Clinical Coding Specialist
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Southport, PR8 6PNView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
30 November 2026
40 days leftJob description
CLINICAL CODING SPECIALIST Are you an experienced ACC Clinical Coder looking for an exciting development and progression opportunity? Find out more be...
To work closely with the Clinical Coding Delivery Team Manager to support the delivery of and ongoing improvement to clinical documentation and accurate clinically coded data. To advise on data recording practises to ensure clinical coding accurately reflects inpatient care delivered.Undertake clinical coding validationhighlighting training and data quality issues to the Clinical Coding Trainer and Clinical Coding Auditor.
Act as a support to the Clinical Coding Delivery Team Manager to facilitate contact with designated Divisions or specialties and communicate complex coding issues to medical and non-medical staff on coding queries and National coding standards to ensure accuracy and consistency of information.
To analyse and abstract diagnostic and procedural information from patient records across all specialties.
To translate diagnostic and procedural information using ICD-10 and OPCS and enter coding onto the Trusts PAS via encoding softwarein an accurate and timely manner adhering to the Trust's deadlines.
Act as a mentor and assist in the education of less experienced clinical coders. Ensure accuracy and completeness of the clinical coding to national clinical coding requirements. To work with clinicians on a regular basis to validate clinically coded data.
- To operate on own initiative referring more complex cases to the Clinical Coding Delivery Team Manager for advice.
- To act in the capacity of coding expert and provides advice to junior team members on coding queries ensuring adherence to national clinical coding guidelines.
- Responsible for the accurate entry of clinical coding against inpatient activity for the Specialty/Division.
- Use a variety of knowledge resources to translate procedures where the coding process does not fully apply.
- Demonstrate good presentation skills to colleagues, the multi-disciplinary team and clinicians.
- Assist the Clinical Coding Delivery Team Manager to coordinate engagement between Clinical Coders, Clinicians and Management for Divisions.
- 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.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
o Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
o Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
o National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Other
Essential: - Flexible approach to work; - Ability to travel across the various sites of the Trust
Knowledge, Experience and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of National Tariff Payment System
- Knowledge of inpatient and outpatient coding process
- Knowledge of data protection legislation, Caldicott and other relevant guidance
- Knowledge of SNOMED CT
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Ability to exercise initiative and produce required results
- Self-reliant and able to deal with a high degree of ambiguity
- Planning, organising workload to meet deadlines
- Effective interpersonal skills to liaise with consultants, clinical and administration staff on issues of clinical coding and the associated administrative process
- Excellent IT skills including use of Microsoft applications
- Excellent concentration skills with attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent medical terminology, anatomy and physiology knowledge
- Experience of working with clinicians and/or senior staff
- Experience of undertaking presentations relating to clinical coding
- Broad experience of clinical coding a minimum of 5 specialties
Desirable: - Experience of the HRG Grouper; - Experience of clinical coding audits
Qualifications
Essential: - Excellent standard of education; - Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC)
Desirable: - Degree level education or equivalent experience
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First seen
16 October 2026
Last checked
19 October 2026
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