location_onHereford, UK
watch_later Posted: Nov 23, 2024
Skills Required
Nice To Have skills
Job Description
Job Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Clinical Coding Department at Wye Valley Trust for a highly motivated individual to join the team as a Clinical Coding Team Leader, Band 6.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced B5 to gain useful experience in a junior management role whilst still retaining their own clinical coding work load. there will also be the opportunity to expand their direction if they have an interest in either Clinical coding Auditing or Training.
The role will involve responsibilities for mentoring and training of brand new coders, day to day supervision of the coding Team alongside another Team Leader., and ensuring all monthly mandated coding deadlines are met. You will also be supporting the Clinical Coding Manager to ensuring effective service delivery for coding.
This is a vacancy with a difference as we are looking for an applicant who will enjoy the opportunity and challenge to progress with their Clinical Coding career and develop their skills, either managerially or thorough audit or training.Support will be provided to enable this to be achieved, with both financial and allocated study time,.
The applicant will enhance their own learning with the continuous involvement of validation and data analysis, and will be expected to maintain their own high level of coding with regard to numbers coded and expected % accuracy.
Main duties of the job
The main area of responsibility is for the supervision of the Clinical Coding Team, ensuring all agreed national and local timescales are met.
Provide own high quality and timely coded data.
Provide training and mentorship to the clinical coding team members, where checking, validating and informal auditing may be necessary
About Us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Date posted
25 October 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year pa pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
Reference number
229-COR-6742447
Job locations
County Hospital
Union Walk
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Job Description
Job responsibilities
For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Responsibilities
Job description Job responsibilities
For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Education & Qualifications Essential
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
County Hospital
Union Walk
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Clinical Coding Department at Wye Valley Trust for a highly motivated individual to join the team as a Clinical Coding Team Leader, Band 6.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced B5 to gain useful experience in a junior management role whilst still retaining their own clinical coding work load. there will also be the opportunity to expand their direction if they have an interest in either Clinical coding Auditing or Training.
The role will involve responsibilities for mentoring and training of brand new coders, day to day supervision of the coding Team alongside another Team Leader., and ensuring all monthly mandated coding deadlines are met. You will also be supporting the Clinical Coding Manager to ensuring effective service delivery for coding.
This is a vacancy with a difference as we are looking for an applicant who will enjoy the opportunity and challenge to progress with their Clinical Coding career and develop their skills, either managerially or thorough audit or training.Support will be provided to enable this to be achieved, with both financial and allocated study time,.
The applicant will enhance their own learning with the continuous involvement of validation and data analysis, and will be expected to maintain their own high level of coding with regard to numbers coded and expected % accuracy.
Main duties of the job
The main area of responsibility is for the supervision of the Clinical Coding Team, ensuring all agreed national and local timescales are met.
Provide own high quality and timely coded data.
Provide training and mentorship to the clinical coding team members, where checking, validating and informal auditing may be necessary
About Us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Date posted
25 October 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year pa pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
Reference number
229-COR-6742447
Job locations
County Hospital
Union Walk
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Job Description
Job responsibilities
For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Responsibilities
Job description Job responsibilities
For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Education & Qualifications Essential
- Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC) - equivalent to degree level
- Post grad management qualification or relevant recent managerial/supervisory experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent knowledge /skills and experience as a Clinical Coder
- Evidence of continued professional development and attendance of formal clinical coding specialty workshops
- Well -developed planning and organisational skills
- Extensive knowledge and use of practical clinical coding using ICD and OPCS classifications
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under constant pressure
- Experience in training and mentoring clinical coders to a high level
- Experience of working with hospital based computer systems
- Experience of conducting clinical coding audits
- Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC) - equivalent to degree level
- Post grad management qualification or relevant recent managerial/supervisory experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent knowledge /skills and experience as a Clinical Coder
- Evidence of continued professional development and attendance of formal clinical coding specialty workshops
- Well -developed planning and organisational skills
- Extensive knowledge and use of practical clinical coding using ICD and OPCS classifications
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under constant pressure
- Experience in training and mentoring clinical coders to a high level
- Experience of working with hospital based computer systems
- Experience of conducting clinical coding audits
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
County Hospital
Union Walk
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
