Job summary
- Main area
- Orthopaedic Liaison Support
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time - 37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 432-HR127-24
- Employer
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Colchester Hospital
- Town
- Colchester
- Salary
- £22,383 £22,383 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Orthopaedic Liaison Support
NHS AfC: Band 2
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships and staff benefits
Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of the ESNEFT’s core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
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:
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.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working collaboratively as part of a team
Desirable criteria
- Experience as a Theatre Healthcare Assistant ideally within Elective Orthopaedics
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Customer service
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of stock ordering and stock maintenance
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good literacy and numeracy skills
- Good standard of written & verbal communication
- Basic IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Advanced mathematics
- Advanced IT skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Heidi Killett
- Job title
- Theatre Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
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