Improving Patient Services as a Clinical Coding Consultant

At Capita Healthcare Decisions, our clinical coding consultants work with various healthcare organisations to deliver a quality clinical coding service. Working onsite with our clients and remotely, you’ll support coding activities to maintain accuracy and consistency, and feeding back any queries or issues to the relevant hospital lead.

You’ll need to be an experienced and accredited clinical coder (ACC), with knowledge of how to code complex episodes, as well as the motivation and organisational skills to meet tight deadlines. This is a home-based role where you’ll carry out some clinical coding projects remotely, with travel involved to client hospitals across the South East. This is a great opportunity to grow your experience by working for different specialist providers, while helping our clients make smart decisions that will keep healthcare services running smoothly.

What you’ll be doing:

• undertaking clinical coding at different client sites, and remotely from home
• providing a professional coding service as an ambassador for Capita Healthcare Decisions
• Visiting client hospital sites on a regular basis to support coding during each month and at month-end for coding completeness.
• ensuring completeness of coding, continually striving to maintain timelines, accuracy and consistency of clinical coding when on the client site
• promoting Capita Healthcare Decisions as an expert and professional coding, audit and consultancy services provider; recognising potential opportunities to obtain further work with clients.

What we’re looking for:

• an experienced and accredited clinical coder with relevant qualification (ACC)
• ability and willingness to travel between home and different client sites
• demonstrable ability and history of meeting tight deadlines with complex projects
• excellent client relationship skills and the ability to work effectively within different teams
• knowledge of the Data Security and Protection Toolkit and patient confidentiality requirements

About Capita Healthcare Decisions

At Healthcare Decisions, we are transforming healthcare to create sustainable health services for tomorrow. Our decision support software and programmes enable public and private healthcare providers and insurers to make better decisions for their customers. As part of our team you’ll help to empower people to take control of their own health and wellbeing.

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive basic salary
• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27 after 2 years) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You’ll be joining a network of 55,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

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Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you’ll be asked to share your personal characteristics and data with us. This helps us understand our audience so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.