Surgical Care Rota Co-ordinatorinOrmskirkinOrmskirkPUBLISHED FRI 17 JAN 2025
Operational responsibility allows for significant impact on patient care by ensuring proper medical staffing.
Opportunity to work closely with clinical teams and management, fostering collaboration and communication.
Involvement in maintaining compliance with national regulations, ensuring high standards in medical staffing.
Varied role with responsibilities including coordination of short, medium, and long-term medical cover solutions.
Ability to engage with a wide range of healthcare professionals, enhancing networking and professional development.
Part of a reputable organization recognized for outstanding care and workplace satisfaction, enhancing job stability.
A workplace committed to continuous improvement and staff development through training and support.
The Surgical Care Rota Co-ordinator at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Ormskirk will have primary responsibility for ensuring adequate medical cover for Anaesthetic and Critical Care services within Planned Care. This role involves preparing and publishing medical staffing on-call rotas, managing compliance with relevant employment terms, and coordinating short- and long-term staffing solutions, including out-of-hours cover and management of vacancies. The Co-ordinator will work closely with the clinical and management teams, liaising with HR for temporary staffing solutions and adhering to trust guidelines regarding bank and agency staff usage.
Additional responsibilities include monitoring leave and sickness absence for medical staff, ensuring robust communication and coordination for junior doctors, and facilitating the required administrative tasks within the department. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate effective teamwork abilities and a commitment to ensuring services run smoothly while maintaining the highest standards of patient care. This is a permanent, full-time position offering a salary band of £26,530 to £29,114 per annum.
Additional responsibilities include monitoring leave and sickness absence for medical staff, ensuring robust communication and coordination for junior doctors, and facilitating the required administrative tasks within the department. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate effective teamwork abilities and a commitment to ensuring services run smoothly while maintaining the highest standards of patient care. This is a permanent, full-time position offering a salary band of £26,530 to £29,114 per annum.
Operational responsibility allows for significant impact on patient care by ensuring proper medical staffing.
Opportunity to work closely with clinical teams and management, fostering collaboration and communication.
Involvement in maintaining compliance with national regulations, ensuring high standards in medical staffing.
Varied role with responsibilities including coordination of short, medium, and long-term medical cover solutions.
Ability to engage with a wide range of healthcare professionals, enhancing networking and professional development.
Part of a reputable organization recognized for outstanding care and workplace satisfaction, enhancing job stability.
A workplace committed to continuous improvement and staff development through training and support.
Job Summary
The post holder will have overall operational responsibility for ensuring that the Anaesthetic and Critical Care within Planned Care has sufficient medical cover to meet service demands.
The post holder will work closely with the Assistant Directorate Manager within Planned Care Group Management and Clinical Teams to ensure that all medical rotas within the Care Group are EWTD and New Deal compliant and produced in a timely and efficient manner utilising both existing and temporary staff in the most appropriate and cost-effective manner.
Main duties of the job
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements
January 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
409-6852396
Job locations
Southport & Ormskirk
Ormskirk
L39 2AZ
Job Description
Job responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
KEY DUTIES
The post holder will have overall operational responsibility for ensuring that the Anaesthetic and Critical Care within Planned Care has sufficient medical cover to meet service demands.
The post holder will work closely with the Assistant Directorate Manager within Planned Care Group Management and Clinical Teams to ensure that all medical rotas within the Care Group are EWTD and New Deal compliant and produced in a timely and efficient manner utilising both existing and temporary staff in the most appropriate and cost-effective manner.
Main duties of the job
- Prepare and publish the medical staffing on call rotas, inclusive of consultant rotas, within Anaesthetic and Critical Care, Planned Care Group within agreed timescales.
- To support the maintenance of all medical staffing on call rotas, inclusive of consultant rotas, in line with the relevant medical terms and conditions of employment and the needs of the service.
- Co-ordinate the provision of medical staffing cover to provide short, medium and long-term solutions including medical cover out of hours and vacancies across the Anaesthetic and Critical Care.
- Monitor and record TRAC forms for medical staffing vacancies. Liaising with Clinical Director and Directorate Manager for actioning.
- Work closely with Staffing Solutions, HR to indicate any temporary medical locum cover required once all alternative options have been exhausted.
- Adhere to all trust and nationally agreed rules / terms and conditions around the use of bank and agency staff.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
January 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
409-6852396
Job locations
Southport & Ormskirk
Ormskirk
L39 2AZ
Job Description
Job responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
- Prepare and publish the medical staffing on call rotas, inclusive of consultant rotas, within Anaesthetic and Critical Care, Planned Care Group within agreed timescales.
- To support the maintenance of all medical staffing on call rotas, inclusive of consultant rotas, in line with the relevant medical terms and conditions of employment and the needs of the service.
- Co-ordinate the provision of medical staffing cover to provide short, medium and long-term solutions including medical cover out of hours and vacancies across the Anaesthetic and Critical Care.
- Monitor and record TRAC forms for medical staffing vacancies. Liaising with Clinical Director and Directorate Manager for actioning.
- Work closely with Staffing Solutions, HR to indicate any temporary medical locum cover required once all alternative options have been exhausted.
- Adhere to all trust and nationally agreed rules / terms and conditions around the use of bank and agency staff.
- Monitoring of the use of annual and study leave for all doctors ensuring that the correct level of cover is provided at all times. This would also include the arrangement of cover during examinations and junior doctor rotation.
- Monitor and record any sickness absence in line with the Attendance Management Policy for all doctors, ensuring all episodes are recorded on ESR. Escalate triggers appropriately for action.
- Be the liaison person for all junior doctor rotating to Trust including the co-ordination of the bleeps and to attend Grand Round and other relevant induction sessions.
- Liaise with Staffing Solutions, HR to arrange payment for any additional sessions undertaken inclusive of all medical grades.
- Responsible for highlighting to Clinical Directors / Consultants in relation to non-compliance of doctors Mandatory Training and Appraisals. Ensuring they are recorded on ESR when they have taken place.
- Escalate complex queries to Assistant Director Manager/ Directorate Manager
- Be able to work as part of a team, promote effective flows in the department to cover leave to ensure office runs smoothly.
- General office duties including dealing with incoming and outgoing mail, e-mail, fax, photocopying. Participate in housekeeping of the office environment.
- To work in a flexible manner in accordance with the Trust Policy.
- Any other duties required by Line Manager
KEY DUTIES
- Prepare and publish the medical staffing on call rotas, inclusive of consultant rotas, within Anaesthetic and Critical Care, Planned Care Group within agreed timescales.
- To support the maintenance of all medical staffing on call
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