AMD Co-ordinator - FTCNHS

Job summary

Maternity cover until May 2027

To co-ordinate the Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) service including management of new referrals and follow up appointments ensuring the capture of data for audit and Patient Related Outcome Measurements (PROM's)

Responsible for ensuring optimum use of clinic and injection lists, escalating when capacity is required.

Please note the job description and person specification are subject to change as per AfC review.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for overseeing the AMD appointment system scheduling new and follow up assessment and treatment appointments, managing the case load and ensuring patients are informed of their appointment and other relevant information.
• Be the point of contact for patients, consultants, nursing staff and managerial staff in regard to the AMD service
• Identify capacity and demand issues and ensure clinical and managerial colleagues are aware and action.
• Request any changes as required for letters, clinic, theatres and consultants via Pas Admin
• Responsible for the co-ordination of the treatment rooms / theatre availability for injections
• Ensure the treatment plan on Medisight coincides with the information the AMD co-ordinator has received and highlight any conflicting information to the clinicians
• Establish and maintain effective communication with the hospital pharmacy over pharmaceutical supplies.
• Undertake project planning / audits to ensure AMD service needs and targets are met.
• To monitor, collect, collate, evaluate and report progress of AMD service.

Job description

Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached.

Advertising Date: 24th September 2026

Closing Date: 1st October 2026

Shortlisting Date: 2nd October 2026

Proposed Interview date: TBC

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high number of applications is reached.

About us

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.