UnitingCareQld

Clinical Documentation Specialist

Auchenflower Full time

Employment Term: Permanent Full Time or Part Time opportunities available
Location: Brisbane Metro Areas
Remuneration: Competitive Salary + Super + NFP Salary Packaging (save tax and increase your take home pay)  

Make a meaningful difference at Brisbane Metro Hospitals 

An integral part of our team working in our metro hospitals (The Wesley and St. Andrews War Memorial hospital) as a Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Specialist, you will play a critical role in creating a culture of best-in-class clinical documentation accuracy in support of building a model of care focused on quality and health outcomes.

Your part in our Metro Hospital team

  • You will work closely with both our Clinicians and coding teams to participate in our Clinical Documentation Integrity program.

  • Leverage your clinical, coding, and documentation expertise to foster improvements in the overall quality, completeness, and compliance of clinical documentation.

  • You will facilitate appropriate clinical documentation to ensure that the level of services and acuity of care are accurately reflected in the medical record.

  • You will be based at The Wesley Hospital and/or St Andrews War Memorial Hospital with potential to support St Stephens Hospital and Buderim Hospital in the future remotely.

What makes a difference for us?

  • Demonstrated communication skills (both written and verbal) and the confidence to liaise with medical staff on patient treatment/outcomes is essential

  • Working knowledge and/or ability to acquire knowledge of clinical coding documentation requirements

  • Demonstrated experience and ability to lead, implement sustainable change, and inform key stakeholders across the organisation

  • Highly developed analytical skills and demonstrated aptitude in problem solving, including conflict resolution

  • Bachelor of Nursing or Bachelor of Health Information Management or equivalent

  • Clinical Documentation Specialist Certification or ability to acquire.
    Essential

  • Minimum of 5 years recent clinical experience in an acute care setting.

What makes a difference for you? 

  • NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the following link: Salary Packaging Explained

  • Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance 

  • A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs  

  • 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme  

  • Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events  

  • Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference   

  • A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others 

 

We’d love you to be part of our UnitingCare family   

 

By joining our Hospitals, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 17,500 staff and 9, 000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness. 

 

Child safe, Child friendly 

 

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:  

  • provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children  

  • implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services 

  • appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur 

 

Diversity & Inclusion   

 

Our approach is simple – everybody is welcome here.  At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.   

 

Safe workplace   

 

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.