Experienced Clinical Coder Needed to Support Quality Health Data and Reporting

Become a vital part of our healthcare team as a Clinical Coder, where your expertise in ICD-10-AM classification ensures accurate, timely data that drives better patient care and health outcomes. Collaborate with clinicians to enhance data quality and make a real impact on Queensland Health’s reporting and service delivery.

Job details

Your new Role:

The role involves accurately assigning specific morbidity and procedural classifications to patient episodes using ICD-10-AM, ensuring compliance with Queensland Health data reporting requirements. It also includes liaising with clinicians and other healthcare professionals to enhance the quality and timeliness of morbidity data by supporting the provision of documentation that improves coded data accuracy.

About You:

You will understand Metro South Health's values and have a genuine desire to join our team! You will bring your unique abilities and experiences to contribute and grow our team! You will have:

• Degree in Health Information Management
• Strong organisational abilities, with the capacity to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines
• Capable of delivering exceptional coding accuracy and ensuring timely completion of coded data.
• Successful completion of a coding course in ICD 10 AM, in a recognised facility or equivalent, inclusive of:
  • Comprehensive Medical Terminology course or Challenge Examination in Medical Terminology
  • Introductory ICD 10 AM, ACHI and ACS clinical coding course (or equivalent)
  • Intermediate ICD 10 AM, ACHI and ACS clinical coding course (or equivalent)

What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital:

The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital (QEII) is a medium metropolitan adult facility providing a range of inpatient and outpatient services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. We provide a range of services, including surgery, cardiology, endoscopy, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, geriatric, respiratory and emergency medicine.

We're making our hospital bigger and better to make it easier for our growing community to get the health care they need. We'll have more beds, medical wards and expanded intensive care and emergency services planned to be opened by 2027.

QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career!

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 415KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MS07647147_2 Role Description (PDF, 263KB)
  Role Description