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ICD-11 Medical Coding Coordinator

Scottish Government OGD62 open roles

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  6. 59.0%60 days
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Job Description

Are you looking for a role where you can use your coordination and organisational skills while building relationships with a wide range of people?

The ICD-11 Medical Coding Coordinator post sits within our Vital Events Branch, part of the Statistical Services Division in National Records of Scotland (NRS). The branch is responsible for the coding and analysis of data relating to all births, deaths, marriages, civil partnerships and stillbirths registered in Scotland.

The Coding Team ensures that each event is accurately coded and classified in accordance with World Health Organisation (WHO) standards. Their work underpins the production of high-quality official statistics that inform policy development, academic research and public understanding of Scotland’s population and vital events.

You will have line management responsibilities and will oversee and coordinate a diverse team recording cause of death for the people of Scotland. You will be responsible for leading on the coordination of ICD-11 implementation related activities within the team and supporting others in planning and overseeing quality and accuracy checks and initiating corrective action where required.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

  • Line manage & Lead coordinator of ICD-11 implementation
  • Oversee and support the coding of deaths which may include references to drugs using information from pathologists and procurator fiscal offices.
  • Plan and oversee quarterly and annual accuracy checks, ensuring these are completed within available capacity as well as carrying out End of Year medical coding checks
  • Use Statistical Analysis Software (SAS) to perform quarterly checks and corrections on complex, ad-hoc cause of death codes, editing SAS code where required.
  • Use SAS to create new quality assurance checks and identify problematic conditions and codes to replace manual quality assurance
  • Support the coding of Births, Marriages and Civil Partnerships.
  • Provide support for Register of Corrected Entries (RCE) enquiries, liaising with Registration Division, Registrars, Crown Office and relatives as needed.
  • Support daily cause of death coding using ICD-10, Vital Events System (VES) and IRIS software.

Qualifications

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.

Experience:

  1. Experience of managing a team within an analytical or service delivery environment.

Behaviours:

  1. Seeing the big picture – Level 2
  2. Making effective decisions – Level 2
  3. Changing and improving – Level 2
  4. Managing a quality Service – Level 2

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 1000 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.

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.

Vacancy closes at 23:59 on Wednesday 25 November.

If invited for further assessment, this will consist of an interview and presentation.

Assessments are scheduled for w/c 14 December 2026, however, this may be subject to change.

This role is open to internal candidates and Common citizenship organisations only.

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.

About us

National Records of Scotland (NRS) is Scotland’s record keeper. Our purpose is to collect, preserve and produce information about Scotland's people and history and make it available to inform current and future generations. We offer rewarding careers and employ people across Scotland in a wide range of professions and roles.

NRS is a Non-Ministerial Department of the Scottish Government & and our staff are part of the UK Civil Service, working for Ministers and senior stakeholders to deliver vital public services which improve the lives of the people of Scotland.

We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment along with a wide range of employee benefits. Find out more about what we offer.

As part of the UK Civil Service, we uphold the Civil Service Nationality Rules.

Working pattern

Our standard hours are 35 hours per week, we offer a range of flexible and hybrid working options depending on the needs of the role. If you have specific questions about the role you are applying for, please contact us.

Security checks

Successful candidates must complete the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), before they can be appointed. BPSS is comprised of four main pre-employment checks – Identity, Right to work, Employment History and a Criminal Record check (unspent convictions).

You can find out more about BPSS on the UK Government website, or read about the different levels of security checks in our Candidate Guide.

Equality statement

We are committed to equality and inclusion and we aim to recruit a diverse workforce that reflects the population of our nation.

Find out more about our commitment to diversity and how we offer and support recruitment adjustments for anyone who needs them.

Further information

Find out more about our organisation, what we offer staff members and how to apply on our Careers Website.

Read our Candidate Guide for further information on our recruitment and application processes.

For further information about this post, please contact Jack Reid at [email protected]

Apply before: 25/11/2026 (23:59). This role is open to internal candidates and Common Citizenship organisations only.

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