Clinical Documentation Specialist
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- Western Sydney Local Health District
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- REQ565804 Requisition #
🌟 Paid Allocated Day Off (ADO) every month, in addition to your annual leave (For fulltime staff)
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Play a vital role in shaping patient care and health data as a Clinical Documentation Specialist. Your expertise will make a real difference every day.
Employment Type: 2 x Temporary Full Time (Up to May 2028)
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 2
Remuneration: $2105.00 - $2484.00 per week + 11.5% Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Location: Western Sydney Local Health District
Where you'll be working
Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) is committed to delivering quality care and better health services for Western Sydney and beyond. You will join a team that values collaboration, respect, and excellence in clinical documentation.
We strive to :
- Serve diverse communities across five LGAs.
- Support clinicians to reflect true patient journeys.
- Improve data for coding, research, and planning.
- Strengthen inpatient record accuracy and complexity.
- Contribute to a district-wide commitment to quality care.
What you'll be doing
The Clinical Documentation Specialist role supports clinicians in ensuring accurate inpatient medical records, reflecting the true patient journey. This position improves documentation quality for better service planning, research, and clinical coding.
Your daily responsibilities will include:
- Supporting clinicians in accurate documentation practices.
- Education on capturing patient complexity and care.
- Ensuring records reflect the true patient journey.
- Enhancement of data for clinical coding and research purposes.
- Contributing to service planning and quality improvement.
- The role requires the ability to travel independently to various facilities as needed.
Apply online by submitting your resume, and addressing the criteria listed below by providing examples that demonstrate your ability before the closing date
Selection Criteria:
- Recent, extensive experience working in a large, tertiary acute care environment with an in depth understanding of the treatment needs of highly complex patients.
- Demonstrated excellent communication and interpersonal skills with experience delivering presentations to all levels of staff, including senior clinicians, within the organisation.
- Proven ability and experience in implementing change management processes in a broad health care setting.
- Demonstrated analytical, problem solving and organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to work autonomously and within a team.
- Demonstrated commitment to quality improvement principles and improved health care outcomes.
- Basic understanding of benchmarking, activity targets and KPIs and how they fit into an Activity Based Management model.
- Advanced computing skills in Microsoft and relevant packages with demonstrated experience in collecting and managing data.
Requisition ID: REQ565804
Applications Close: 29th June 2025
Need more information?
- Discover more about the application process.
- Review the detailed Position Description for insights into role requirements and criteria.
- Explore the selection process, employment checks, outcomes and notifications.
- For inquiries about the role, contact Flavia D'Souza on Flavia.DSouza@health.nsw.gov.au
People with disabilities who meet the selection criteria are encouraged to apply; and where required, WSLHD will implement reasonable adjustment consistent with industry standard.
Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal job applicants by providing information about applying for roles in NSW Health organisations. For more information, please visit: https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/ Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.
Westmead hospital car parking allocation model is changing. There is a waitlist for parking for new staff commencing at Westmead Hospital. This does not apply for staff with disability.
Please note: In accordance with NSW Health policy, priority will be given to Australian citizens and permanent residents. A person who is not an Australian citizen or permanent resident is only eligible for temporary employment for a period not longer than the duration of their current visa or the advertised position.
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