Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 2
Location: Nepean Hospital
Remuneration: $114,251- $134,809 per annum
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ646172
Applications close: 26/03/2026
With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,
working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed and develop in your chosen career role.
About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is an exceptional environment to advance your career while enhancing your skills and expertise. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we deliver a comprehensive range of public health services across the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Regions.
Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.
Are you passionate about data quality, clinical documentation, and improving the way healthcare activity is captured and reported? We are seeking a motivated Clinical Coding and SNAP Data Quality Analyst to join our team.
In this role, you will conduct clinical documentation reviews, perform coding and SNAP audits and deliver education to both clinicians and clinical coders to support best-practice standards in clinical documentation. As a team player and collaborator, you will play a key role in ensuring coded data accurately reflects casemix complexity and clinical activity. Your work will help optimise activity-based funding, strengthen data integrity, and support informed decision-making across the hospital.
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to contribute to meaningful improvements in clinical documentation, coding accuracy, and healthcare data quality at Nepean Hospital!
Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees
* Accrued Day Off (ADO)
* Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
* Novated Leasing
* Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
* Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
* Fitness Passport
NBMLHD is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects the community we serve. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+, Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people, neurodiverse individuals, and people with disabilities to apply.
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What you will bring to the role
* Tertiary Qualifications in Health Information Management (or equivalent), or completion of a recognised clinical coding qualification (for example, HIMAA Diploma of Clinical Coding or equivalent nationally recognised certification) and experience in clinical coding audit with eligibility for membership of HIMAA.
* Demonstrated clinical coding expertise with sound knowledge of the Australian Clinical Coding Standards and recent clinical coding experience, including the ability to undertake high‑level quality audits and analysis.
* Highly developed written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to liaise, negotiate, and build effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
* Demonstrated ability to lead and implement change, and to positively influence senior management and clinical staff across all levels of the healthcare setting.
* Advanced computer and data analysis skills, including experience using software such as MS Access, MS Excel, Patient Administration Systems/eMR, 3M Codefinder, and other clinical reporting systems.
* Demonstrated ability to organise tasks, assign priorities, meet deadlines, and work independently with minimal supervision.
* Demonstrated understanding of the relationship between clinical coding, casemix, DRG and SNAP classification systems, and Activity Based Funding/Management Models.
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