Admissions CoordinatorNHS

Job summary

The Dame Clare Marx Building houses our elective orthopaedic centre (ESEOC) with a focus on elective orthopaedic surgery and day cases. The centre has eight laminar flow theatres, three wards, recovery facilities, and support services including radiology and EBME.

We are looking for an efficient, conscientious, well-motivated and enthusiastic Admissions Coordinator with the skills to provide dedicated clerical support to both the clinical and administrative teams.

In this role, you will assist clinical staff in delivering an effective booking service to our patients.

In addition to the Permanent post, we have 1 Full-Time, Fixed Term/Secondment post until 31 March 2026.

Main duties of the job

• Proactively managing the waiting times for individual patients and inpatient waiting lists to ensure national standards and KPIs are not breached
• Liaise with pre-operative assessment and ensure appointments are arranged with sufficient lead in time prior to surgery/procedure. To check with pre-operative assessment if the patient is not recorded as fit on for surgery, ensure that the consultant is aware of any potential delays that may affect the patient's operation date. If a patient requires further investigations prior to surgery ensure that these are chased up.
• Complete all administrative activities associated with theatre schedulers

Job description

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

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 thatTime Mattersto 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.

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