Senior Clinical Coder

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and motivated Senior Clinical Coders to join our highly experienced and friendly Clinical Coding team at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust in Cornwall. You will have the opportunity to engage with clinicians, validate clinical coding and become the lead coder for designated specialties.

Due to the imminent implementation of our Electronic Patient Record, we are able to offer remote or hybrid working to the successful candidate. Due to a recent retirement, we now have four full time vacancies available.

As a department we offer clinical coders a supportive, comprehensive training and development structure through strong leadership, an in-house training programme delivered through a Terminology and Classifications Delivery Service Approved Clinical Coding Trainer. Continued professional development for all clinical coders, developing existing skills and learning new ones is important to us. We organise regular clinically led education sessions relating to multiple areas of clinical coding.

Our team also has a group of Mental Health First Aiders to support staff wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

As an Accredited Senior Clinical Coder, you will need to be able to demonstrate an extensive understanding of both ICD-10 and OPCS 4 classifications, complex coding rules and the application of national clinical coding standards.

You will have an adaptable and organised approach to work, supporting the provision of accurate and high quality clinical coding for admitted patient activity.

The Clinical Coding Team is responsible for the extraction and translation of documented clinical information pertaining to inpatient admissions into diagnosis (ICD-10) and procedural (OPCS 4) clinical codes. Clinical coded data is crucial to the Trust for many key functions such as business planning, reporting, mortality indicators and underpins the income received through the National Tariff Payment Scheme.

The post holder will play a key part in ensuring clinical documentation is fit for coding purposes, data quality is accurate and specialties are engaged with our service requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Accredited Clinical Coding Qualification (NCCQ)
  • Clinical Coding Refresher Course completion within the last 3 years
  • Minimum of 5 GCSE passes at grade 4 or above or equivalent, must include Maths, English & Science
  • ECDL or equivalent IT qualification

Desirable

  • Supervisory qualification
  • Willingness to undertake auditor qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience working in a coding dept
  • Experience of participating in complex coding audits and validation
  • Experience of working with hospital-based computer systems
  • Experience using Windows packages
  • Experienced at supervising or mentoring staff

Desirable

  • Experience of using data analysis and benchmarking tools
  • Experience using Oracle Millennium EPR
  • Experience using Solventum Medicode 360

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Good keyboard skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Knowledge of HRGs, NTPS, PbR
  • Methodical, accurate & numerate
  • Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Able to prioritise and manage own workload
  • Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 26 July 2026

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