Job summary
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Staffing Solutions Team. Working within the Central Nursing Workforce Team you will provide supervisory support to the Staffing SolutionsTeam to ensure successful delivery of our temporary staffing service.
You will be highly organised, an excellent communicator and motivator, and have an interest in temporary staffing.
You will be IT confident and proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, specifically using Excel to produce reports.
You will be naturally intuitive, able to adapt to a variety of tasks and have good time and priority management skills.
Outgoing, sociable with a problem solving approach and able to demonstrate a 'can do' attitude along with flexibility to meet service needs.
In return you will receive continuous development opportunities and be part of a new innovative and essential team that supports all clinical areas with staffing challenges.
Main duties of the job
Accountable to the HealthRoster & Temporary Staffing Coordinator, the post holder will work as part of the Staffing Solutions Team in the provision and delivery of the Temporary Staffing service by ensuring the sourcing, booking and redeployment of professional and non-professional staff. This will involve working to standard processes and procedures in the provision of staff to ensure safe staffing levels.
The post holder will be responsible for submitting the bank payroll, all recruitment to the bank and authorising agency staff invoices for payment. The post holder will be responsible for providing appropriate and timely routine basic advice and information on a range of standard processes and procedures used within the team and achieving KPI's in accordance with service specifications. The post holder will ensure full utilisation of the technology available including ESR, HealthRoster, BankStaff, and Brooksons, FPM and TRAC and any other technology.
The list below is to outline the main duties involved; however this is subject to change and will vary within the given role. We ask all employees to be flexible in their role, to always ensure we are delivering Safe, Kind and Effective care.
About us
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
- The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
- Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
- Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are the 6 Cs Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £28 (standard) or £45 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
The Trust encourages and supports the uptake of approved Covid 19 vaccines as the means of providing the best line of defence against infection, for patients and our people.
Good luck with your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are the 6 Cs Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £28 (standard) or £45 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
The Trust encourages and supports the uptake of approved Covid 19 vaccines as the means of providing the best line of defence against infection, for patients and our people.
Good luck with your application.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- GCSE English, Maths, NVQ level 3 in Administration or equivalent qualification/experience
- ECDL or equivalent experience
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Basic knowledge of safe employment protocol
Desirable
- Experience within an ESR/Payroll/HR/ Temporary Staffing environment
- Experience of implementing change to develop or improve services
- Basic knowledge of ESR/Health Roster/Bank Staff systems
- Basic knowledge of Agenda for Change, Medical and Dental and local terms and conditions of clients
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Able to use MO Package and good keybopard skills
- Good communication Skills, all levels, internal & external, confidently
- Ability to work independently and as a team member
- Able to multi-task and continue to function to a high standard when under pressure
- Able to work under pressure and to deadlines
- Well organised
Desirable
- Previous Team Leader experiance
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- GCSE English, Maths, NVQ level 3 in Administration or equivalent qualification/experience
- ECDL or equivalent experience
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Basic knowledge of safe employment protocol
Desirable
- Experience within an ESR/Payroll/HR/ Temporary Staffing environment
- Experience of implementing change to develop or improve services
- Basic knowledge of ESR/Health Roster/Bank Staff systems
- Basic knowledge of Agenda for Change, Medical and Dental and local terms and conditions of clients
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Able to use MO Package and good keybopard skills
- Good communication Skills, all levels, internal & external, confidently
- Ability to work independently and as a team member
- Able to multi-task and continue to function to a high standard when under pressure
- Able to work under pressure and to deadlines
- Well organised
Desirable
- Previous Team Leader experiance
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
