Operational Coordinator - Women's Services

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

An opportunity has arisen to join the Womens division 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, including bed management and supporting with the flow of our patients through Colchester Hospital.

This is fixed term/secondment post until 31st December 2025.

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.

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

Please note, shortlisted candidates will need to complete an Excel skills test as part of the interview process.

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