About this role
Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for a Medical Workforce Lead within the Medicine and Emergency Care Group at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
We are looking for an experienced and proactive Medical Workforce Lead to provide strategic and operational leadership across medical workforce planning, rostering, temporary staffing, absence management and job planning. Working closely with clinical, operational, HR and finance colleagues, you will identify workforce risks, improve processes and deliver cost-effective solutions that support high-quality patient care.
You will lead the management of medical rosters and agency bookings, oversee divisional rota coordinators, support recruitment and e-rostering, and help deliver savings through reduced temporary staffing expenditure. You will also ensure sickness absence is managed consistently and compassionately, and support effective consultant job planning.
Main duties of the job
Liaise with the Care Group Management Team and Directorate Managers to support effective medical workforce management; identify resourcing risks and develop project plans and strategies to improve efficiency and mitigate risk
Lead effective roster management, including oversight of temporary medical staffing, to ensure value for money and delivery of the Cost Productivity Improvement Programme (CIP) through reduced agency usage
Initiate and implement processes that improve efficiency and compliance, and reduce expenditure. Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to deliver an excellent service to internal customers, providing support to other teams during periods of peak demand as required.
Lead the management of sickness absence for the medical workforce, ensuring return-to-work discussions are completed and, where trigger points are met, formal action is initiated in a timely manner. This requires close working with Clinical Leads, Educational Supervisors, Directorate Managers and HR advisers
Work with colleagues to develop preventative and targeted support to address areas of high sickness absence, linking with workplace wellbeing initiatives to promote attendance
Manage the Rota Co-ordinators
Provide advice and guidance to the Care Group on resident doctor management, including induction.
Support the Care Group Medical Leadership with job planning.
Work with the e-rostering team to support delivery of medical rostering across the Care Group.
About us
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday 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 Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
DBS Checks and Costs
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Job description Job responsibilities
Liaise with the Care Group Management Team and Directorate Managers to support effective medical workforce management; identify resourcing risks and develop project plans and strategies to improve efficiency and mitigate risk.
Lead effective roster management, including oversight of temporary medical staffing, to ensure value for money and delivery of the Cost Productivity Improvement Programme (CIP) through reduced agency usage.
Initiate and implement processes that improve efficiency and compliance, and reduce expenditure. Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to deliver an excellent service to internal customers, providing support to other teams during periods of peak demand as required.
Lead the management of sickness absence for the medical workforce, ensuring return-to-work discussions are completed and, where trigger points are met, formal action is initiated in a timely manner. This requires close working with Clinical Leads, Educational Supervisors, Directorate Managers and HR advisers.
Work with colleagues to develop preventative and targeted support to address areas of high sickness absence, linking with workplace wellbeing initiatives to promote attendance (e.g., the Trusts Psychological Wellbeing Service).
Manage the rota co-ordinators.
Provide advice and guidance to the Care Group on resident doctor management, including induction.
Support the Associate Chief Medical Officer with job planning.
Work with the e-rostering team to support delivery of medical rostering across the Care Group.
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
Employer's website https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)