Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Elective Admission Nurse Co-ordinator

The closing date is 16 October 2025

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced surgical nurse to join Ward 4B elective admissions.

The role supports elective activity, responsible for the coordination, planning, monitoring, and delivery of elective admissions across General Surgery, Urology, Breast, Bariatric, and ENT specialties. This role ensures patients are fully prepared for admission, supporting a safe and efficient journey through theatre and into post-operative recovery.

Working alongside the surgical and nursing teams in the Surgical unit, theatres, anaesthetics and pre-operative department, to ensure patients are safely admitted and discharged from the surgical unit.

Please note the job description and person specification is under AfC review.

Main duties of the job

Manage the elective admissions for inpatient and day case procedures. Ensuring patients have had necessary procedures and assessments prior to admission.

Working alongside the matron and operational services with bed allocation for elective admissions.

Reporting of any cancelled operations as per guidelines.

Acting as a point of contact for clinical teams in relation to elective admissions.

Communicating with patients on the day of admission, providing updates on bed allocation, place of theatre lists, and enforcing any preoperative instructions and expectations.

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.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

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

Details

Date posted

09 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

409-7487141

Job locations

Whiston Hospital

Warrington Road

Prescot

L35 5DR


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.

Advertising date: 9th October 2025

Closing date: 16th October 2025

Shortlisting date: 17th October 2025

Proposed Interview date: TBC

Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.

Advertising date: 9th October 2025

Closing date: 16th October 2025

Shortlisting date: 17th October 2025

Proposed Interview date: TBC

Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • 1st level Registered Nurse
  • Nursing Diploma or equivalent experience
  • Recognised teaching qualification - mentorship/ ENB 998.
  • Evidence of post registration study/development

Desirable

  • Recognised leadership qualification/training

Knowledge

Essential

  • Extensive experience acute surgical experience
  • Experience and evidence of quality improvement in patient care

Desirable

  • Extensive experience post registration

Skills

Essential

  • Evidence of effective organisational skills
  • Evidence of the ability to motivate team performance to achieve objectives
  • Professional role model
  • Evidence of commitment to service improvement
  • Evidence of leadership qualities
  • IT competency
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • 1st level Registered Nurse
  • Nursing Diploma or equivalent experience
  • Recognised teaching qualification - mentorship/ ENB 998.
  • Evidence of post registration study/development

Desirable

  • Recognised leadership qualification/training

Knowledge

Essential

  • Extensive experience acute surgical experience
  • Experience and evidence of quality improvement in patient care

Desirable

  • Extensive experience post registration

Skills

Essential

  • Evidence of effective organisational skills
  • Evidence of the ability to motivate team performance to achieve objectives
  • Professional role model
  • Evidence of commitment to service improvement
  • Evidence of leadership qualities
  • IT competency

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Whiston Hospital

Warrington Road

Prescot

L35 5DR


Employer's website

https://www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Whiston Hospital

Warrington Road

Prescot

L35 5DR


Employer's website

https://www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Matron General Surgery & Urology

Alison Powell

alison.powell@merseywestlancs.nhs.uk

07775403580

Details

Date posted

09 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

409-7487141

Job locations

Whiston Hospital

Warrington Road

Prescot

L35 5DR


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