Clinical Coder/Health Information Specialist

7 days ago


Elizabeth Vale, South Australia SA Health Full time
About the Role

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking skilled Clinical Coders and Advanced Clinical Coders to join the Health Information Management Service (HIMS) team.

Key Responsibilities
  • Ensure accurate, timely, and detailed abstraction and classification of inpatient episodes of care onto the relevant Hospital database, following established State and National guidelines and coding standards.
  • Provide support 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.
  • Ensure ethical documentation queries are completed, when required, to support accurate and comprehensive morbidity and casemix profile for NALHN; provide advice and support to clinical staff to ensure clinical documentation improvement.
  • Ensure the maintenance of medical record procedures in relation to the coding unit.
  • Access all patient information for each episode via Sunrise or associated computer systems to ensure accurate coding of inpatient data.
  • Demonstrate competence in the knowledge of the APC data collection process, definitions, and procedures to a competent level.
  • Demonstrate competence in the knowledge of Activity-Based Funding and DRG principles.
Requirements
  • Satisfactory completion of the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA) coding course.
  • Demonstrated competency in ICD-10-AM coding.
Working with SA Health

SA Health promotes diversity and flexible ways of working, including part-time arrangements. We encourage applicants to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.

Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category B (indirect contact with blood or body substances).

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening, and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.



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