Medical Staffing Advisor

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Medical Staffing Advisor to join the Medical Staffing team at UHLG.

For this role we are looking for candidates who have knowledge of medical terms and conditions that can provide expert advice and support to our medical workforce. You will be a key link for divisional management teams in all matters relating to our medical workforce.

Please note this vacancy may close early once sufficient applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide a comprehensive expert and professional Medical HR service on all employment matters relating to medical staff employed at UHLG and will provide support to Divisional management teams in developing their medical workforce plans to ensure that a systematic approach is taken to the management and recruitment of their medical workforce to include Resident Doctor rotations, rostering and management of sickness absence.

The post holder will act as the first point of contact for managers and staff for all Medical HR queries, providing advice and a consistent, professional and effective human resource service in relation to medical staffing issues offering solutions to service users in accordance with Trust policy, employment law and agreed service levels.

You should have the ability to pro-actively support short and long term projects, be able to adjust to changing work environments whilst managing conflicting priorities.

In return you will be part of a well-supported friendly team where you will have the opportunity to help shape the Medical HR service at UHLG for the future.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Job responsibilities

1. Support with Medical Recruitment and participate in interview panels.
2. Support medical temporary staffing at site levels.
3. Participate and support with inductions.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• CIPD Qualification (Level 5) or equivalent experience.

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of working in an office environment at an operational level with some supervision but able to work on own initiative.
• Specialised Medical staffing experience and/or Generalist NHS HR experience.
• Experience of using Allocate software for monitoring of Resident Doctor rotas.
• Ability to work on own initiative and cope well under pressure.
• Experience of using HR and Payroll systems.

Knowledge

• Understanding of HR policy and best practice and Employment Law.
• Excellent knowledge of Resident Doctor Terms and Conditions of Service, in particular 2016 contract and New Deal.
• Excellent knowledge of WTD to enable rota work and monitoring compliance.

Skills

• Desire and ability to work effectively in a team.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiating and diplomatic skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively and confidently with all levels of staff.
• Ability to work to strict deadlines.
• Good attention to detail and high accuracy.
• Ability to manage and prioritise multiple and sometimes conflicting demands.

Other

• Maintain constructive team working relationships at all levels and with all disciplines in a team setting.
• Motivation and development of staff. Successful management of change within part of a complex organisation. Evidence of Performance Management.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.