Medical Workforce Capacity Manager

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Working collaboratively and proactively with a wide range of stakeholders across the organisation including, Senior and Executive Medical staff, Workforce Business Partners, Finance, Medical Education and the Medical Attraction, Recruitment and Transactional Teams, the Medical Workforce Capacity plays a unique and pivotal role in ensuring that our Medical Workforce (permanent and temporary) is deployed effectively across the Trust.

High on the agenda will be supporting the Trust in delivering its key priorities including control of locum use and cost reduction and contributing to the delivery of key objectives within the medical workforce action plan.

Maternity leave cover - 1 year contract

Main duties of the job

You'll manage and drive the day-to-day relationship between the Trust and our agency provider for Medical Staff, troubleshooting problems as they occur, ensuring that the agency delivers agreed targets whilst maintaining good relations. You will liaise with our Clinical Management teams across the organisation and provide constructive challenge and creative solutions to locum management and staff deployment issues within Medical terms and conditions.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to, or lead the development of further options for temporary medical staffing by working on projects such as the development of our Medical Staff Bank and continuing to improve our rostering capacity and visibility. You will work with the Chief Medical Officers and Finance colleagues to maintain the medical workforce establishment ensuring that Trust's resources are spent effectively and posts are funded.

You will be responsible for managing a small team and giving oversight to the core tools and processes that support the medical workforce including rostering, compliance with Resident Doctors contract, maintaining senior medical on call rotas, management of the temporary medical workforce and providing regular reporting to the Executive Medical Officer, Trust Executive and the ICB. A key relationship will be with attraction and recruitment colleagues to ensure their activity is aligned to support the removal of locums.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone. If as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team -- detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree level qualification in a relevant discipline or equivalent medical staffing experience
• Specialist knowledge of the temporary staffing agenda gained through a post graduate qualification or relevant experience

Experience

• Experience of managing junior doctors rotas and of national and local requirements, especially GoSW
• Knowledge of Medical Terms and Conditions
• Experience of translating and analysing data and information into business/patient focused objectives and initiatives
• Working in a collaborative multidisciplinary environment where relationship and network building is essential
• Ability to engage and build rapport with unfamiliar areas that may be resistant to change
• Experience in understanding the temporary staffing agenda
• Competence in holding external contractors to account on service standards
• Able to write clear reports and provide data on temporary staffing usage to senior management within an organisation
• Able to demonstrate competence in using spreadsheets to provide formal reports that will be supplied to external regulators (NHS Improvement)
• A sound understanding of the NHS Improvement rules on agency spending and how this affects an NHS Trust

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.

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hawthorn Lodge

Moorgreen Hospital, Botley Road, West End

£46,148 to £52,809 a year based on full time hours

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

1 year

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

348-CORP-6218

Job locations

Hawthorn Lodge

Moorgreen Hospital, Botley Road, West End