Join QEII Jubilee Hospital as a Clinical Coding Quality Coordinator and play a vital role in driving excellence in clinical coding accuracy and documentation quality. If you're passionate about healthcare data integrity, enjoy leading education initiatives, and thrive in a collaborative environment where your expertise directly supports patient care and hospital funding, this is the perfect opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

Job details

Your new role:

We are seeking a dedicated Clinical Coding Quality Coordinator to join our Health Information Management Services team. In this role, you will:

• Lead and manage the Clinical Coding Quality Program, including education, quality audits, and clinician liaison activities to ensure high standards of coding accuracy, consistency, and timeliness.
• Provide expert advice on DRG assignment and the application of coding standards within the hospital.
• Coordinate clinician liaison across multiple disciplines to improve clinical documentation and support accurate DRG assignment.
• Develop and deliver education and training programs for clinical coders and clinicians to enhance coding quality and compliance.
• Monitor coding performance, manage competency programs, and support the team in meeting coding deadlines.

About you:

The ideal candidate will possess:

• Strong expertise in clinical coding standards, classification practices, and hospital funding methodologies, including up-to-date knowledge of ABF, ICD-10-AM, and QHAPDC definitions.
• Proven experience in managing quality assurance activities such as coding audits, education programs, and performance monitoring.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively liaise with clinicians, coders, and management.
• Mandatory qualifications: Completion of a Comprehensive Medical Terminology course (or Challenge Examination) and an Introductory, Intermediate, or Advanced ICD-10-AM, ACHI and ACS clinical coding course (or equivalent).

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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.

About us:

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.

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.

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• MS08650641 Role Description (PDF, 356KB)
  Role Description
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 415KB)
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