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Medical Rostering Advisor
Grade
Band 5
Contract
12 months (Fixed Term)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
418-HR2197-EH
Employer
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Luton & Dunstable Hospital
Town
Luton
Salary
£28,407 - £34,581 Per Annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
24/07/2024 23:59

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Medical Rostering Advisor

Band 5

Job overview

The Medical Rostering Advisor will work as a member of the Medical Rostering Team to provide helpdesk support and operational implementation of the e-Rostering system for medical areas within and across the Trust.

The postholder will work with Trust clinicians and managers in order to implement and support the e-rostering system to its full potential within the service, ensuring that the unit is working within its financial budgets, producing safe rosters that fulfil the demands of the service and reflecting staffs work patterns as required.
 

 

Main duties of the job

·         To facilitate specific work programmes as delegated by the Medical Rostering Manager, ensuring that key milestones and outputs within the project plan are achieved and risks are identified and managed.

·         Using knowledge on terms and conditions (both Junior Doctor and Consultant Contracts) set up, implement and maintain a new e-rostering system to meet the requirements of the Trust, managers, clinicians and users.

·         Provide technical support; answering queries received in person, via phone or e-mail.

·         Ensure all rosters are finalised ready for payroll extract, to ensure that the payroll file can be run and staff are paid on time

·         Offer advice and guidance for service redesign using system knowledge and expertise to interrogate potential outcomes

 

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton.  Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.

Our Values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Medical Rostering Specialist will be responsible for ensuring all modules of the e-rostering system are implemented across all staff 
groups within the Trust, including medics, and across all sites, according to the agreed project plan and within budget under the jurisdiction of the Medical 
Rostering Manager using using knowledge on terms and conditions (both Junior Doctor and Consultant 
Contracts) set up, implement and maintain a new e-rostering system to meet the requirements of the Trust, managers, clinicians and users.

Please see the attached JD for a full overview of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

 

 

 

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Degree level qualification or experience
  • Experience in Medical Rostering
  • Experience of database administration
  • Experience of dealing with difficult situations in face to face, over the telephone and e-mail
  • Experience running and maintaining a helpdesk
  • Experience in working with an e-Rostering system, preferably HealthRoster/Optima
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of working with IT systems e.g. ESR
  • Experience of generating and analysing reports and documents which contain complex data

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Excellent understanding of working regulations and guidelines e.g. EWTD, 2016 Junior Doctor Contract or the Consultant Contract
  • Detailed understanding Junior Doctor Rota’s and Consultant Scheduling
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office products including Excel and ability to produce and deliver management information
  • Knowledge and previous training of RLDatix (Allocate) Rostering products and solutions
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of Change management methodology
  • Understanding and knowledge of ESR data and interoperability with Optima
  • An understanding of information flows within the NHS

Personal Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work effectively as part of a team dealing with people and situations sensitively and appropriately, remaining calm and polite at all time
  • Excellent planning and organisational skills while responding to tight deadlines
  • Ability to manage own workload with minimum supervision and use own initiative
  • Ability to interpret and explain complex issues in a logical and practical manner
  • Excellent customer service skills and an understanding of how these contribute to effective and efficient practices.
  • Ability to learn IT systems quickly
  • Ability to make logical, well-reasoned decisions from a range of complex facts and opinions, some of which may contradict others, in order to arrive at solutions to satisfy the needs of the business
  • Self-motivating and act on own initiative, able to work independently
  • Proven analytical skills to gather, interpret and analyse complex data and system fault

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Care quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024Employer with Heart

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Fabian Samuels
Job title
Medical Rostering Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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