The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond – come and take your place with us.
An fantastic opportunity has arisen to join and support the Clinical Coding Training team for the Northern Care Alliance.
You should have great communicative skills, be enthusiastic about working in a fast-paced environment, able to manage and prioritise your own workload, and be driven to ensure we have high quality coding within our department. You will be approachable and supportive to the Clinical Coding teams, providing timely guidance, feedback and helping to motivate them to improve the quality of coding in all aspects.
Staff applying for this position will be able to negotiate their base at one of the NCA sites. In addition to this, we offer hybrid working, with the expectation of working part of the time on site, and part remotely. However you will eb required to travel and work across all sites within the NCA.
All applicants must hold Accredited Clinical Coder (ACC) status and have a minimum of 2 years post qualification experience of working in a clinical coding department.
For current NHS Digital approved Clinical Coding Trainers – applicants with this certification will commence as a Band 6.
If you are not NHS Digital qualified, you will be recruited into the post on Band 5 AfC with an upgrade to Band 6 upon successfully obtaining NHS Digital approved Clinical Coding Trainer status.
Working closely with our other clinical coding trainer you will have responsibility for the delivery of a comprehensive training programme to the Trusts clinical coding department as well as implement and deliver regular approved training sessions for clinical coders, clinicians, and managers to improve knowledge of clinical coding and related topics.
The post holder will advise and assist in the implementation of new guidance and standards, ensuring that local policies and guidance are updated to best serve the needs of the Organisation, and which conform to national coding standards.
The NCA Clinical Coding teams cover across the Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford Care Organisation's. For the BRO sites there are a mixture of electronic and case notes, and at Salford there is an fully electronic patient record (EPR).
The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.
COVID-19 Vaccination Information
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/covid-19-vaccination-programme where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.
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The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from everyone. We value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of our local community. If you are disabled and require reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact the Recruitment Team to discuss.
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