About Medinet Group: Medinet Group is a dynamic healthcare organisation dedicated to delivering high-quality clinical services across the UK. Our integrated businesses-Medinet (insourcing), Remedy Healthcare Solutions (modular endoscopy), and HealthHarmonie (community specialist services)-collaborate closely with NHS and healthcare partners to enhance patient care, reduce waiting times, and deliver innovation in healthcare delivery. We're expanding into new clinical specialties and international markets, providing significant growth opportunities.
We are currently seeking an Accredited Clinical Coder to support a time-limited clinical coding and data quality project, expected to last up to 6 months. The role will support HealthHarmonie and NHS partners with retrospective and current-state coding activity, including historic data review, SUS submissions, RTT validation, and HRG assurance, during a critical delivery phase.
The post holder will work with a high degree of autonomy, contributing to coding accuracy, performance reporting, and income protection, while ensuring compliance with national standards and local governance requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Coding & Audit Activity
* Independently code complex inpatient episodes using ICD-10 and OPCS-4, including multi-specialty, long-stay, and high-complexity cases.
* Audit historic clinical coding to support the correction and resubmission of SUS data, identifying coding inaccuracies and documentation gaps.
* Review and validate coding outputs to ensure alignment with Payment by Results (PbR) and commissioning requirements.
* Liaise with clinicians and operational teams to resolve documentation issues impacting coding accuracy, RTT status, or HRG outcomes.
Data Quality, SUS & RTT Performance
* Support the validation and assurance of RTT datasets, ensuring consistency between clinical activity, pathway status, and submitted data.
* Identify and resolve data quality issues impacting RTT performance reporting and national submissions.
* Contribute to the reconciliation of activity, coding, and performance data across systems (EPR, PAS, SUS extracts).
HRG Validation & Support
* Validate and support HRG assignment, including reviewing grouper outputs and identifying anomalies linked to coding or data quality issues.
* Provide insight into the impact of coding decisions on HRG outcomes, tariff, and income.
* Support audit findings and corrective actions related to HRG and income assurance.
Person Specification
Essential
* Accredited Clinical Coder (ACC) with NCCQ (UK).
* Demonstrable experience in auditing historic clinical coding, including work supporting SUS data quality and resubmissions.
* Proven experience working with RTT datasets, including validation, reconciliation, and performance impact.
* Strong understanding of HRG structure and grouper logic, with experience validating or supporting HRG outputs.
* Extensive NHS clinical coding experience, including complex inpatient episodes.
* Advanced knowledge of ICD-10 and OPCS-4, national standards, and audit requirements.
* High level of analytical capability, attention to detail, and ability to work independently in a project environment.
Desirable
* Experience supporting income assurance, contract monitoring, or performance teams.
* Previous involvement in coding or data quality improvement projects.
* Experience acting as a coding auditor, validator, or subject-matter expert.
* Familiarity with coding and grouping tools (e.g. 3M, SUS tools, local audit frameworks).