Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Deputy Clinical Coding Manager
Requirements
Requires the ability to manage a team and communicate complex coding rules to medical and administrative staff. Candidates must be capable of leading improvement projects and analyzing complex coding data to ensure accuracy.
Job Description
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- ensure the timely and accurate delivery of the clinical coding function within the Trust to support commissioning and data submission processes by ensuring the Trust’s coding activity deadlines are routinely met and that staff within the department achieve the highest possible standards.
- Responsibility for innovation in delivery of new coding methodologies and approaches, and in mitigating to a more automated approach.
- Work with senior clinicians and senior managers across the Trust, analysing complex coding data to answer queries on clinical coding, and to ensure that clinical coding is accurate to support Trust income and all other business and clinical purposes for which the data is used.
- Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with consultants and their clinical teams to ensure quality and depth of clinical coding is achieved. In order to achieve this, the post holder is required to communicate sometimes highly complex coding rules to various medical, clinical and administrative staff.
- Manage, plan and organise the assignment of coding workloads to ensure, as far as possible, an even distribution of complexity and volume, ensuring high standards of clinical coding completeness and accuracy within agreed local and national contractual deadlines.
- Responsible for daily first line management of the Clinical Coding staff, including attendance management, disciplinary and grievance procedures, annual leave, appraisal and performance management.
- Promote coding awareness and take part in Trust-wide clinical coding education by liaising with clinicians to validate coded information, attend clinical team meetings and deliver presentations to clinical and non-clinical staff.
- Lead projects related to Clinical Coding improvement work, with the intent to improve accuracy and completeness of clinical coding through improved sources of information, engaging Clinicians, directorate Managers and other relevant departments and teams, in the process. Produce regular reports for the Clinical Coding Manager.
- Responsibility for innovation in delivery of new coding methodologies and approaches, and in mitigating to a more automated approach.
- Work with senior clinicians and senior managers across the Trust, analysing complex coding data to answer queries on clinical coding, and to ensure that clinical coding is accurate to support Trust income .
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Suzanne Williams Job title: Coding Manager Email address: suzanne.williams@alderhey.nhs.uk
Skills
About Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, treating more than 450,000 children and young people every year. It is one of only four stand-alone paediatric trusts in the UK and is staffed by more than 4,000 employees. We offer 20 specialist services including being the designated national centre for head and face surgery and a Centre of Excellence for children with cancer, heart, spinal and brain disease. It is a teaching hospital and trains 550 medical and 400 nursing students each year. Alder Hey hosts the UK Medicines for Children Research Network (MCRN) with a Department of Health grant worth £22m and is also the lead centre for the Cheshire, Merseyside and North Wales MCRN. It leads the field in paediatric pharmacovigilance, being recently awarded the only paediatric NHS programme grant (£2m) for work in this area. In 2015 Alder Hey became Alder Hey in the Park. The new hospital is built in Springfield Park, next door to the old site. The new Alder Hey sits right in the heart of the park, surrounded by green space which can be seen from almost every window.