Medical Workforce Lead (Medicine)

Job description

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a Medical Workforce Leadwithin the Medicine and Emergency Care Group at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.

We are looking for an experienced and proactive MedicalWorkforce Lead to provide strategic and operational leadership across medicalworkforce planning, rostering, temporary staffing, absence management and jobplanning. Working closely with clinical, operational, HR and financecolleagues, you will identify workforce risks, improve processes and delivercost-effective solutions that support high-quality patient care.

You will lead the management of medical rosters and agencybookings, oversee divisional rota coordinators, support recruitment ande-rostering, and help deliver savings through reduced temporary staffingexpenditure. You will also ensure sickness absence is managed consistently andcompassionately, and support effective consultant job planning.

Main duties of the job

Liaisewith the Care Group Management Team and Directorate Managers to supporteffective medical workforce management; identify resourcing risks and developproject plans and strategies to improve efficiency and mitigate risk

Leadeffective roster management, including oversight of temporary medical staffing,to ensure value for money and delivery of the Cost Productivity ImprovementProgramme (CIP) through reduced agency usage

Initiateand implement processes that improve efficiency and compliance, and reduceexpenditure. Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to deliveran excellent service to internal customers, providing support to other teamsduring periods of peak demand as required.

Leadthe management of sickness absence for the medical workforce, ensuringreturn-to-work discussions are completed and, where trigger points are met,formal action is initiated in a timely manner. This requires close working withClinical Leads, Educational Supervisors, Directorate Managers and HR advisers

Workwith colleagues to develop preventative and targeted support to address areasof high sickness absence, linking with workplace wellbeing initiatives topromote attendance

Managethe Rota Co-ordinators

Provideadvice and guidance to the Care Group on resident doctor management, includinginduction.

Supportthe Care Group Medical Leadership with job planning.

Workwith the e-rostering team to support delivery of medical rostering across theCare Group.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a largeacute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acuteservices to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to alarger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services fromthree sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and ourcaring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centredcare. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people towork with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin oureveryday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewiseaccreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible workingwithin our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring aDBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in SupportingInformation section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Liaisewith the Care Group Management Team and Directorate Managers to supporteffective medical workforce management; identify resourcing risks and developproject plans and strategies to improve efficiency and mitigate risk.

Leadeffective roster management, including oversight of temporary medical staffing,to ensure value for money and delivery of the Cost Productivity ImprovementProgramme (CIP) through reduced agency usage.

Initiateand implement processes that improve efficiency and compliance, and reduceexpenditure. Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to deliveran excellent service to internal customers, providing support to other teamsduring periods of peak demand as required.

Leadthe management of sickness absence for the medical workforce, ensuringreturn-to-work discussions are completed and, where trigger points are met,formal action is initiated in a timely manner. This requires close working withClinical Leads, Educational Supervisors, Directorate Managers and HR advisers.

Workwith colleagues to develop preventative and targeted support to address areasof high sickness absence, linking with workplace wellbeing initiatives topromote attendance (e.g., the Trusts Psychological Wellbeing Service).

Managethe rota co-ordinators.

Provideadvice and guidance to the Care Group on resident doctor management, includinginduction.

Supportthe Associate Chief Medical Officer with job planning.

Workwith the e-rostering team to support delivery of medical rostering across the CareGroup.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Liaisewith the Care Group Management Team and Directorate Managers to supporteffective medical workforce management; identify resourcing risks and developproject plans and strategies to improve efficiency and mitigate risk.

Leadeffective roster management, including oversight of temporary medical staffing,to ensure value for money and delivery of the Cost Productivity ImprovementProgramme (CIP) through reduced agency usage.

Initiateand implement processes that improve efficiency and compliance, and reduceexpenditure. Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to deliveran excellent service to internal customers, providing support to other teamsduring periods of peak demand as required.

Leadthe management of sickness absence for the medical workforce, ensuringreturn-to-work discussions are completed and, where trigger points are met,formal action is initiated in a timely manner. This requires close working withClinical Leads, Educational Supervisors, Directorate Managers and HR advisers.

Workwith colleagues to develop preventative and targeted support to address areasof high sickness absence, linking with workplace wellbeing initiatives topromote attendance (e.g., the Trusts Psychological Wellbeing Service).

Managethe rota co-ordinators.

Provideadvice and guidance to the Care Group on resident doctor management, includinginduction.

Supportthe Associate Chief Medical Officer with job planning.

Workwith the e-rostering team to support delivery of medical rostering across the CareGroup.

Person Specification

Supporting Statement

Essential

• Please provide a covering statement here, setting out how you meet the requirements of the role and the drivers for your application. The Person Specification for this role can be found attached to this advert in the "Supporting Documents" section.

Person Specification
Supporting Statement

Essential

• Please provide a covering statement here, setting out how you meet the requirements of the role and the drivers for your application. The Person Specification for this role can be found attached to this advert in the "Supporting Documents" section.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

United Kingdom

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