Clinical Coding Delivery Manager in Knowsley

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Main area Clinical Coding Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent: Fully remote working available Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 409-7796084-C

Site Whiston Hospital Town Prescot Salary £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 24/11/2026 23:59

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Job overview

CLINICAL CODING DELIVERY MANAGER

Are you an experienced ACC Clinical Coderwith experience of coding across a wide range of specialties for an acute NHS Trust and are lookingfor an exciting development and progression opportunity? Find out more below!

As a result of investment and restructure within the service, we are looking to recruit highly motivated and enthusiastic B6 Clinical Coding Delivery Manager to join our Trust.

Your role will include responsibilities for the day-to-day management of Clinical Coding staff to ensure all coding is completed timely and accurately for SUS deadlines and support Payment by Results with the assistance of all colleagues. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring provision of an optimum clinical coding service across Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

In addition, the post holder will be responsible for management of any coding queriesand, together with the Management team, they willbe proactive in liaising withclinicians and other Trust staff to review and discuss coding.

Applicants will be expected to work across any of the locations under MWL.

Previous applicants need not apply

Hybrid and flexible working available.

Interview date: TBC

This role attracts an R&R payment.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will provide operational delivery management support, both generally and for specific time-limited projects to the Clinical Coding Manager. The Clinical Coding Delivery Team Manager will have day-to-day responsibility for the management of clinical coding staff, providing leadership and guidance to ensure that patient activity data is fully and accurately coded within mandated timescales, whilst adhering to national and local standards.

Working for our organisation

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.

Our Services:

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.

Community Services

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.

Specialist Regional Services

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.

Achievements

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

KEY DUTIES

• To be responsible for the day-to-day management of the operational delivery section of the clinical coding team and focusing on maintaining the department’s operational effectiveness
  and a high standard of work is always maintained.
• Responsible for the day-to-day processes needed to support the operational delivery of the clinical coding service, such as, but not limited to, the management of Teams channels and
  review of rotas, etc.
• Contributes, as a member of the Clinical Coding Department, to extract and analyse highly complex/sensitive patient data from all patient clinical records and to identify and select the
  appropriate diagnosis/procedure in line with current National guidelines. Judgement would need to be applied with regards to the translation of complex cases whilst ensuring accuracy.
• Responsible for the management of all clinical coding queries.
• Responsible for planning own workload and that of the clinical coding team to ensure that the objectives of the whole team are achieved.
• Take responsibility for keeping up to date with current issues and developments within the coding department.
• Be responsible for creating an environment conducive to the acquisition of further knowledge and skills.
• Ensure that all clinical coding is completed accurately and timely in accordance with national and contractual mandates and is delivered to the required quality and coverage. Provide regular updates to the Clinical Coding Manager on progress throughout the month.

Qualifications

• Excellent standard of education
• Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification (ACC)
• Degree level education or equivalent experience
• Managerial qualification or equivalent experience
• Has completed the Clinical Coding Standards Refresher course within the last 12 months

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Can demonstrate ‘standards exceeded’ coding accuracy levels as set out in the Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT)
• Knowledge of national benchmarking systems relevant to clinical coding, eg HED and metrics such as SHMI/HSMR
• Experience of working with clinicians and/or senior staff
• Experience of undertaking presentations relating to clinical coding
• Working in an office environment
• Excellent medical terminology and anatomy and physiology knowledge
• Able to use own initiative on a daily basis to make operational decisions
• Can organise and prioritise own and team workload
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Works under pressure to meet sometimes extremely challenging deadlines
• Knowledge of data protection legislation, Caldicott and other relevant guidance
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of clinical coding rules and conventions
• Effective inter-personal skills
• Microsoft Office skills, knowledge of EPR system
• Knowledge of NHS classifications, ie inpatients, day cases, etc
• Knowledge of Payment by Results

Other

• Excellent concentration skills, with attention to detail
• Flexible approach to work
• Use of PC/VDU for substantial proportion of the working day
• Ability to travel across the various sites of the Trust

Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.

Given sometimes we receive a high volume of applications to work for us, please be aware, that we may close a vacancy earlier than stated should a sufficient number of applications be received from which a shortlist can be confirmed. Therefore, you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Disability Confident Leader, we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

If you are having difficulty completing an online application, or require any disability reasonable adjustments, to the application process, please contact Recruitment@merseywestlancs.nhs.uk

We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager. No equality information is shared at any time during the recruitment process with the recruiting manager or other people involved in the decision-making process.

The equality monitoring information you provide is used in the following situations: to review our recruitment practices; where a job is limited to a specific person to verify their eligibility to apply; and to offer disability reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.

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eVisa Update

For successful candidates on selected work and study visa routes, who have completed and paid for their applications will no longer receive a visa vignette in passport as evidence of their permission to enter the UK.

Instead, you will be issued with an eVisa only, which is accessed by creating a UKVI account.

Before travelling to the UK, we advise applicants to:

• Understand how to generate an eVisa share code

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.

Please note if applicable, applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.

If you have not already done so, you are therefore encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

Flexible Working

We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL. Changes made to the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook mean that:

• All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
• There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
• Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason.

At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to also discuss flexible working options at interview stage.

Working for Team MWL

Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Employee of the month. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

The Trust is a non-smoking across all our sites. Failure to follow this rule could lead to disciplinary action. For more information, see the Smoke Free NHS website.

You will be expected to undertake the Trusts' commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated and will check all applications against AI detection software.

Additional Information

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE, which can be found here .

An applicant guide to help and support you with your application and what to expect during your recruitment journey can be accessed in the supporting documents.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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