Administration Assistant

Description:

Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) is an exciting and dynamic place to work. The team at the Hospital are in the midst of implementing a new hospital strategy that has already delivered on the opening of a new renal unit, day surgery center, step down facility in the community and the start of building works on a new ICU extension. It is an exciting time to join the TUH team and one of Ireland’s main teaching hospitals with so many plans to enhance patient care. The Hospital believes in investing in their team and offers excellent education and research opportunities.

TUH is one of Ireland’s largest acute teaching hospitals, adult, psychiatric and age-related healthcare on one site. The Hospital has 450 adult beds with over 3,500 people on staff and more than 50 different nationalities represented. The Hospital is a provider of local, regional and national specialties. It is also a national urology center, the second largest provider of dialysis services in the country, a regional orthopedic trauma center and a designated trauma unit.

TUH is one of the two main academic teaching hospitals of Trinity College Dublin - specializing in the training and professional development of staff in areas such as medicine nursing, health and social care professionals, emergency medicine and surgery, amongst many others. TUH is part of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group which serves a population of over 1.2 million across seven counties.

TUH Vision and Values
The vision of the Hospital is “People Caring for People to Live Better Lives” through excellent health outcomes supported by evidenced based practice, positive patient and staff experience in an empowering and caring environment. A culture of innovation and quality improvement in everything we do.
Our TUH CARE values – for patients, their families, our community and staff are:

• Collaborate – together and with our academic and care partners
• Achieve – our goals, positive outcomes and wellbeing
• Respect – for patients, each other and our environment
• Equity – for patients and staff

At TUH we view our staff as our most valuable asset and every member of the Team is valued equally. We recognise that a skilled, satisfied and motivated workforce is a prerequisite to high quality care.

A full overview of TUH is available on www.tuh.ie/about us

Purpose of the role:
HIPE is a health information system designed to collect demographic, clinical and administrative information on discharges and deaths from acute hospitals nationally.
HIPE Clinical Coders extract the relevant information from the Patient’s Medical Record and translate this information into alpha-numeric code. The coding classification used is the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems Australian Modification Tenth Revision (ICD-10-AM) and The Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI). The Clinical Coder performs an essential function in providing quality, accurate, and uniform medical information and greatly contributes to the continuous growth of medical knowledge. In addition HIPE Data is used by the Healthcare Pricing Office (HPO) to fund Hospitals through the Activity Based Funding (ABF) Process.
As part of the introduction of ABF the HPO has identified the need to recruit Clinical Coders and to develop a Career Structure for Clinical Coders. A review of the Irish HIPE System has been completed by Pavilion Health (Australia). Tallaght Hospital implement the recommendations of this review which pertain to Tallaght Hospital.