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Location
Gloucestershire | United Kingdom
Job description
You will be responsible for (but not limited to) the following: - Ensuring accurate, timely, complete, and consistent clinical coding is carried out within strict timescales, using ICD-10 and OPCS-4 classifications, and adhering to the national coding standards and local clinical coding policies of the Trust. - Collect, collate, and code clinical information, highly complex in nature, covering a wide range of specialties. This may involve coding highly sensitive and emotionally distressing patient medical records. - Maintaining own productivity by ensuring high quality work is done by required timescales. - Liaise with their line manager where necessary to confirm appropriate diagnosis and procedure codes where national guidance is unclear. - Regularly liaise with and update the managers and senior colleagues regarding deficiencies and ambiguity in clinical documentation to facilitate discussions with the clinical teams and other departments to improve the clinical documentation provided for coding purposes. - Raise data quality issues to the Coding Mangers.- Act as a mentor to Coders and Trainees/Apprentices within the department.- Attend and participate in team meetings to ensure knowledge and learning points are received and communicate *Please refer to the job description and person specification documents for more details on the responsibilities and requirements for this role. If you require any further information on this role then please contact: Rebecca Gyimah (Head of Clinical Coding Strategy & Development) 0300 422 ext 6015 GRH 4797 CGH [email protected]
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Salary
£28.41k - £34.58k per annum
