Clinical Coder

**Job no**: 855374
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Administration and Clerical
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin & Modbury Hospitals - Elizabeth Vale & Modbury**:

- **Salary: ASO3 - $66,590 - $70,968 p.a. / ASO4 - $75,430 - $79,070 p.a. - Full-Time Temporary, up until 9 February 2025**

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

**Benefits of working at NALHN**:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

**About You**:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Clinical Coder looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

**About the Role**:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Clinical Coder within the Corporate Services Division.

As a **Clinical Coder** you will be responsible for the timely allocation of ICD-10-AM codes (or subsequent versions) to inpatient episodes of care to produce accurate and comprehensive morbidity & casemix profile for NALHN situated at Lyell McEwin and Modbury Hospitals as well as the provision of coding and casemix advice to clinicians within NALHN resulting in accurate recording of clinical & morbidity data.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

- Ensuring accurate, timely and detailed abstraction and classification of inpatient episodes of care on to the relevant Hospital database, according to the ICD-10AM or subsequent versions and following established State & National guidelines and coding standards.
- Providing support in the assistance to medical and other clinical personnel to ensure the allocation of ICD-10-AM diagnoses and procedure codes are correct and complete, and can be substantiated by documentation within the medical record.
- Ensuring ethical Documentation Queries are completed, when required, to support accurate and comprehensive morbidity & casemix profile for NALHN; providing advice and support to clinical staff to ensure clinical documentation improvement.
- Ensuring the maintenance of medical record procedures in relation to the coding unit.
- Accessing all patient information for each episode via Sunrise or associated computer systems to ensure accurate coding of inpatient data.
- Demonstrating competence in the knowledge of the APC data collection process, definitions and procedures to a competent level.
- Demonstrating competence in the knowledge of Activity Based Funding and DRG principles.

As an **Advanced Clinical Coder** you