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Overall, this role is crucial for enhancing the quality of healthcare service delivery by ensuring that patient records are accurately maintained and processed. The position offers benefits such as NHS Pension and 35 days of annual leave pro-rata, making it an appealing opportunity for those looking to contribute positively to patient care while utilizing their coding skills.
Clinical Coder, based at the Hollinwood Medical Practice in Oldham
30 hours per week // NHS Pension // 35 days annual leave pro rata
Do you want to have a job that makes a difference and helps people? Are you organised, a little bit nerdy (in the best way) and keen to use your skills to help our doctors, nurses, and other healthcare staff to provide an outstanding service? Then you might fit in very well in our coding team.
Access the EmisWeb clinical system. Code the incoming documents/letters and attach them to the patient record. Read through the documents/letters, code the appropriate entries into clinical system. Triage these and determine whether they should be forwarded to the GP/ other healthcare professional for them to view/action
About us
JOB PURPOSE:
The role of Clinical Coder will be to triage all incoming clinical documents and letters, adding the appropriate codes to the patients record in the clinical system, and then determining whether they should be forwarded to the GP or another member of the Practice team to action.
The post holder will play a significant and important role in reducing the administrative workload for GPs.
The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES
- Downloading of electronic documents into the patients records in the clinical system
- Accurately coding the abovementioned documents, including diagnostic test results, follow up, etc.
- Undertaking triage to determine which documents need to be passed to a GP or other healthcare professional where their input is required
- Send tasks, as appropriate, to GPs and other healthcare professionals via the clinical system
- For paper documents which have been scanned, access these via the tasks that have been sent to the GP Assistant. Undertake the coding and triaging as outlined above for electronic documents
- Liaise and communicate, as appropriate, with other colleagues in the Practice, for example Secretaries, administrative staff by way of tasks sent from the clinical system
- Monitor the number of outstanding electronic documents and tasks, ensuring that these are actioned in a timely manner. Liaise with the Line Manager if there are any capacity issues in dealing with these so that support, as required, can be provided
- Aim to clear all electronic documents and tasks within one working day
- Participate in monthly audits
- Partake in practice meetings
- Liaise with outside organisations, such as hospitals/NHS111/Out of Hours provider, as
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