# Admissions Officer - Vascular Surgery

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Colchester General Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Appointments administrator
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25760.00 to £27476.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-25T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-19T13:46:40.528Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8377751
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8377751?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.esneft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Admissions Officer within the Vascular Surgery Unit at Colchester General Hospital.

We are looking for a Admissions Officer to join the Vascular Surgery Department, you will provide consistent provision of comprehensive and efficient secretarial/ administrative support.

You must possess excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills including excellent keyboard skills and a good working knowledge of Microsoft. You must have the ability to work under pressure with a flexible approach to workloads, delivering excellent patient care.

Interviews will take place on Friday, 30th October 2026.

### Main duties of the job

Manage, in conjunction with the Consultant and the speciality, the waiting list and admissions to ensure that:

- Patients are admitted in accordance with their clinical priority
- Routine patients are admitted strictly in wait time order, as listed, on Patient Target Lists (PTL)
- Ensure that patients are booked on to appropriate operating lists and that the lists are filled to an agreed profile,
- Due attention is paid to efficient utilisation of bed of surgery usage.
- Ensure all patients cancelled on the day of surgery - Patient Charter Cancellations - are re-booked in accordance with government policy.
- To check the waiting lists on Portal daily. Plan and maintain the waiting list, in accordance with Trust procedure, highlighting problems to the Consultant speciality and Support Manager, as appropriate.
- To be the first point of contact for patients seeking to agree their admission date and to offer admission dates that are strictly 'in turn' and in keeping with clinical prioritisation.

### 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

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Confidentiality and Data Protection
- Customer service

**Desirable**

- NHS Knowledge of relevant work area

### Experience

**Essential**

- Previous administrative role
- Working collaboratively as part of a team
- Advanced IT Systems including - Microsoft Office
- Experience of communicating with a range of people both within and external to the organisation

**Desirable**

- Experience within relevant work area
- Experience of working with members of the public
- Supervision/co-ordination of other team members

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- GCSE grade 5/C or equivalent in English and Maths
- NVQ level 3 in administration/secretarial or equivalent experience

## Documents

- [staff networks (pdf, 252.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2724)
- [dbs information (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1262)
- [esneft values and behaviours (pdf, 74.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2146)
- [value of joining nhs pension (pdf, 125.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2404)
- [job description & person specification (pdf, 176.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10706234)
- [admin & digital apprenticeships - esneft 2026 (pdf, 3.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2452)

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