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Company Description

Epworth HealthCare is Victoria’s largest not-for-profit private health care group, renowned for excellence in diagnosis, treatment, care and rehabilitation. Epworth is an innovator in Australia’s health system, embracing the latest in evidence-based medicine to pioneer treatments and services for our patients. 

Our values and purpose define Epworth's approach and delivery. We pride ourselves on communicating and delivering them in a real and meaningful way. Every Patient Matters.

Job Description

We are currently recruiting two full time Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDS) roles, on a 12-month fixed term basis, to be part of Epworth’s newly formed Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) program.

One CDS will be based at our Richmond hospital and the other at our Freemasons (East Melbourne) hospital.

Each CDS will work in close collaboration with clinicians, nurses, theatre staff and the Health Information Services (HIS) Coding team to ensure clinical documentation is accurate, complete and reflects the complexity of each patient. The CDSs will be primarily involved in the review of clinical documentation of current inpatients and facilitating education sessions for clinicians and nursing staff on clinical documentation.

The CDSs will report to the Hospital Finance Manager at each site while working in close alignment with the HIS team.

You will make an impact by:

• Using your relevant experience to identify opportunities to improve clinical documentation.
• Developing strong relationships with clinicians and nursing staff that will enable you to influence and drive cultural change.
• Working collaboratively with the HIS team. Act as a conduit between clinicians and HIS to help drive efficiencies and improvements in the clinical coding process.
• Monitoring and analysing data to seek areas of opportunity.
• Producing reports on outcomes as a result of the CDI activities.

To be successful in this role..

You are self-driven, ambitious and like to take initiative. You have experience working in an acute care hospital setting and enjoy collaborating with stakeholders to help drive improvement in clinical documentation. The ability to engage with clinicians and other key stakeholders is the critical success factor in this role.

You will have:

• Current nursing registration with AHPRA.
• Experience working in an acute care hospital setting.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and implement change and influence clinical staff across all levels.
• Ability to demonstrate and facilitate excellent working relationships with clinicians.
• Strong broad-based clinical knowledge and understanding of pathology/physiology of disease processes.
• Computer literacy and familiarity with the operation of standard office equipment.
• Highly developed written, verbal and communication skills with strong interpersonal skills to liaise and consult with a range of staffing groups.
• Knowledge of private hospital funding models and an understanding of ICD -10-AM coding and clinical documentation standards is desirable.

Position Description    Inherent Requirements

Additional Information

At Epworth, it’s a community. It’s the sense of belonging and being part of an organisation that puts the patient in the centre of all that is done. In addition to this, you will have access to:

• Epworth’s enhanced Not for Profit status (and not available in the public sector) provides the opportunity for employees to salary package up to $15,900 pre-tax annually, leading to greater take home pay
• The largest educational scholarship program of its kind in Australia
• Ability to purchase up to four additional weeks of leave
• Reduced cost of health services for you and your family at Epworth
• Relocation assistance is available for approved candidates

At Epworth, we care.

We care about our patients and we care about our people.  We care about keeping everyone safe.  We care about valuing and empowering our people, and growing careers.  And we care about giving our people support and flexibility to thrive, and contribute to our communities.