Orthopaedic Liaison Support

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 05 May 2024

Job summary

The Essex and Suffolk Elective Orthopaedic Centre at Colchester Hospital will be one of the largest centres of its kind in Europe. Delivering high volume and low complexity cases locally for the people we serve across our region.

We are looking for an Orthopaedic Liaison Support to join our brand new team.

Under the guidance & supervision of the Clinical Leads for Orthopaedics, you will assume daily responsibility for the ordering, receipting and monitoring of stock levels for all consumables, implants & loan equipment required to support the smooth & efficient running of both the Elective & Orthopaedic theatre services.

If you are a team player with excellent communication skills then we would love to hear from you.

The Dame Clare Marx Building that will house our elective orthopaedic centre (ESEOC) opens in 2024 with a focus on elective orthopaedic surgery and day cases. The centre will have eight laminar flow theatres, three wards, recovery facilities, and support services including radiology and EBME.

For more information, please see the link for our Page Tiger below:

https://esneft.pagetiger.com/gbhtm/1

Main duties of the job

  • Provide a supportive role to all members of the theatre team in the delivery of patient care
  • Support Orthopaedic liaison to oversee the availability of trust standard Orthopaedic instrumentation and prosthesis for the list; ensure the correct and adequate range is available. Provide feedback to the orthopaedic liaison when potential problems occur.
  • Liaise closely with staff in the Sterile Services Unit as directed by the orthopaedic Liaison regarding instrumentation requiring a speedy 'turn around'. Advise Orthopaedic liaison if conflict is anticipated.
  • Support ordering and maintaining agreed stock levels for all owned & consigned Orthopaedic prosthesis.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

Date posted

19 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£22,383 a year £22,383 per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

432-HR127-24

Job locations

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Working collaboratively as part of a team

Desirable

  • Experience as a Theatre Healthcare Assistant ideally within Elective Orthopaedics

Knowledge

Essential

  • Customer service

Desirable

  • Knowledge of stock ordering and stock maintenance

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good literacy and numeracy skills
  • Good standard of written & verbal communication
  • Basic IT skills

Desirable

  • Advanced mathematics
  • Advanced IT skills
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Working collaboratively as part of a team

Desirable

  • Experience as a Theatre Healthcare Assistant ideally within Elective Orthopaedics

Knowledge

Essential

  • Customer service

Desirable

  • Knowledge of stock ordering and stock maintenance

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good literacy and numeracy skills
  • Good standard of written & verbal communication
  • Basic IT skills

Desirable

  • Advanced mathematics
  • Advanced IT skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL


Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL


Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Theatre Matron

Heidi Killett

heidi.killett@esneft.nhs.uk

Date posted

19 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£22,383 a year £22,383 per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

432-HR127-24

Job locations

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL


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