Clinical Coding Team Leader

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Supporting the Trusts Clinical Coding Service Manager in managing the Trusts clinical coders to ensure the provision of accurate, complete and timely clinical information. Managing and allocating work to team members and to maintain officeadministration services. Providing expert coding advice, communicating complex coding rules to clinical coding staff and all healthcare professionals. Promoting Clinical Coding and the importance of good quality data throughout the Trust presenting regularly at Business Unit Directorate meetings.
Working closely with Business Units and act as key contact for any clinical coding related issues. Coding of the more complex case-load within the department extracting complex and highly confidential information from case notes and translating it accurately into diagnostic and intervention/procedure codes, across all specialties in accordance with current coding classifications; and entering the patient data on to the Trusts PAS system. Ensuring the department is adequately managed, trained and audited in line with national standards and able to meet the long-term objectives of the Trust. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
This meansdemonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables andempowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries

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