Advanced Clinical Coder

Mater is seeking a highly motivated

• Advanced Clinical Coder
• to join our Clinical Coding Services team on a
• casual basis
• This role will code across all Maters and is based at Mater's
• South Brisbane Campus.
• Due to recent staff promotions and internal movements, an exciting opportunity has opened up for a motivated and ambitious individual to join our Clinical Coding Services team.

At Mater Health, you'll find we live and breathe our values. We are a healthcare leader that provides care to more than 500 000 patients each year as a private, benevolent not-for-profit organisation - what profit we make goes back into our business which is why we offer state of the art facilities and the resources to advance your career and provide the exceptional care to patients that everyone associates with Mater.

• Salary range : $53.24 - $57.92 (MCA5) per hour plus 25% casual loading, 11.5% superannuation and
• access to not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900
• access to many staff benefits!
• What you'll be doing
• Accurately assign specific morbidity and procedural classification to patient episodes to meet data reporting requirements
• Code inpatient episodes in accordance with Australian Coding Standards
• Meet standards of coding accuracy and awareness of DRG assignment and the impact on potential funding
• Identification of unclear or ambiguous documentation and subsequent initiation of coding queries
• Participate in coding audit, quality and education to expand coding skills
• About you

You will have a HIMAA Introductory / Intermediate Clinical Coding Course / Certificate 1V in Clinical Classification (or equivalent). You will also have :

• Minimum five years (ideally full-time equivalent) experience working as a Clinical Coder
• Up to date Clinical Coding knowledge using ICD-10-AM / ACHI / ACS
• Experience using 3M Encoder
• Strong organisation skills in planning, prioritising and managing workloads
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work within a team environment
• Understanding of private sector funding models (Desirable)
• Experience using Webpas, iPM, and scanned medical records (Desirable)
• Why join us?

Mater is Queensland's largest and most innovative not-for-profit healthcare service, providing care for almost 700,000 patients a year across a network of 11 hospitals.

We are a leader in healthcare, education and research — and that's because we employ exceptional people.

• MAKEYOURMATERMOVE
• Via salary packaging arrangements, allocate some living expenses directly from your pre-taxable income and ultimately increase your take-home pay
• Access to package meal and entertainment expenses via salary packaging
• Access to leading education and professional development via Mater Education
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program and on-site pastoral care teams
• Discounts to local and national business / venues for Dining / Retail / Travel & Accommodation / Other
• Unlimited access to a multitude of discounted fitness facilities through Fitness Passport
• Access to on-site, discounted parking
• Enhance your expertise and credentials with exclusive discounts on postgraduate certificates through our university partnerships
• Discounted food and beverage at various campus cafés and coffee venues
• Applications close on Tuesday, 17th June 2025.
• Please note, we may contact applicants prior to the closing date, please do not hesitate to APPLY NOW!_

Mater is committed to the wellbeing of their staff, and it is underpinned by our flexible and remote working policies.

• For more information regarding Reconciliation at Mater, please visit our _Reconciliation webpage_._
• Advertised
• 03 Jun 2025 E. Australia Standard Time
• Applications close
• 17 Jun 2025 E. Australia Standard Time