Senior Clinical Coder £2,000 Incentive | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Clinical Coder £2,000 Incentive | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
£34581
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Mile End, Colchester
- Part time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 24 Apr | Get your application in now before you're too late!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 77174269f0ec45f58a46a1624cdb01cc
Full Job Description
- To abstract and analyse complex clinical information from patient records and translate this into a coded format in line with National Standards. To have a high level of knowledge of Medical Terminology and Anatomy and Physiology.
- To enter the final encoded data onto the appropriate computer systems to meet essential Trust requirements for statutory information and payment flows.
- You will work as part of a team of experienced trained and trainee staff and the job will involve rotation between duties working on all specialties.
- Deal with enquiries from all parts of the hospital.
- Analyse complex medical information from paper documents and via other computer systems.
- Ensure that patient records are processed in the correct manner and tracked to appropriate destinations using the computer tracking system.
- Act as mentor and assist in the education of less experienced coders.
- To be aware of wider information and patient administration service systems
- To ensure that computer and paper records are passed for remedial action or processed in the correct manner.
We are seeking to recruit skilled, dedicated, committed and accomplished Accredited Clinical Coders to join our established Clinical Coding Team at the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Trust (ESNEFT).
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We are looking for candidates with clinical coding experience across all specialties in an acute setting and with desire to further their career.
The department has an established internal Clinical Coding Audit Program and offers comprehensive training for all coders with help developing existing skills and learning new ones.
You will require excellent communication skills, organisation skills and to be able to work as part of a team to deliver timely and accurate coded data to meet the Trusts deadlines.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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