SFIA Skills: Business intelligence (BINT)

Plans and manages clinical coding activities in line with stakeholder requirements. Ensures that clinical coding processes are robust efficient and fit for purpose.

Establishes strategic approaches to safeguarding clinical coding data and any analysis results, looking ahead to new and innovative approaches to data security

Leads the development of clinical coding policy, standards and guidelines to meet the current and future needs of the organisation.

Leads the development of clinical coding policy, standards and guidelines to meet the current and future needs of the organisation.

Champions the organisation’s commitment to efficient and effective clinical coding.

Sets direction and leads the introduction and use of clinical coding processes, methods and standards to meet business requirements, ensuring consistency of application and service provision.

Leads the process improvement function to assess process improvement opportunities and maximise benefit.

Authorises the issue of formal reports to management on the effectiveness and efficiency of control mechanisms and the extent of compliance of systems with standards, regulations and/or legislation.

Ensures audit coverage is sufficient to provide the business with assurance of adequacy and integrity. Obtains and manages appropriate specialist expertise to contribute highly specialised technical knowledge and experience where required.

Works with senior management to review the effectiveness of existing audit strategy and contributes to strategy revision and/or definition.

Develops organisational policies, standards, procedures and guidelines for the conduct of audits.

Leads the production of the audit roadmap.

Leads the planning and resourcing of audits and/or conformance reviews at organisation level, ensuring objectivity and impartiality of the audit process is rigorously applied.

Provides general and specific clinical coding advice to senior management on ways of improving the effectiveness and efficiency of control mechanisms.

Ensures that all clinical coding activity complies with data and information security processes.

Manages the development of clinical coding policy, standards and guidelines to meet the current and future needs of the organisation.

Leads risk assessments and risk reviews. Identifies and evaluates associated risks and how they can be mitigated.

Contributes to the development of new internal standards and updates to existing standards.

Contributes to the development of the audit roadmap.

Ensures audits under own responsibility are managed, planned, resourced, and executed within roadmap timescales.

Provides general and specific audit advice to management on ways of improving the effectiveness and efficiency of control mechanisms.

Determines what information is required, and defines search and other criteria to meet a specified requirement.

Undertakes analytical activities to deliver analysis outputs in accordance with service needs and conforming to agreed standards.

Investigates available internal and external information sources to establish what information is available. Identifies and establishes the reliability and data risks of external sources of information of relevance to the operational needs of the enterprise.

Ensures that all clinical coding activity complies with data and information security processes.

Contributes to the development of local clinical coding policy, standards and guidelines.

Undertakes analytical activities to deliver analysis outputs, conforming to agreed standards.

Applies appropriate security and quality safeguards to the handling of data, information, and any analysis results throughout the data lifecycle.

Undertakes basic analytical activities, and assists with more complex activities, to deliver analysis outputs that conform to agreed standards.