Clinical Coding Auditor (NHS AfC: Band 6) - Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – Merseyside
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled Clinical Coding Auditor to join our audit and training team on a full-time permanent basis. This is a hybrid role consisting of working from home and working on site.
Suitable candidates will hold the Approved Clinical Coding Auditor Qualification and will have a hardworking and flexible attitude towards professional tasks at hand.
Interview date: TBC
As Clinical Coding Auditor, your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
* Undertaking audits of clinically coded data in line with the NHS Digital’s audit methodology and code of conduct.
* Supporting the Clinical Coding Manager.
* To operate on own initiative referring more complex cases to the Clinical Coding Assistant Manager 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.
* Undertake staff audits and ad hoc specialty audits.
* Assign codes from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD10) and the Office of Populations and Censuses and Surveys (OPCS4).
* Participate in preparing audit reports for staff audits undertaken.
* Participate in Departmental meetings and present the results of relevant reviews.
* Demonstrate good presentation skills to colleagues, the multi-disciplinary team, and Clinicians.
* 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.
* Take responsibility for keeping up to date with current issues and developments within the coding department.
* Work with the Divisional Managers, Associate Managers, and Clinicians to improve and sustain accurate clinical data recording to support clinical coding to National Standards.
* Raise clinical coding issues with the Coding Manager.
* Undertake clinical coding reviews as required and agreed.
* Identify key areas impacting on HRG assignment and tariff making recommendations to the Clinical Coding Assistant Manager accordingly.
* Work with the Audit and training team to identify key areas for clinical coding review.
* Plan meetings with Senior Clinicians as and when necessary to undertake review of clinical information where queries have been raised.
* To validate complex clinical data and procedures with Clinicians in order to assure depth of coding for accurate payment.
* Analyse external audit reports and recommend to the Coding Manager and Divisions any corrective measures that need to be put in place to improve data quality and clinical coding outcomes.
* Support the Auditors & Clinical Coding Assistant Manager in obtaining clarification on new interventional procedures and clinical practice within the divisional specialties to ensure correct understanding for code assignment and support cascading this information.
* To liaise with clinicians and their support staff concerning interpretation of case notes documentation affecting coding.
* To prioritise Junior Clinical Coders workload and reallocate work to cover sickness or leave at short notice.
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