• Implements and continuously develops onboarding for all new Clinical Documentation Specialists (CDSs) for mentoring and education needs. • Leads and coordinates training of new CDI staff. • Collaborate with CDI leadership and other clinicians to facilitate the ongoing relevance of department specific orientation content, educational materials, and training programs/resources. • Formulates customized education to other healthcare professionals based on audience and areas of opportunity. • Interacts with medical staff members, directors, and senior hospital leadership staff as needed. • Makes recommendations for documentation improvement and queries to capture care and intensity of services as supported within the medical record documentation. • Demonstrates understanding of complications, co-morbidities, severity of illness, risk of mortality, case mix index, secondary diagnoses, and the impact of procedures on the final Diagnosis Related Group (DRG). • Educate members of the CDI team and providers on the review functions within the CDI program to meet and maintain enterprise goals and objectives, regulatory compliance, policies and procedures and standard operating procedures. • Assist with the development and maintenance of system CDI policies and procedures. • Remain current on CDI guidelines and practices. • Ensures program compliance by following coding guidelines and coding clinics. • Remains current with coding information to ensure accuracy of codes assigned based on documentation. • Serve as a key resource for accurate and ethical documentation standards and regulatory requirements. • Demonstrates the ability to draft compliant queries as endorsed by AHIMA and ACDIS. • Performs medical record reviews for completeness and accuracy in capturing severity of illness, risk of mortality and clinical validation. • Determines if professionally recognized standards of quality care are met. • Audits CDSs as needed to ensure that system objectives are met. • Develops educational plan for individual CDS based on Quality Audit (QA) outcomes. • Provides 1:1 mentoring as needed. • Oversees and coordinates SMART related education, meetings, and requirements for the department and as instructed by the SMART department.