Medical Coder

Responsibilities

• Process and code registrations for births, deaths, stillbirths, marriages, and civil partnerships accurately and within required timescales.
• Apply the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding framework to accurately classify causes of death.
• Manage Register of Corrected Entries (RCEs), including updating public records following amendments and notifying next of kin where required.
• Liaise with registration offices, the Crown Office, and other stakeholders to verify information, resolve discrepancies, and ensure records are accurate.
• Carry out quality assurance checks on vital events data and manage incoming correspondence through the Vital Events mailbox, ensuring queries and documentation are dealt with efficiently.
• Success profile Success profiles are specific to each job and they include the mix of behaviours, experience and technical criteria (if applicable) that candidates will be assessed on.

About us

Experience

• Experience of analysing and interpreting complex information accurately.
• Behaviours:
• Making effective decisions – Level 1
• Working together – Level 1
• Developing self and others – Level 1
• Managing a quality service – Level 1
• You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours, here: Behaviour levels - Success profiles: candidate guide - gov.scot How to apply
• Apply online, providing a CV and supporting statement (of no more than 750 words) providing evidence of how you meet the behaviours, experience and technical skills listed in the Success Profile above. Both the CV and the supporting statement provided will be assessed against the criteria for the role.
• Vacancies close at 23:59 on Friday 6 November.
• If invited for further assessment, this will consist of an interview and presentation.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be used to support your application, but all statements and examples provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, and presented as your own) applications will be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.
• Please see our candidate guidance for more information on acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in recruitment.
• Assessment timeline to be confirmed.
• Sponsorship
• Skilled Worker sponsorship is not available for this role. As a result, we are unable to appoint candidates who require Skilled Worker sponsorship now or in the future. Applicants must have an existing and ongoing right to work in the UK.
• Recruitment Principles As a government organisation, we adhere to the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles and we investigate any complaints received in relation to recruitment cases.
• You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours, here: Behaviour levels - Success profiles: candidate guide - gov.scot
• How to apply
• Recruitment Principles
• As a government organisation, we adhere to the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles and we investigate any complaints received in relation to recruitment cases.