Bendigo Health is a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture. Bendigo is one of Victoria's fastest growing regional cities, our vision is "Excellent Care. Every Person. Every Time." 

Bendigo Health is a 700 bed service that treats more than 44,000 inpatients, triages more than 50,000 emergency attendees and welcomes more than 1,400 new born babies in a year. In addition more than 13,000 operations are performed in our operating theatres and more than 80,000 occasions of services are provided in our clinics to outpatients.

Quality and Patient Information provides leadership and support for quality improvement, patient safety and experience and health information services across the organisation. The division, through both Health Information Services and Quality have key roles in medical record management, clinical documentation, Freedom of Information, patient safety, quality improvement, risk management, external reporting and compliance requirements. There is a strong strategic and operational focus of promoting quality improvement, supporting the organisation to review incidents, data and systems to improve patient outcomes and efficiency of the business.

Health Information Services (HIS) provides a range of services for Bendigo Health including:

• Specialised management of health information and medical records;
• Clinical coding and expertise in clinical classification and activity based funding models;
• Clinical documentation education and support;
• Statutory data reporting compliance mandated by Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) policies and business rules;
• Data quality responsibilities across Bendigo Health to maintain integrity for internal and external reporting;
• Medical records form design and records standards;
• Freedom of Information (FOI) responsibilities and Release of Information (ROI) for general practitioners and external health care providers; and
• Medical transcription services.

Bendigo Health, employs around 3800 people, is the largest employer in the region and boasts many great staff benefits that include:

• Flexible working arrangements
• Salary Packaging (meals and entertainment and accommodation)
• Staff health and wellbeing program
• Employee assistance program
• Free immunisations
• Social club
• Smoke free environment

Title: Senior Coding Educator / Auditor

Department: Health Information Services

Classification: According to experience

Hours: 160 per fortnight available

Status: Permanent full time / permanent part time opportunities available

For further information on the role please refer to the position description. Applications are to be submitted online.