Clinical Coder

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Full Time, Permanent
**Classification**: Clinical Coder Level 1 (PN 21566, 47221)
**Salary**: $95,474 - $131,086 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:Canberra Hospital, Garran
**Section**:Health Information Services
**Closing Date**:2 July 2024

**What can we offer you**:

- City living without the traffic - click here to see why you should live in Canberra.- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.- Flexible working conditions.- 11.5% Superannuation.- **About the Role**:
The CFO Division is responsible for developing and maintaining budgets, providing strategic financial advice, procurement and supply, and operational reporting across the health service. Additionally, the CFO Division includes the Health Information Services (HIS) team, which provides a range of services including:

- Provision of health records and personal health information for patient care, research, quality improvement, education, and medicolegal purposes.- Clinical record scanning and management.- Clinical coding and casemix data generation.- Patient identifier management.Clinical coding is an essential function for Canberra Health Services to support clinical research and education, to facilitate accurate funding reimbursement, assist in the planning and evaluation of health care services and to fulfil local and mandatory national data submission requirements.
- Under general direction you will be responsible for the timely and accurate coding of inpatient records. This will involve abstracting relevant information on-line from the Digital Health Record (DHR) and other associated clinical information systems and assigning complete and accurate codes in accordance with established coding procedures and standards. You will play a key role in determining appropriate DRG allocation, optimising coding throughput, ensuring targets and key performance indicators are met and participating in routine coding quality improvement activities.
- For more information regarding the position duties click here for the _Position Description._
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.**To Apply**:
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

**Our **Vision**: creating exceptional health care together
**Our** **Role**: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
**Our **Values**: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind
- Canberra Hospital Expansion Project - CHS is constructing a new critical services building called ‘Building 5’ which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory’s history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution._
- North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities._
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**Job**: General/Administrative

**Salary Range**: 95,474.00 - 131,086.00

**Contact Name**: Dianne Ramadan

**Closing Date**: 02/Jul/2024, 8:59:00 AM