Trainee Clinical Coder
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 18/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for a Trainee Clinical Coder to join the busy Clinical Coding Team at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS FT. The job involves abstracting and analysing clinical information to assign diagnostic and procedural codes, which underpins the Trust's income. Accuracy and attention to detail are essential, and the role requires long periods of VDU use. Training takes around two years, including a Clinical Coding Standards Course and supervised coding. The position offers hybrid working and flexibility to support work/life balance.
Key responsibilities
- Abstract and analyse clinical information from a wide variety of sources both paper and electronic formats.
- Assign diagnostic and procedural codes to episodes of care in a timely and accurate manner.
- Input codes into encoding software ensuring accuracy at all times.
- Convey complex coding rules to a wide variety of staff within the organisation e.g.clinicians, managers and information staff and with staff outside the Trust.
- Identify and retrieve missing information in order to achieve departmental and Trust targets on completeness of coding.
Essential criteria
- Must have A-level or equivalent in a Biology based subject
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook
Desirable criteria
- Must have completed a UK Clinical Coding Foundation/Standards Course
- Educated to degree level
- Keyboard skills to ECDL level or equivalent
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Trainee Clinical Coder
The closing date is 18 September 2026
Job summary
Do you have some knowledge of anatomy and physiology and medical terminology?
Are you a lateral thinker/problem solver, logical and with attention to detail?
Are you educated to at least A level standard, preferably with a biology related qualification?
If so you could be just the sort of person we are looking for to join our busy Clinical Coding Team
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS FT is looking to appoint trainee Clinical Coders to help us capture the clinical activity we undertake at the hospital. This will support a variety of processes within the Trust and underpins the income of the Trust. Accuracy and attention to detail are essential. The role requires long periods of VDU use
This is a full-time position (37.5 hours) based at Clatterbridge Hospital, with opportunity for hybrid working and flexibility with working times to support our employees with a healthy work/life balance.
Training takes around two years and consists of a Clinical Coding Standards Course, speciality workshops and courses and a period of supervised coding.
If you are an accredited clinical coder we can offer you a role at a Band 4, please contact us for further details.
Main duties of the job
- Abstract and analyse clinical information from a wide variety
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