Accredited Clinical Coder (ACC)
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JLView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
11 October 2026
8 days leftJob description
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Accredited Clinical Coder to join our Clinical Coding Department. This is an exciting opportunity to contr...
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Qualifications
Essential: - Qualified to Degree level (or significant proven clinical coding qualification).; - Accredited clinical coding qualification.
Desirable: - ECDL.; - AMSPAR.; - Medical terminology qualification.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Attendance at refresher and specialty workshops.
- Ability to code a minimum of 6 specialty areas.
- Deliver training to a variety of audiences, including clinical coding and medical staff.
- Ability to support trainee clinical-coding staff.
- Extensive experience of PAS/hospital systems.
- National clinical coding standards and practices.
- National & local performance/quality standards.
- Anatomy and physiology.
- ICD10, OPCS4 and HRG4.
- Information Governance Toolkit standards.
Desirable: - Previous supervisory experience.; - PAS experience.
Skills
Essential
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Ability to communicate at all levels.
- Report writing skills.
- Excellent IT skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Excellent numeracy and literacy skills.
Personal skills
Essential
- Highly organised, with a structured and logical approach to planning and prioritising workload.
- Ability to develop collaborative working relationships across professional and cultural boundaries.
- Ability to ensure behaviour reflects values of the organisation.
- Ability to work with sensitivity/tact, including a commitment to confidentiality.
- Resilient and able to work in a pressurised environment.
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
25 September 2026
Last checked
29 September 2026
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