Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
About
Serving a population of over 618,000, with a workforce of around 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff, Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the UKs largest Trusts.
The Trust provides a wide range of healthcare services at 5 hospitals and 16 community sites.
As a Trust, our vision is to provide 5 Star Patient Care. We strongly believe that the care provided should be consistently high quality, compassionate, and provide the best possible experience for our patients and their families.
Our Values
Underpinning our vision are the norms, rituals and expected behaviours within the Trust. Following extensive engagement with staff across the Trust, our Trust values were developed and embedded into the organisation. They are the essence of what Team MWL stands for:
* KIND
* OPEN
* INCLUSIVE
Key details
Location: Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Address: Town Lane, Southport, PR8 6PN
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Main area: Clinical Coding
Job Overview
CLINICAL CODING SPECIALIST/MENTOR
Are you an experienced ACC Clinical Coder looking for an exciting development and progression opportunity? Find out more below!
We are looking to recruit highly motivated and enthusiastic specialist Clinical Coders to join our Trust; Your role will have responsibilities to ensure all coding is completed timely and accurately for SUS deadlines and support Payment by Results with the assistance of all colleagues.
Key Duties
* To operate on own initiative referring more complex cases to the Clinical Coding Divisional Leads for advice.
* To act in the capacity of coding expert and provide advice to junior team members on coding queries ensuring adherence to national clinical guidelines.
* Responsible for undertaking the appraisal process for Senior Clinical Coding staff in line with Trust policy.
* Assign codes from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD10) and the Office of Populations and Censuses and Surveys (OPCS4).
* Responsible for the accurate entry of clinical coding against inpatient activity for the specialty/division.
* Use a variety of knowledge resources to translate procedures where the coding process does not fully apply.
* Responsible for summary reports for coding reviews undertaken.
* Participate in Departmental meetings and present the results of relevant reviews.
* Demonstrate good presentation skills to colleagues, the multi-disciplinary team and Clinicians.
* Assist the Clinical Coding Divisional Leads to coordinate engagement between Coders, Clinicians and Divisional Managers.
* Responsible for planning own workload to ensure that the objectives of the whole team are achieved.
* Maintain a professional standard of behaviour with all Trust staff.
Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of peoples race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under-represented groups.
Additional Information
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE. Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon. #J-18808-Ljbffr