Clinical Coding Training and Audit Manager

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Clinical Coding Team at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust as Clinical Coding Training and Audit Manager.

Managing an established team of NHS England Approved Clinical Coding Trainers and Auditors driving a comprehensive program of Training Courses and Audit.

Working closely with the Clinical Coding Team, Clinical Teams and Senior Management.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Coding Audit and Training Manager will develop and monitor a comprehensive programme of audit of clinically coded data to ensure compliance with coding standards. A key task will be to ensure that actions plans are developed and delivered against expected outcomes.

An expert/specialist, senior level coder who has attained the Accredited Clinical Coding (ACC) qualification and who is an approved Clinical Coding Trainer, TAP and has attained Approved auditor status

The role will also encompass the development of a comprehensive training programme for all staff within the team, linked to audit outcomes to ensure that staff achieve external coding accreditation and training and capabilities.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring all audit and training is delivered within the prescribed deadlines as specified within PbR guidance. The role will also plan and develop the audit and training service to meet future demands.

To develop Clinical Coding Training Courses in order to offer MTW Courses to external candidates as an income stream

About us

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust's core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.