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SalaryJob reference: 854069
Location: 5112 - ELIZABETH VALE
Job status: Casual
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin & Modbury Hospitals - Elizabeth Vale & Modbury
- Salary: ASO3 $34.03 - $36.27 per hour + 25% loading / ASO4 $38.55 - $40.41 per hour + 25% loading - Casual up to 31 May 2024
About Us:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides carefor more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitanarea of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergencyand Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of morebrand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a fullrange of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic,emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primaryhealth care services across the northern metropolitan area ofAdelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promotingprograms in the community, and transition and hospital substitutionand avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frailaged.
With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works toensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst buildinga highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on aculture of collaboration, respect, integrity andaccountability.
Our core values of respect, integrity and accountabilityunderpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation,creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and healthoutcomes to the Northern area communities.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, EveryoneContributes and Everyone Grows.
Benefits of working at NALHN:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a largerange of opportunities for movement and career progression,you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working withNorthern Adelaide Local Health Network.
Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying forsome of your everyday expenses from your salary before it istaxed.
Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you todevelop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan orregional sites.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicantsfrom interstate or overseas.
About You:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic ClinicalCoder looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growinghealthcare network where you will be part of a supportive teamdelivering high quality care to the community? If so, then thiscould be the opportunity for you. This position will offer youprofessional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusiveculture.
In this role you will have strong interpersonal andcommunication skills which will enable you to successfully problemsolve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability toengage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintainingrelationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverseand competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within astressful and complex environment is essential to this role.
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the NorthernAdelaide Local Health Network as a Clinical Coder within theCorporate Services Division.
As a Clinical Coder you will be responsible forthe timely allocation of ICD-10-AM codes (or subsequent versions)to inpatient episodes of care to produce accurate and comprehensivemorbidity & casemix profile for NALHN situated at Lyell McEwinand Modbury Hospitals as well as the provision of coding andcasemix advice to clinicians within NALHN resulting in accuraterecording 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 will beresponsible for more complex and intricate clinical coding, forquality clinical documentation, mentoring less experienced clinicalcoders and providing advice and support to clinical staff inrelation to clinical documentation.
Key responsibilities of this role include:
- Translating the narrative descriptions of diagnoses and procedures into valid, accurate and complete ICD-10-AM codes which reflect the complete clinical picture of the patient, reason for admission and treatment administered.
- Performing clinical coding at an advanced level, covering a broad Casemix, using appropriate initiative, judgement and resources, such as the Australian and State Coding Standards, internet, anatomy books, abbreviation books, dictionaries etc., to make coding decisions in abstraction and assignment of codes.
- Applying and always maintaining a high level of knowledge and performance outcomes for advanced abstraction, code assignment, interpretation and application of the National and State Coding Standards.
- Ensuring correct allocation and sequencing of all additional diagnosis and procedure codes in accordance with the Australian Coding Standards.
- Ensuring the correct assignment of codes and appropriate DRG assignment.
To be eligible for this position, you must have satisfactorycompletion of the Health Information Management Association ofAustralia (HIMAA) coding course, together with demonstratedcompetency in ICD-10-AM coding.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal HistoryCheck.
Check(s)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving no contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (general employment)
Immunisation Risk for this position is – CategoryB (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 encouragedto apply. Job Ref: 854069
Enquiries
Gill Hacket
Manager Coding Services
Phone: (08) 8133 2***
E-mail: ***********@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
24 May 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
854069 - Clinical Coder_Advanced Clinical Coder - Casual - ASO3 - role description.pdf
854069 - Clinical Coder_Advanced Clinical Coder - Casual - ASO4 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information.
Applications close: 24/05/2024 11:55 PM
Flexibility Statement
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
