Operational Coordinator - ENT & Oral Surgery

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 09 May 2025

Job summary

Do you thrive on a challenge? Are you methodical with the drive to succeed?

An opportunity has arisen to join the ENT & Oral Surgery Team at Colchester hospital as an Operational Co-ordinator, responsible for the co-ordination of the service.

This is a rewarding role ensuring that our services are safely covered over a 24/7 period by working closely with specialities and members of the clinical and administrative teams.

This opportunity will allow you to play a major role in the continuing development of service delivery for the benefit of our patients where care and compassion are central to everything we do.

You will have the opportunity to further develop your operational and management skills in a supportive and innovative atmosphere.

Please note, this is a fixed term/secondment position until 31st December 2025. Internal candidates will be offered a secondment only.

Main duties of the job

As an Operational Coordinator; you will be responsible for the day to day management of a number of key operational aspects including primarily the co-ordination of the Divisional rotas and medical resource.

You will have line management responsibilities for our administrative colleagues; highlighting any issues to the Service Manager.

You will be responsible for ensuring that day to day activity runs smoothly, liaising with multiple stakeholders both within and externally to the Trust.

You will ideally have experience within a healthcare setting. You will also need to be a skilled communicator with dogged determination, and excellent skills in the application of MS Office; and EXCEL.

Whilst we are ideally looking for someone with relevant experience an individual with demonstrable transferable skills would be considered.

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 one of the largest NHS organisations in England, 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.

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Date posted

29 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

7 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

432-HR141-25

Job locations

Colchester

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

  • oPrevious experience of managing staff
  • oWorking to short time scales and meeting deadlines
  • oWorking in a multidisciplinary environment

Desirable

  • oPrevious experience of managing staff within the NHS.
  • oPrevious medical secretary experience.

Qualifications

Essential

  • oManagement/Business/Administration degree or proven management experience at equivalent level
  • oLeadership courses/ qualification or commitment to work towards

Desirable

  • oPrince 2 or project management course

Knowledge

Essential

  • oWider knowledge of DOH and NHS
  • oKnowledge of performance management

Desirable

  • oNHS IT systems
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • oPrevious experience of managing staff
  • oWorking to short time scales and meeting deadlines
  • oWorking in a multidisciplinary environment

Desirable

  • oPrevious experience of managing staff within the NHS.
  • oPrevious medical secretary experience.

Qualifications

Essential

  • oManagement/Business/Administration degree or proven management experience at equivalent level
  • oLeadership courses/ qualification or commitment to work towards

Desirable

  • oPrince 2 or project management course

Knowledge

Essential

  • oWider knowledge of DOH and NHS
  • oKnowledge of performance management

Desirable

  • oNHS IT systems

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.

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester

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

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL


Employer's website

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


For questions about the job, contact:

Assistant General Manager

Karen Grove

karen.grove@esneft.nhs.uk

Date posted

29 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

7 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

432-HR141-25

Job locations

Colchester

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL


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