Health Roster Support Assistant

Job summary

Working Full Time: 37.5 Hours per week

The postholder will provide administrative support to the eRoster team to implement and monitor the delivery of a consistent, efficient and cost effective eRostering system across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the HealthRoster Team. Working within the Central Nursing Workforce Team you will provide administrative support to the eRoster Team to ensure successful delivery of an eRostering system.

You will be IT confident and proficient in the use of microsoft office, specifically Excel.

You will be naturally intuative, an excellent communicator and able to adapt to a varity of tasks.

Outgoing, sociable with a problem solving approach and able to demonstrate a 'can do' attitude.

In return you will recieve support with gaining Allocate HealthRoster Accreditation and your continuous professional development as well as the experiance of working within a multi discipline team. You will gain skills and experiance in safer staffing, IT, payroll and workforce information.

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.