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Main area
Administrator
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover, or a secondment opportunity if internal)
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
26 hours per week (To include weekends and bank holidays on rota basis)
Job ref
825-6495194-CORP
Employer
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Ludlow Hospital
Town
Ludlow
Salary
£24,071 - £25,674 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/08/2024 23:59

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Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust logo

Temporary Staffing Co-ordinator

NHS AfC: Band 3

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of £38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of £23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here-   https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list

https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements

Job overview

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is investing in the expansion of the Resourcing Department. We have a variety of exciting opportunities available within the team.

We are looking to recruit an Temporary Staffing Co-ordinator within our Temporary Staffing Team on a 12 months fixed-term/secondment contract, for 26 hours per week.

The post holder will assist the Team Lead in providing a comprehensive high quality temporary staffing and advisory service to all users of the Department over 7 days a week, 365 days of the year.

  • 26 hours per week.
  • To include weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.

Main duties of the job

You will be required to source staff to cover shifts using the processes within the Department utilising the pool of bank workers and booking Agency Workers, answering calls and deal with any workforce enquires and messages in a prompt, polite and efficient manner.

Part of your role in conjunction with the Temporary Staffing Officer, will be to assist the Team Lead to complete Agency Worker processes and collate data for reports.

Daily responsibilities will include general filing, printing, shredding, and photocopying associated with the team.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached the Job description and Person Specification for more details regarding this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to at least GCSE level or equivalent experience.
  • ECDL qualification or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Considerable experience of processing high volumes of bookings onto a Rostering system or equivalent.
  • Considerable experience of using a variety of software packages commonly used within an office environment.
  • Experience of accurate data input and working with a high attention to detail.
  • Experience of using and working knowledge of electronic rostering systems.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Good working knowledge of excel to be able to create and manipulate data.
  • Understanding of NHS temporary staffing processes and procedures.
  • Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work closely and effectively with staff at all levels of the organisation.
  • Able to appropriately update and inform managers and workers in accordance with the temporary staffing processes and procedures.
  • Ability to scan, copy and complete general administrative tasks to an accurate and consistently high standard.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerArmed Forces Covenant Bronze Award

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Claire Conway
Job title
Temporary Staffing Team Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01584 666069
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