Medical Staffing Co-Ordinator - Liverpool
The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic individual with strong administrative skills to join Alder Hey within the Division of Medicine.
The ideal candidate will have strong organisational skills, confident communication skills and will be able to prioritise their workload.They will work with minimal supervision and work effectively within a team and individually.
The post holder will have experience with Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Word, Excel).
This is a Fixed Term Post for 22.5 hours per week for 12 months.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will, in conjunction with the relevant consultant teams, be responsible for the creation of medical rotas within the Division of Medicine. This will involve close liaison with key stakeholders, and an understanding the demands and complexities of each service in order to support the provision of cost efficient medical rotas.
The post holder will play a pivotal role in ensuring appropriate internal locum cover and reducing the reliance on external medical agency usage, avoiding unnecessary associated expenditure
The post holder will confidently and effectively ensure that any rota management issues are appropriately handled in accordance with Trust polices and procedures, seeking advice and support where required.
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man.We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists.Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow.At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please review the Job Description for further information relating to this exciting opportunity.
If you have any queries please contact Elizabeth Harrison
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria- Previous rota coordination and rota management experience
- Complex software systems
- Working in a complex administrative environment
- Medical staffing management
- NHS experience
- Customer Service experience
Education & Training
Essential criteria- 5 GCSEs at Grade C including English & Maths or equivalent
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Knowledge relating to the employment and training of specialist medical staff
- Knowledge and Understanding of the National Terms and Conditions for Medical and Dental Staff
- Rota software
Skills
Essential criteria- Significant IT skills using Microsoft, excel and other software packages at an extremely high standard
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience of processing payments
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria- Resilience to work under pressure in a fast paced environment
- Ability to prioritise own work load
- Ability to deal with a wide range of tasks and deliver deadlines
- Ability to be flexible around working hours
- Ability to demonstrate Trust Values
We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development.We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.
Should you require any assistance during the application stages please contact recruiting manager of vacancy or the recruitment team at [email protected] or call 0151 282 4599
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Please note, the selection processes at Alder Hey Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.