Clinical coding summariser / medical secretary
Job Description
Job summary
This is not just any job. This is a Bevan job.
At Bevan Healthcare, we believe everyone deserves access to high-quality healthcare, regardless of their circumstances. Every day, we support people experiencing homelessness, refugees and people seeking asylum, individuals affected by substance misuse, and others facing significant barriers to healthcare.
As our Clinical Coder, Summariser and Medical Secretary, you will play an essential role in helping patients receive safe, effective and coordinated care. By ensuring clinical records are accurate, up to date and clinically meaningful, your work will directly support clinicians to make informed decisions and improve patient outcomes.
This role is about much more than data entry. Every discharge letter, referral and clinical code helps build a complete picture of a person's healthcare journey. Your attention to detail will help ensure vulnerable patients do not fall through the gaps and receive the care and support they need.
You'll join a friendly, supportive and purpose-driven team that values compassion, inclusion, teamwork and continuous improvement. We offer a rewarding working environment, opportunities for development, and the chance to contribute to reducing health inequalities.
If you are organised, motivated, take pride in high-quality work and want to use your skills to make a genuine difference in people's lives, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As a Clinical Coder, Summariser and Medical Secretary, you will play a key role in ensuring patient records are accurate, complete and clinically meaningful. You will review and summarise medical records, process clinical correspondence, and accurately code information within patient record systems to support safe and effective patient care.
You will review hospital letters, discharge summaries, clinic outcomes and investigation reports, ensuring important information such as diagnoses, long-term conditions, safeguarding concerns and other significant clinical details are correctly recorded. You will support data quality, identify coding issues, and escalate concerns in line with practice procedures.
The role also provides medical secretarial support to clinicians and multidisciplinary teams. This includes processing referrals, managing clinical workflows, preparing correspondence, tracking outstanding actions, and liaising with hospitals and community services.
You will maintain strict confidentiality, comply with Data Protection legislation and NHS standards, and ensure information is handled securely and accurately.
You will also contribute to audits, quality improvement activities and service development initiatives, working collaboratively with colleagues to support patient safety, service performance and continuous improvement.
About us
At Bevan Healthcare , our mission is simple: Health, Hope, Humanity. We are a specialist inclusion health GP practice and not-for-profit social enterprise, dedicated to providing NHS healthcare to people who often face the greatest barriers to accessing services.
Joining Bevan means becoming part of a team committed to reducing health inequalities and providing compassionate, non-judgemental care. We believe everyone deserves dignity, respect and the opportunity to achieve better health outcomes.
You will work alongside a friendly multidisciplinary team including GPs, nurses, healthcare assistants, wellbeing teams and patient services colleagues. Collaboration is at the heart of how we work, and every role contributes to delivering excellent patient care.
Bevan is a busy, varied and rewarding place to work. We value kindness, teamwork, flexibility, learning and innovation. Staff are encouraged to share ideas, support one another and help shape service improvements.
In return, you will join an organisation with a strong social purpose, a supportive culture, opportunities for development, and the satisfaction of knowing your work helps vulnerable people receive safer, better and more personalised care.
Job responsibilities
Clinical Coding Summariser / Medical Secretary Job Description
Bevan Healthcare
Health, Hope, Humanity
Bevan is a specialist inclusion health GP practice dedicated to improving access to healthcare for some of the most vulnerable and marginalised people in our communities.
As part of Bevan Healthcare, a not-for-profit social enterprise, we provide accessible, compassionate and high-quality NHS primary care to people who may experience significant barriers to accessing mainstream healthcare services.
Our patients include people experiencing homelessness or insecure accommodation, refugees, people seeking asylum, individuals affected by substance misuse, people with complex physical and mental health needs, and those experiencing social exclusion.
We recognise that good healthcare goes beyond treating medical conditions. Our approach is person-centred, trauma-informed and focused on addressing health inequalities, improving wellbeing and supporting people to access the care they need.
Our multidisciplinary team brings together GPs, nurses, healthcare professionals, care coordinators, administrative colleagues, wellbeing services and outreach teams. We work closely with statutory, community and voluntary sector partners to provide coordinated support tailored to the needs of our patients.
Working at Bevan Bradford
Working at Bevan Bradford offers an opportunity to make a meaningful difference to people who often face the greatest challenges in accessing healthcare.
We value compassion, respect, teamwork, flexibility and a commitment to delivering inclusive services without judgement.
Every member of our team plays an important role in supporting safe and effective patient care, including those working behind the scenes in administrative, coding and medical secretarial roles.
Our staff work in a busy, varied and rewarding environment where no two days are necessarily the same. We encourage collaborative working, professional development and continuous service improvement.
Role Reports To
Practice Manager
Location
Bevan sites across Bradford and Leeds, with occasional travel between sites as required.
Working Relationships
The post holder will work closely with:
- GPs and Advanced Practitioners
- Nursing Teams
- Patient Services Teams
- Social Prescribing Teams
- Healthcare Assistants
- Operational Managers
- External healthcare providers and partner organisations
- Secondary care providers
- Community and voluntary sector services
Job Purpose
To provide a high-quality clinical coding, summarising and medical secretarial service which supports safe, effective and responsive patient care.
The post holder will ensure that patient records are accurately maintained, coded and summarised to support clinical decision-making, improve continuity of care and meet organisational and contractual requirements.
The role is critical in ensuring information from hospitals, community providers and other healthcare organisations is reviewed, processed and recorded appropriately within clinical systems.
The post holder will also provide medical secretarial support to clinicians and multidisciplinary teams as required.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Clinical Coding and Summarising
- Review and summarise patient medical records received from previous healthcare providers.
- Accurately code clinical information using relevant clinical coding standards and practice protocols.
- Process clinical correspondence including hospital letters, discharge summaries, clinic outcomes and investigation reports.
- Ensure patient records are complete, accurate and up to date.
- Identify significant diagnoses, safeguarding concerns, long-term conditions and other relevant clinical information for coding and recording.
- Maintain consistency and quality within patient records.
- Escalate clinical concerns identified during record review in accordance with practice procedures.
- Support data quality improvement initiatives and clinical record audits.
- Assist with the identification and correction of coding anomalies and data quality issues.
Medical Secretarial Duties
- Provide administrative and secretarial support to clinicians and clinical teams.
- Support referral processes, ensuring referrals are processed accurately and within required timescales.
- Manage incoming clinical correspondence and distribute appropriately.
- Assist with tracking referrals and ...
