Clinical Coding Liaison Officer

Job summary

Are you an experienced coder, ready to move your coding career onto the next level?

Here at UCLH we offer our coding team much more than just financial incentives which is the reason why we have a successful and thriving Clinical Coding Department that continues to go from strength to strength.

Pivotal to our success is our systematic training and development framework and investor in people approach that forms a key cornerstone of our agenda. This supportive framework enables all our coding team to benefit from:

• Fully remote working with flexible working hours and a very flexible approach.
• Being one of the leading tertiary referral trusts in the country, coder skill sets are enhanced through exposure to cutting edge procedures and highly specialist areas within Neurosurgery, T&O, Urology, General Surgery, Interventional Radiology, Cancer Services, Ophthalmology, Infectious & Tropical Diseases and more.
• Intuitive coder specialty rotation structure
• Monthly specialty training workshops for the whole coding team
• Fortnightly ring-fenced coder study time
• Monthly Audit, feedback and training cycles
• Individual development plans /Support towards Auditor, Trainer, Management status
• Monthly 1- 1 sessions and performance reviews with Team Managers

Main duties of the job

Successful applicants will provide a vital and dynamic coding role within a high performing and supportive coding team with experienced coders possessing the Accredited Clinical Coding (ACC) qualification or equivalent experience within in a wide range of specialities.

About us

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

At UCLH, we have a real 'One Team' ethos, and our values - safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.