Clinical Coder

**Location**: Flexible, travel to Wellington may be required

**Service**: National Collections and Reporting

**Contract**: Permanent, full time
- Be part of the national transformation in Health
- Opportunity to thrive in a fast paced and dynamic environment
- Flexible working fully supported to balance your workplace and lifestyle

Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation
It's not very often something happens that's big; like, really big. Big to the point that it will touch the lives of every single person in the motu. That's what we're talking about here. The provision of health services in Aotearoa, and how they are delivered, is changing in a big way.
Te Whatu Ora-Health New Zealand and Te Aka Whai Ora-Māori Health Authority will together shape the delivery of health services in Aotearoa for generations to come and will form the core of a modern and integrated service looking after the needs of all our whānau. Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness'. Whatu is the combining together of people, resources, organisations, thoughts and actions for the betterment and wellbeing of all. Whatu is also a direct reference to the pupil of the eye, and the vision required of the new entity and system. Join us in this mahi...
Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity
Our Clinical Coders analyse and classify incoming medical data about diseases, injuries, and causes of injury in accordance with strict coding standards and guidelines, to produce health statistics.
As Mortality Clinical Coder you will use your excellent knowledge of diseases and disease progression to learn and excel in the highly specialised task of classifying causes of death.
Joining our Mortality Clinical Coding team, you will be responsible for producing high quality national coded cause of death data for use in statistical analysis, research, evaluation of health services, and national and international reporting. Our engaged and cohesive team of nine staff members (team leader, 6 mortality clinical coders and 2 data administrators) take great care in the work they do because they understand the high value of the data they produce.
Training will be provided on the job via a mix of one-on-one in-person tuition and remote learning via Teams. As soon as you have demonstrated you can learn and work with a level of autonomy flexible hours and remote working from home will be an option for you. Regular team interactions and support will be ongoing.
You will report to the Team Leader Mortality, in the Classification and Terminology Team.

**Some of your responsibilites will include**:

- Abstracting and analysing relevant clinical information from medical documentation, including medical certificates of cause of death, post-mortem reports, coroners' findings, pathology reports and coded hospital discharge summaries. The source information is obtained from online systems, scanned documents and spreadsheets
- Accurately coding causes of death using the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), along with the WHO's complex mortality coding rules and guidelines for selecting the underlying cause of death
- Ensuring data is complete and accurate by contacting data providers, where necessary, to obtain missing clinical information
- Accurately inputting coded data into the mortality database, ensuring each record is matched to the correct identity
- Contributing to the development and continuous improvement of processes and procedures within the team

Mōu | About you
As someone with a background in clinical practice (e.g. medicine or nursing) or hospital clinical coding, who enjoys working in a team environment, you will enjoy this opportunity to continue using your clinical knowledge to benefit the quality of our national mortality statistics as an alternative to continuing in clinical practice.
You will bring along your high standards for accuracy, quality, clarity and consistency in your work and be a team player with a strong ability to build relationships across different teams within the organisation.

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**:

- Tertiary qualification in a relevant clinical field and/or several years' experience in clinical coding in the health sector
- Broad knowledge of anatomy, physiology, medical terminology and disease processes
- Ability to abstract, consolidate and analyse information from a variety of sources
- Excellent organisational skills, methodical work practices, and high attention to detail
- Proven organisational skills with the ability to think ahead, use initiative, establish priorities and meet deadlines whilst preserving high levels of accuracy and confidentiality
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal, team working skills with an emphasis on working collaboratively with others
- Demonstrated experience of working within a Te Ao Māori environment and understanding Tikanga Māori, and/or substantial