Assistant Medical Workforce Manager Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity until March 2026.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Medical Workforce Manager (Business Services) to join a supportive and dynamic Medical Workforce team.

The position is well suited to an individual who has gained experience ideally within Medical Workforce, HR, recruitment or temporary staffing. Previous working within agency recruitment would also be advantageous.

Ideally, you will have knowledge of Medical and Dental terms and conditions to enable you to provide sound advice, support, and guidance to a wide range of colleagues. Additionally, you will be able to confidently build relationships with a range of colleagues and peers internally and externally, enjoy a varied workload, and can deliver results within set targets and strict deadlines.

We fully support hybrid working and therefore after an initial period of training, a combination of working from home and office-based working can be arranged.

To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUHs PRIDE values of People focused, Respect, Dedication, Integrity and Excellence.

If you are considering applying for this post on a secondment basis, please discuss with your Line Manager prior to applying to ascertain whether this could be supported.

The Medical Workforce team is responsible for ensuring the timely recruitment of medical staff of all grades, dealing with resident doctors on rotations, carrying out an effective temporary staffing function, and providing expert knowledge and advice on all aspects of Medical and Dental Terms and Conditions of Service.

Main Duties Include:

1. Providing day to day management and oversight of the Medical Workforce Department (Business Services).
2. Providing high quality innovative advice and solutions aimed at ensuring the Trust utilises its temporary staffing guidelines for both the Medical temporary workforce and agency cover in line with the NHSI guidelines supporting the ongoing reduction in external temporary staffing spend.
3. Providing operational support to Medical Workforce Manager, the Medical Workforce Team and other Trust Managers.
4. To be responsible for the operational day to day management of the Temporary Staffing Team and supervise the daily administrative processes undertaken by the Medical Workforce team in relation to temporary staffing.
5. To provide key support for improvement projects and identified knowledge/skill gaps across the Medical Workforce Team.
6. Overseeing the recruitment of all Temporary Staff to the internal Medical Staff bank in line with Trust Policies. Ensure that up to date and accurate records are kept of all Medical Temporary Staff both internal and external.
7. To ensure that the process for securing locums (internal and agency) is kept relevant and in line with changing market developments.
8. Postholder required to understand the complexities of the various Junior Doctor rotations to ensure that gaps are identified, and appropriate action is taken to minimise the effect on the service and rota compliance.
9. Maintain detailed up to date knowledge of new initiatives affecting medical staff and contribute to guidance documents where necessary.
10. Investigating complaints relating to temporary staffing use in accordance with relevant policy, escalating to senior management where appropriate.
11. To ensure compliance with legislation across the organisation around the use of bank and agency worker.

Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.

Please note that this advertised position, which is part of occupation code 4141 does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa (this includes if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change employer). The Trust would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

This advert closes on Monday 7 Apr 2025.