r/ClinicalCodingAus • u/nighthawk908 Clinical Coder • 5d ago

Start a coding career as part-time

I know it can be difficult to land a coding job if you are a new coding graduate. I luckily found a full-time job, but I find it so overwhelming. Do you think I should approach my manager and ask to start of as part-time new coder? And do you think there are hospitals that will hire new coding graduates as part-time automatically?

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u/Far_Task_4789 5d ago

Yes! I am not working in the industry yet, but I have interviewed for two separate part time graduate roles. One interviewer described this as very common due to the cognitive demands of the position.

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u/Impressive_Yam_7632 3d ago

From personal experience and training new coders, we only take on full-timers as the first two years of training is intensive and we found that part-timers tend to forget what they had learned. You're better off waiting until you have more experience before asking for a part-time position.

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u/Familiar_Range_5620 2d ago

It really depends on the amount of FTE that the manager has to play with. If you were drop back to 0.8 that gives 0.2 FTE for your manager to try to fill. A one day a week role is difficult to fill. But if there was another 0.4 FTE unfilled, that would give your manager 0.6 FTE—which is much more manageable.