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Site: John Radcliffe Hospital, Town: Headington, Oxford, Salary: dependant on experience/ per annum pro rata, Closing: 27/04/2025 23:59
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training, and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards, and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues, and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement, and excellence.
Job Overview
Clinical Coder Band 4-5
Oxford University Hospital NHS Trust is investing in its Clinical Coding Department and is looking to recruit an experienced Clinical Coder to join our well-established team.
To apply you must have at least 2 years’ experience in coding using ICD 10 & OPCS classifications as well as having an excellent knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy, and physiology.
The Clinical Coding department has its own Working from Home Local Agreement which gives the candidate the opportunity to work remotely, this is available upon request dependent on certain Trust and Department criteria.
Main Duties of the Job
The Clinical Coding Team is responsible for the extraction and translation of inpatient information using the ICD-10 and OPCS-4 Coding Classifications. This information is essential for the effective management of the Trust and crucial to the National Tariff Payment System that underpins Trust income. Coded data is also important for clinical audit, governance, and research.
As part of the role, you will be expected to interact with clinicians, operational staff and have responsibility for your own workload whilst maintaining accurate clinical coding quality.
Person Specification
* Work on own initiative
* Attention to detail and accuracy
* Willingness to learn new skills
* Good interpersonal/team skills
* Ability to relate appropriately to various professional groups within the Trust including clinicians, medical, management, and admin staff
* Ability to liaise appropriately with patients when required.
* Knowledge of Electronic Patient Record Systems (EPR)
* Knowledge of Hospital Intranet
* Customer focused outlook
* Ability to translate information from a variety of sources using clinical coding rules into ICD10 diagnoses codes and OPCS 4.10 procedure codes
* GCSE ‘C’ grade or equivalent in English and Maths
* Interest to develop knowledge of medical terminology
* NCCQ National Clinical Coding Qualification
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Next Steps: Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification, and that your supporting statement reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.
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