Rota Co-ordinator/NELA Coordinator - General Surgery

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Rota Co-ordinator & NELA Coordinator who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Our busy General & Vascular Surgery Team is looking for a highly organised, administrator to manage our doctors' rotas.

You will be responsible for coordinating the administration of the medical staffing within the General & Vascular Surgery department ensuring all sickness, annual leave, study leave and special leave for medical staff is identified and mitigated working alongside our friendly team of Consultants, Registrars, SHOs and Operational team.

You will be encouraged to improve or devise processes and pathways to ensure rota management is efficient, standardised, and streamlined.

You will also be responsible for coordinating the NELA data from all emergency laparotomy patients by liaising between surgical ward, surgeons, anaesthetists, and theatres. The post holder will be encouraged to improve or devise processes and pathways to standardize the capture of NELA data within the trust.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

To ensure that the General Surgery department comply with all electronic rostering (eg Medirota) systems and processes.

Maintain operational staffing functions associated with eRostering and all associated systems and processes.

To undertake all administrative changes required to the system.

To provide first line support to system users

To provide technical support, answering support queries either via phone, email or face to face.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.