Would you like to join our Clinical Coding team as a Clinical Coder? Read on to learn more about this rewarding role and submit your application.
Overview
The Clinical Coding service is a part of the Digital Division of the University Hospitals of Leicester and is responsible for extracting and codifying complex clinical information that describes a patient’s diagnostic and procedural healthcare status within an episode of care in a timely manner. The ability of UHL to accurately record and codify its clinical activity is fundamental to understanding the quality of its clinical services. Our coded data is used by all parts of the Trust’s business to deliver trusted and high-quality services to patients.
Our Strategy
We have four primary goals: high‑quality care for all; being a great place to work; partnerships for impact; and research and education excellence. We embed health equality in all we do, taking active steps to reduce avoidable differences in healthcare and working in partnership with communities. Our values are compassionate, proud, inclusive, and one team.
Responsibilities
* Accurately analyse, interpret and extract relevant clinical information and data (including complex conditions, treatments and high cost drugs) from a variety of electronic sources including Badger (Neonatal Care), CITO (scanned patient documents), CRIS (imaging reports), DICT3, Euroking E3 (Maternity admissions), Heart Suite (Paediatric cardiology & surgery), ICE (discharge letters), iLab (pathology results), Intellect Web (cardiac surgery/cardiology), Medisoft (ophthalmology), Nerve Centre, ORMIS, Proton and Solus (endoscopy reports).
* Manage own workload within broad guidelines and work with other coders to achieve coding targets; assist colleagues with coding patient case notes to ensure all coding is completed within the Trust’s stated deadlines, including mentoring less experienced colleagues.
* Identify obstacles to meeting deadlines and take appropriate action to overcome them.
* Identify and analyse patterns of errors and notify the manager, with proposed potential solutions.
* Comply with the Trust and departmental policies and procedures and implement local policies when required.
* Work with clinicians to improve the quality of clinical coded information across the Trust; participate in multidisciplinary team meetings as a coding expert.
* Serve as a key knowledge resource for and assist with the development of documentation of coding processes, procedures and protocols to ensure quality and consistency within the hospital and adherence to national and international guidelines; be responsible for the ongoing revision and documentation of these processes.
* Assist with mentoring and developing inexperienced staff to enable them to exercise their own initiative in selecting appropriate clinical terms to accurately reflect the patient’s episode of care.
* Undertake a programme of continuous professional development to ensure professional coding skills and knowledge are kept up to date and to maintain the ability to work autonomously to the highest professional standards.
* Demonstrate the ability to code more than one speciality.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Our Clinical Coding team is part of the Digital Division of the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. For more information, visit http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/.
This advert closes on Friday 12 Dec 2025.
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