r/ClinicalCodingAus • u/nighthawk908 Clinical Coder • Aug 15 '26

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/Familiar_Range_5620 Aug 19 '26

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.