Resource Scheduling Co-Ordinator

Job summary

OPERATIONS - Resourcing and Business Planning

Resource Scheduling Coordinator

37.5 hours per week - full time

Based between Newcastle Upon Tyne

Those who have applied in the last 6 months need not re apply.

The Scheduling Department is an essential team within the North East Ambulance Service. The team works collaboratively with the Operational staff within the Trust to ensure that we have a robust workforce in place to meet the busy demands of our service. The Scheduling Coordinator is one of the significant roles in the Trust.

You will be required to support operations with a specific focus on working pattern flexibility, staff rota's, ensuring that capacity and demand is met, and that clinical colleagues and resources are allocated and utilised appropriately. You will need to work independently without direct day to day supervision and be able time manage appropriately.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a busy department with lots of prospects for development and further learning. If you are looking for an exciting, rewarding and challenging new role working with an enthusiastic team then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is accountable to the Resource Scheduling Team Leader for the delivery of resource co-ordination throughout the Operations Directorate and associated Support Services

To proactively support Operational / Support staff in Resource Administration and co-ordination.

To ensure that production of core rotas and all information held on the Global Rostering System (GRS) within the Trust are accurate and conform to Working Time Directive Regulations and Data Protection Act requirements.

To ensure that all staff have the correct hours according to their contract, annual leave allowance allocated to them in line with service level agreements and working time legislation.

To manage abstractions to service level agreement, e.g. annual leave, training, Court appearances, sickness etc.

To ensure the timely provision of analytical and statistical information from the Rostering system is correct, transparent and up to date.

About us

We employ 3,500 staff in 63 locations and serve a population of 2,600,000 in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, and Tees over 3230 square miles.

Many people think the job of the ambulance service is to collect patients and take them to hospital, but we do much more!

Paramedic skills have developed hugely in recent years, meaning we carry out more treatment at the scene and en-route to hospital.

We have a dedicated clinical assessment service that allows us to provide patients with the most appropriate care from the beginning of the patient journey.

We have a specialised branch of the Trust called HART which deal with explosions or terrorist attacks.

Ultimately patients are the heart of everything that we do to support our mission of "safe, effective and responsive care for all".

We value and respect the diversity employees bring to our workplace. We recruit a workforce that reflects the community we serve, and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. To ensure we deliver on our aims in relation to diversity and inclusion we assess ourselves against a range of frameworks. We are ENEI Gold employer, Disability Confident Leader, Dyslexia Smart Award employer, Dementia Friendly, and part of Mind Blue Light programme and the Race at Work Charter from the Princes Responsible Business Network and are achieving across all objectives in NHS Equality Delivery System.

Employer details

Employer name

North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bernicia House

Goldcrest Way

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NE15 8NY

Employer's website

https://www.neas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bernicia House

Goldcrest Way

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NE15 8NY

Employer's website

https://www.neas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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