of PAS, Medicode, Clinical Applications.
- Familiarity with use of electronic patient record (EPR)

## Documents

- [staff benefits (pdf, 63.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2762)
- [corporate job pack (pdf, 548.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2164)
- [tips when completing your application (pdf, 50.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2920)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 272.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10686842)

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