Lead Coding Excellence in a Major Tertiary Health Service

Use your advanced clinical coding expertise to lead quality, mentor coders, and work closely with clinicians to ensure accurate, timely health data that supports patient care, funding, and statewide reporting.

Job details

Your new Role:

You will provide advanced coding expertise to accurately assign ICD-10-AM and ACHI codes and ensure high-quality inpatient morbidity data reporting. The role mentors clinical coders, conducts audits, resolves complex coding issues, and works closely with clinicians to improve documentation and coding accuracy across the service.

About You:

You are an experienced Senior Clinical Coder with advanced technical knowledge across multiple specialties in a tertiary hospital environment. You have strong attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining high-quality health data, while supporting and guiding other coders to deliver accurate and timely coding outcomes.

You will demonstrate:

• Advanced clinical coding experience in a tertiary healthcare setting
• Strong knowledge of ICD-10-AM, ACHI and Australian Coding Standards (ACS)
• High attention to accuracy, data integrity and morbidity reporting requirements
• Ability to interpret complex clinical documentation and resolve coding queries
• Experience using coding software and hospital information systems (e.g. 3M Codefinder, HBCIS)

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.

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

Princess Alexandra Hospital, a place of countless opportunities to learn 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.

• MS03677970 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)