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Job overview

The Medical Workforce team offers a comprehensive service, from advertising vacancies to coordinating doctors in training and medical student programmes. The Medical Workforce team are responsible for the co-ordination of all HR matters in relation to medical and dental terms and conditions including recruitment, daily rostering, payroll, doctors in training rotations, medical student placements and the sourcing of bank and agency staff. This role will also provide basic and routine HR advice relating to national and local policy and processes.

The post holder will be working in an integrated skill mix team that includes a Head of Medical Workforce, Medical Workforce Advisors and Medical Workforce Co-Ordinator. The Job Planning and Medical Rostering Advisor will be the lead for the co-ordination and administration of both job planning and the medical rosters across the trust. This is an exciting opportunity to implement a number of technology solutions to enhance the daily working lives of our medical and dental workforce.

Main duties of the job

Job Planning:

-          to co-ordinate the annual medical and dental job planning programme in collaboration with the Medical Director

-          to ensure that all medical and dental colleagues are fully trained in the use of the electronic eJobPlan software

-          to ensure that any changes made to job plans are implemented with payroll

-          to attend the Job Planning Consistency Committee meetings as a representative for the Medical Workforce team

Rostering:

-          to work closely with the Head of Medical Workforce in creating and allocating the doctors in training to the appropriate rosters for each junior doctor rotation.

-          to ensure the most up to date rota templates are compliant within the eRota compliance software in-line with the national junior doctor contract.

-          to oversee all medical and dental rotas including senior medics and dentists and in doing so, notify clinical managers when gaps arise, both short and long term, and liaise with the relevant Medical Workforce Advisor to ensure cover arrangements are put in place

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.