Clinical Coding Team Leader

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 providing expert, specialist coding expertise to the clinical coding team and Trust wide clinical staff. You will also be expected to manage your own clinical coding workload. There will also be the opportunity to expand your direction if you have an interest in either Clinical Coding Auditing or Training.

The role will involve responsibilities for mentoring of new coders, with shared responsibility for day to day support of the Coding Team. You will also be supporting the Head of Information Governance/DPO, Health Records and Clinical Coding to ensure 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 through 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:

• Support the Clinical Coding Team members and provide engagement with both Clinicians and other Trust staff, providing coding expertise.
• 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.

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.

Details:

• Date posted: 30 January 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year pro rata
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours
• Reference number: 229-COR-7764102
• Job locations: County Hospital, Union Walk, Hereford, HR1 2ER

Job responsibilities: For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification:

Essential

• Education & Qualifications: 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.
• Skills, Knowledge & Abilities: 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: Experience in training and mentoring clinical coders to a high level; Experience of working with hospital based computer systems.

Desirable:

• 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/