Job summary
Employer heading
Lead Rota Coordinator
Band 5
Job overview
A full time opportunity has arisen to join our team of Lead Rota Coordinators in the Medicine and Emergency Care division at MTW.
To be successful in this challenging role, you will have excellent communication, organisation and problem solving skills with the ability to work with a positive and solution focused attitude. This will enable our team to ensure effective rotas are in place to deliver a safe, efficient and effective operational clinical services.
Main duties of the job
To support the operational day to day running of the service including the design and implementation of systems and processes to achieve this, in particular:
· To monitor and co-ordinate all medical / nursing rotas across the Directorate
· To co-ordinate, log and monitor all types of leave for medical/ nursing staff
· To act as the first point of contact for issues relating to Junior Doctors or nurses (e.g. annual leave, study leave, shift swaps, locum / bank cover).
· To compile absence spread sheets and conduct back to work interviews with Jnr doctors.
· Responsible for maintaining Patchwork Roster and Patchwork Bank applications
Working for our organisation
MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.
We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.
In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at Standard Level.
At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.
We support our staff with disabilities to ensure they have the adjustments they need to be the best they can be in the workplace. Collaborating with Access to Work means that our staff are assessed by experts in the workplace and we ensure that their recommendations are implemented as quickly as possible. You can find out more here: Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Interview Date: 5th August 2024
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Good standard of General Education
- • Record of continuous professional and managerial development
- • Recent working knowledge of Microsoft Office package
Desirable criteria
- • Educated to a degree level or equivalent professional experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of line managements or supervision of staff
- • Previous NHS experience
Desirable criteria
- Basic understanding of NHS terms and conditions for Doctors and other staff
- • Databases and computerised records eg: Health Roster, Patchwork
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- • Negotiation, influencing and persuasion skills
- • Professional attitude, approachable and enthusiastic
- • To be able to understand and implement working rotas
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to deal with distressing circumstances
- • Assertiveness and diplomacy, when dealing with difficult situations
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gemma Colyer
- Job title
- Deputy General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07874 882903
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