# Trainee Clinical Coder

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
- **Location:** Trust Headquarters, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital; The Princess Royal Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Clinical coder
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum/pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (no remote working whilst training)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-05T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-21T12:21:08.279Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Shropshire/Shrewsbury/The_Shrewsbury_Telford_Hospital_NHS_Trust/Trainee_Clinical_Coder/Trainee_Clinical_Coder-v8240089
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8240089?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sath.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We have exciting opportunities for Trainee Clinical Coders to support the Trust in providing reliable and accurate clinically coded data for all inpatient and outpatient activity.

You must be educated to A level standard or equivalent relevant passes. It is desirable that the successful applicant will have previous NHS experience and a basic knowledge of anatomy and physiology.

Full training and support will be provided.

### Main duties of the job

- To extract relevant information from case notes/source documents to enable coding of clinical activity.
- To critically analyse the data from all available sources relevant to the episode of care and investigate and interpret the information to determine the appropriate coding translation, using ICD10 (diagnostic codes) and OPCS4 (procedure codes), into a form that can be tabulated, aggregated and sorted for statistical analysis applying national and international rules and conventions to agreed standards.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Educated to A Level standard or equivalent relevant passes.
- ECDL or equivalent qualification in the use of IT

### Knowledge and experience

**Essential**

- Knowledge of anatomy & physiology
- Experience of working in a NHS hospital and/or office environment

**Desirable**

- Experience in NHS hospital PAS system
- Understanding of medical terminology
- Previous clinical coding experience

## Documents

- [job pack (pdf, 626.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10630277)

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