Band 5 - Senior Clinical Coder, Clinical Coding Department

Ensuring accurate, timely, complete, and consistent clinical coding is carried out within strict timescales, using ICD-10 and OPCS-4 classifications, and adhering to the national coding standards and local clinical coding policies of the Trust. Collect, collate, and code clinical information, highly complex in nature, covering a wide range of specialities. This may involve coding highly sensitive and emotionally distressing patient medical records. Maintaining own productivity by ensuring high quality work is done by required timescales.

Liaise with their line manager where necessary to confirm appropriate diagnosis and procedure codes where national guidance is unclear. Regularly liaise with and update the managers and senior colleagues regarding deficiencies and ambiguity in clinical documentation to facilitate discussions with the clinical teams and other departments to improve the clinical documentation provided for coding purposes. Raise data quality issues (e.g., inaccurate admission and discharge dates) to the Coding Operations Lead and the Coding Team Lead for resolutionattend and participate in team meetings to ensure knowledge and learning points are received and communicated.