# Orthopaedic Liaison Support > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/orthopaedic-liaison-support/10ffc6ab-9efd-4b58-bb4c-1e3adcffb610 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/orthopaedic-liaison-support/10ffc6ab-9efd-4b58-bb4c-1e3adcffb610.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Colchester - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Grade:** Band 2 - **Salary:** £25,272 £23,615 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-03T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-28T14:42:54.584Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Colchester/East_Suffolk_North_Essex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Orthopaedic_Liaison_Support/Orthopaedic_Liaison_Support-v8043555 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8043555?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.esneft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Essex and Suffolk Elective Orthopaedic Centre at Colchester Hospital is 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 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 houses our elective orthopaedic centre (ESEOC) and focuses 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. ### 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. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description ## Job Details The Essex and Suffolk Elective Orthopaedic Centre at Colchester Hospital is 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 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 houses our elective orthopaedic centre (ESEOC) and focuses 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. ## Job Description 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. ## Responsibilities For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Customer service **Desirable** - Knowledge of stock ordering and stock maintenance ### Experience **Essential** - Working collaboratively as part of a team **Desirable** - Experience as a Theatre Healthcare Assistant ideally within Elective Orthopaedics ### Qualifications **Essential** - Good literacy and numeracy skills - Good standard of written & verbal communication - Basic IT skills **Desirable** - Advanced mathematics - Advanced IT skills ## Documents - [staff networks (pdf, 230.1kb)](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, 384.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10332196) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.