Job summary
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Coding Service Manager to lead our highly experienced and friendly Clinical Coding team at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will be a highly experienced manager within a clinical coding environment with proven experience in service improvement, service delivery and quality management. The post holder will have excellent communication skills with a strong ability to engage and develop strong and sustainable relationships within the team and wider with clinical and corporate colleagues, both within the Trust and across the wider healthcare system.
The Trust has a reputation for consistently achieving targets and for high quality clinical coded data, which is achieved by providing excellent standards of training, mentoring and support for all team members.
If you are looking for the next step up in Clinical Coding and would like to lead on shaping the future service, we would be very interested in hearing from you!
Main duties of the job
Clinically coded data is fundamental in helping the Trust deliver against its overall goal of becoming the 'safest Trust in England, outstanding in all that we do'. The income of the Trust is reliant on accurate and timely coded data. This information is also used for resource management, clinical research, clinical audit, and healthcare contracting, and service provision both locally and nationally.
The successful candidate will:
- Act as the corporate professional lead for clinical coding.
- Responsible for developing medium term clinical coding strategy, taking account of service changes i.e. implementation of an Electronic Patient Record.
- Developing and leading the clinical coding function across the Trust.
- Developing and implementing best practice to ensure timely and the highest quality coded data across the Trust to support a whole host of agendas include Trust income and mortality.
- Act as a project lead specialist for any clinical coding projects or expert for any projects with a clinical coding element.
- Responsible for the delivery of key clinical coding key performance indicators and audit requirements.
About us
DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.
It is our goal to give those who join Team DBTH the tools and opportunities to grow their career, it's our pledge to help you Develop, Belong and Thrive, Here.
As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.
We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:o Extensive range of learning opportunitieso NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditionso Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read both documents carefully.
Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read both documents carefully.
Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience within a Clinical Coding environment
- oSignificant experience working at a management level, including team management
- oUnderstanding and experience of managing data quality in Clinical Coding
- oExcellent working knowledge of Trust Patient Administration Systems and other key operational patient systems and patient flow.
- oKnowledge of the role and function of
- oIn-depth and specialist knowledge of generating Trust income from Clinical Coding and Healthcare Resource Groups
- oDemonstrable experience in proposing and successfully introducing change management to improve the delivery of a service
Desirable
- oSuccessful completion of the Prince Foundation Project Management Course
Qualifications
Essential
- oAccredited Clinical Coder status
- o Management qualification or equivalent qualification or relevant experience'
- oAdvanced skills in using Windows based packages and internet
- oAdvanced numeracy skills and basic statistical techniques
Desirable
- oTrain the Trainer Connecting for Health Accredited status
- oAdvanced Auditor Connecting for Health status
Interpersonal
Essential
- oConfident in communicating with people at all levels including senior managers and clinicians
- oConfident to fully participate and lead meetings and deliver training including presentations
Organisational
Essential
- oComplex problem solving skills
- oExcellent proven ability in planning and organisational ability on an individual and total service basis
- oProven track record in working to challenging ongoing timescales and ability to work well under ongoing pressure
- oExperience in successfully managing a project
- oAbility to develop and plan audit programmes, conduct complex internal coding audits
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience within a Clinical Coding environment
- oSignificant experience working at a management level, including team management
- oUnderstanding and experience of managing data quality in Clinical Coding
- oExcellent working knowledge of Trust Patient Administration Systems and other key operational patient systems and patient flow.
- oKnowledge of the role and function of
- oIn-depth and specialist knowledge of generating Trust income from Clinical Coding and Healthcare Resource Groups
- oDemonstrable experience in proposing and successfully introducing change management to improve the delivery of a service
Desirable
- oSuccessful completion of the Prince Foundation Project Management Course
Qualifications
Essential
- oAccredited Clinical Coder status
- o Management qualification or equivalent qualification or relevant experience'
- oAdvanced skills in using Windows based packages and internet
- oAdvanced numeracy skills and basic statistical techniques
Desirable
- oTrain the Trainer Connecting for Health Accredited status
- oAdvanced Auditor Connecting for Health status
Interpersonal
Essential
- oConfident in communicating with people at all levels including senior managers and clinicians
- oConfident to fully participate and lead meetings and deliver training including presentations
Organisational
Essential
- oComplex problem solving skills
- oExcellent proven ability in planning and organisational ability on an individual and total service basis
- oProven track record in working to challenging ongoing timescales and ability to work well under ongoing pressure
- oExperience in successfully managing a project
- oAbility to develop and plan audit programmes, conduct complex internal coding audits
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
