Medical Workforce Capacity Manager inSouthampton inSouthampton PUBLISHED
WED 11 DEC 2024
The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring compliance with medical workforce regulations, maintaining senior on-call rotas, and providing detailed reports to executive management. They will work closely with recruitment teams to align efforts toward minimizing locum reliance. The position is a maternity leave cover for one year, and the Trust encourages discussions about flexible working arrangements during the interview process, emphasizing an inclusive recruitment process for all candidates.
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 a 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
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 providing 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 post 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
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.
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