Who are we looking for? Our exacting clients require the highest standards of service from Tribal Health Services. In the past, this has meant that we only employed accredited clinical coders, with a minimum of three years of NHS clinical coding experience and additional skills in all specialities. But this is changing … RELATED READINGS: http://thecrowdfundingcentre.com/?page=project&id=TDP5X4 http://www.rockethub.com/projects/38828-clinical-coding-westhill-consulting https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/124683-clinical-coding-westhill-consulting

1. Westhill Consulting
Clinical Coding

2. The Role
Who are we looking for?
Our exacting clients require the highest standards
of service from Tribal Health Services. In the past,
this has meant that we only employed accredited
clinical coders, with a minimum of three years of
NHS clinical coding experience and additional skills
in all specialities. But this is changing …

3. Tribal wants experienced non-ACC clinical coders!
Now, Tribal’s looking for experienced clinical
coders – even if you don’t have your ACC
qualification.
Why the change? Our clients demand a very high
standard of clinical coding performance but are
increasingly worried about cost. They’re looking for
added value.

4. Tribal Health Services has built its reputation
supplying quality clinical coders and this will not
change. To ensure quality coding is delivered, new
non-ACC employees will be assessed and trained to
achieve the new Tribal “Certificate of Clinical
Competence”.
We’re delighted to offer non-ACC clinical coders
the opportunity for further training and support
with us – and encourage our employees to achieve
ACC standards. But if you’re happy to remain
working for us without taking your ACC, then that’s
fine too!

5. Are you ACC qualified?
Tribal always needs ACC qualified clinical coders,
too! And, Tribal can offer you additional training,
support and development opportunities to become a
mentor, qualified trainer or auditor. (Read about
our clinical coders’ personal experiences of
working with Tribal …)

6. Are you a qualified trainer or auditor?
If you’re a qualified trainer or auditor already, we’d
be delighted to work with you and encourage you
to participate in delivered training or carrying out
PbR audits.

7. What do we offer Tribal employees?
The Tribal group employs over 2,000 people. As
part of Tribal, we offer the job security that comes
with a bigger business and permanent roles, with
excellent training and big company benefits.

8. Tribal benefits for employees includes:
A stakeholder pension scheme with an employers
contribution of 2% of your salary (rising to 4%
from 1 April 2010, 6% from 1 January 2011)
Private medical insurance for you
25 days paid holiday a year + 8 Bank holiday (pro
rata for part-time employees)
Life assurance (4 x salary cover)
Paid sick leave after successful completion of
probationary period

9. What about expenses?
• Tribal offers clinical coding employees:
• Your own mobile phone (or business calls reimbursed, if
you prefer to use your own phone)
• A laptop for each trainer and auditor
• Paid travel expenses *
• Car hire *
• Hotel accommodation *
• (* as part of necessary business expenses)
• And, you don’t have to book your hotel or car hire!
Wherever we can, we take care of all the arrangements
for you.

10. Travelling
Our clinical coders go where the need arises. So,
this has involved some travelling and overnight
stays. But, we’ve decided to move away from this
model and develop our business along regional
areas.

11. Tribal has over 40 offices throughout the UK. We’re
now making use of our offices in Sheffield,
Manchester, Birmingham and London to create
regional clinical coding centres - local bases for
local coders. And, we've appointed four regional
clinical coding managers in these cities, so far!
Our plans mean that we actively seek local clients
for local coders, with the aim to match our local
coding resource to local demand.

12. Training
• Accurate clinical coding is critical to our clients, both in the NHS
and the private sector. So, we make sure that our clinical coding
consultants receive extensive training, including:
• Foundation course
• Coding refresher courses
• Pre-NCCQ course
• Obstetrics
• Trauma and orthopaedics
• Cardiovascular
• Neoplasms
• Other specialty workshops, and
• one to one mentoring
And, we have experts at the end of the phone for your clinical
coding queries whilst you are on site …

13. Keen to have more training and support?
At Tribal, we’re keen for people to develop with us.
We’re now recruiting experienced, non-ACC
clinical coders. So, we’re keen to offer specially
designed mentoring and training programmes for
non-ACC coders to achieve our new Tribal
"Certificate in clinical coding competence".

14. With our support, many of our ACC clinical coding
consultants have gone on to become mentors and
qualified as trainers and auditors, as well as
supporting healthcare consultancy projects. (Read
about our clinical coders’ personal experiences of
working with Tribal …)
As part of the Tribal Group, we offer management
and business skills courses, for example:

15. Introduction into management
Recruitment and selection
Performance management
Inspirational leadership
Presentation / sales skills training and
"presenting with impact"
Facilitating groups
Writing excellent reports
Technical writing skills
Managing projects effectively and PRINCE 2
ECDL based courses in IT

16. As a market leader in clinical coding services, we’re
committed to offering our employees ongoing
support, as well as training.
Tribal holds regular coding events, so that our
coding staff can catch up on new ideas and with
each other. Auditor training days, followed by
dinners, are a regular feature. And, we’re now
planning our next trainers’ gathering …

17. All the Tribal Health Services team, including noncoders and business consultants, participate in these
regular get togethers. Recent team away days have
included a spa day in Bath for the girls and a day at
an F1 centre, where driving the F1 simulator was
the highlight of the day for the men! Our Christmas
“do” always remains a mystery until the last
moment!
Talk to us about the opportunities that could be
available for you at Tribal!

18. RELATED READINGS:
• http://thecrowdfundingcentre.com/?page=proje
ct&id=TDP5X4
• http://www.rockethub.com/projects/38828clinical-coding-westhill-consulting
• https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1246
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