Instrument Co-Ordinator

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Instrument Coordinator to oversee day-to-day logistical management of all surgical instruments used across theatres, ensuring timely availability for operations. You will order new tools, supervise repairs, liaise with Sterile Services, and coordinate instrument transport between Broadgreen, Royal, Aintree, and other sites.

The role requires strong communication and safety standards.

Qualifications

• High standards of quality and safety, with excellent communication skills.
• Experience in instrument logistics or hospital equipment management is desirable.
• Strong organisational abilities with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day logistical management of surgical instruments across theatres.
• Order new instruments and oversee repairs/replacements to ensure availability.
• Coordinate with Sterile Services Decontamination and instrument coordinators across sites.
• Ensure broken or defective instruments are repaired or replaced promptly.
• Manage records of instrument repairs and loan instrument usage.
• Flex across Broadgreen, Royal, Aintree sites as required.
• Operate a Monday–Friday 8am–4pm shift.

Skills

Logistics coordination

Communication skills

Inventory management

Attention to detail

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• To provide day to day logistical management of all the Surgical instruments, used with the Trust, which directly contributes to the smooth and efficient running of the Operating Theatres and quality patient care by ensuring that all surgical instruments, used with the various theatres areas are made available for use in a timely manner.
• To order new instruments and oversee the repair and replacement of instruments, to ensure instruments are always available and in exceptional working order.
• High standards of quality and safety and excellent communication skills are vital to this role.
• Daily communication with the Sterile Services Decontamination team to identify instruments needed as a priority or next day use.
• Daily communication with other instrument coordinators within the other hospital theatre areas to arrange transport of instrument between the hospitals on an ad hoc basis and their return following use.
• To oversee that any surgical instruments which are broken, blunt or defective are sent off to specialist repairs companies and following their return are put back immediately into circulation without delay.
• To receive "Loaned In" surgical instruments for specialist surgery and ensure these are sent to the Decontamination unit for cleaning, sterilization and returned ready for use.
• Maintain records on instrument repairs, and activity of both Trusts owned and loan instrument use.
• Although based at Broadgreen & Royal it is required flexibility to work across all sites - RLH, B/G & Aintree, covering for Staff Leave.
• Post is a weekly Monday to Friday shift 8am - 4pm.

About this Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Contact for Further Details / Informal Visits

Name: Deborah Evans
Job title: Quality manager
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Telephone number: 0151 706 2111