- Apply your advanced clinical coding expertise across a diverse tertiary healthcare setting.
- Make an impact on coding quality, data integrity and patient care outcomes.
- Share your knowledge, support fellow coders and contribute to continuous improvement.

Use your advanced ICD-10-AM coding skills to deliver accurate clinical data, strengthen coding quality and support excellence across Western Sydney's healthcare services.

Employment Type: Casual Position Classification: Health Manager Level 1

Remuneration: $46.05 - $61.27 per hour

Location: Western Sydney Local Health District

Where you'll be working

Join Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD), where your expertise will contribute to the quality, accuracy and integrity of clinical information that supports healthcare delivery and informed decision-making.

As part of a dedicated clinical coding team, you will work across a broad range of clinical specialties in a tertiary healthcare environment, collaborating with experienced professionals who value accuracy, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

- Work with complex inpatient medical records across a diverse range of clinical specialties.
- Be part of a collaborative team committed to clinical coding excellence and professional development.
- Contribute to initiatives that strengthen clinical documentation, coding accuracy and data quality.
- Share your expertise through mentoring, education huddles and knowledge exchange.
- Support the integrity of clinical activity data that informs Activity Based Funding (ABF) and healthcare planning.

What You'll Be Doing As a Casual Advanced Clinical Coder, you will bring your extensive clinical coding experience and sound skilled judgement to accurately translate complex clinical documentation into high-quality coded data. You will play an important role in maintaining coding standards, supporting team capability and driving continuous quality improvement.

Your Responsibilities Will Include





- Delivering accurate clinical coding: Analyse complex inpatient medical records and electronic documentation, assigning ICD-10-AM codes using Solventum Codefinder in accordance with Australian Coding Standards (ACS) and relevant coding guidelines.
- Driving coding quality and data integrity: Participate in coding audits, quality improvement initiatives, edit checks and documentation reviews to maintain coding accuracy and compliance.
- Supporting team capability: Mentor and provide guidance to less experienced coders, contribute to clinical coding education huddles and share specialist knowledge and best practice.
- Strengthening clinical data and funding accuracy: Validate Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) allocations, ensure accurate data entry into the Patient Administration System (PAS) and support Activity Based Funding requirements.
- Managing coding performance and priorities: Maintain agreed coding accuracy, productivity and throughput targets while prioritising workloads, meeting reporting deadlines and completing clinical documentation queries.

Make a difference with Western Sydney Local Health District Bring your expertise to a collaborative team, improve clinical data quality and support better healthcare outcomes for our communities.

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How To Apply

Apply online by submitting your resume and addressing the criteria listed below by providing examples that demonstrate your ability before the closing date.





- Successful completion of a recognised Australian Clinical Coding qualification in the current edition of ICD-10-AM and/or Health Information Management degree.
- Extensive Clinical Coding experience (in the current ICD-10-AM version) across a broad range of specialties, evidenced to meet the District’s set KPIs of accuracy and throughput.
- Demonstrated understanding of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) and Activity Based Funding (ABF).
- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal and communication skills with high level attention to detail.
- Proven ability to prioritise tasks and effectively manage time and resources to meet pre-determined targets and deadlines.
- Ability to analyse, abstract, interpret and report information in clinical coding forums.
- Enthusiastic attitude and demonstrated ability to work both independently, within a team and be flexible in a changing work environment.
- Demonstrated experience using computer applications.

Requisition ID: REQ707598 Applications Close: 22 November 2026

Need more information?

- Discover more about the application process.
- Review the detailed Position Descriptionfor insights into role requirements and criteria.
- Explore the selection process, employment checks, outcomes and notifications.
- For inquiries about the role, contact Janet Tang on [email protected]

People with disabilities who meet the selection criteria are encouraged to apply; and where required, WSLHD will implement reasonable adjustment consistent with industry standard. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

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📌 Casual Advanced Clinical Coder (Sydney)
🏢 Western Sydney Local Health District
📍 Sydney