Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly competent, creative, and professional Head of Medical Staffing to help us develop our Medical Staffing service. You will be an experienced manager with significant experience of working in a Medical Staffing function and providing sound advice, support and guidance on Medical Terms and Conditions.
As a member of the workforce service senior management team, you will undertake the role of strategic and operational lead for our Medical Staffing service. This is a varied remit that will oversee the delivery of a high quality, customer focused, operational service to our 500+ doctors.
If you've had experienced in improving recruitment and retention, effective rota design and delivering value for money temporary staffing solutions, we want to hear from you!
This is an exciting time to join the team as the Trust are investing into the development of this service.
As a Trust, we recommend that individuals employed in patient facing roles,or those located on a ward or department where patients receive a service are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Main duties of the job
Working with medical leaders in the Trust, you will ensure the medical workforce is supported and developed in line with local and national changes.
You will be responsible for ensuring ensure job planning and rota development/management meets the needs of our services and satisfies education and development commitments.
Taking a lead with the workforce planning of the Medical workforce you will develop a clear understanding of the current and future needs of BTH to ensure the trust has the right number of medical staff with the right skills both now and in the future.
As Head of Medical Staffing, you will lead, support and develop the function with lead responsibility for the effective management of suppliers and systems within the service.
A full breakdown of the duties and responsibilities can be found in the job specification.
About us
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a large, integrated provider of acute and community services to the 445,000 population of the Fylde coast health economy and the estimated 11 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool. With patients and families at the heart of all we do, we are committed to creating a culture that empowers our staff and inspires us all to deliver first class clinical care. We form a central part of the Healthier Fylde Coast Integrated Care Partnership and our progressive approach to partnership working in the area provides an enviable opportunity to redesign and deliver services that meet the challenges of today's health system.
We are not underestimating the challenges facing today's health system but believe there are the foundations here in Blackpool to deliver truly excellent, integrated services that can make a major impact on the lives of the thousands of people we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Head of Medical Staffing is responsible for the provision of strategic and operational leadership in relation to people services provided to the Medical Workforce (c.500 staff) across Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTH) to support the delivery of high-quality care for patients and education for doctors and other professionals.
This includes day-to-day running and leadership of our Medical Staffing function within the HR&OD Division ensuring the provision of high-quality, customer focused, operational services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Head of Medical Staffing is responsible for the provision of strategic and operational leadership in relation to people services provided to the Medical Workforce (c.500 staff) across Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTH) to support the delivery of high-quality care for patients and education for doctors and other professionals.
This includes day-to-day running and leadership of our Medical Staffing function within the HR&OD Division ensuring the provision of high-quality, customer focused, operational services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Graduate or equivalent experience
- Masters in relevant field or equivalent relevant experience
- Post Graduate Membership of the CIPD or equivalent demonstrable experience
Desirable
Skills
Essential
- Ability to interpret legislation and national guidance
- Evidence of ability to develop / contribute to strategy development & implementation, which may impact across the organisation
- Ability to synthesise data and information and provide quality analysis
- Negotiating and influencing at all levels
- Highly developed communication and networking
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable and thorough understanding of development and project delivery in the health sector or similar complex environment.
- Significant experience working as a Senior HR Manager
- Motivating, managing and developing effective teams
- Commitment to and experience of partnership working
- Handling complex Employee Relations issues and / or using MHPS processes
- Managing significant organisation wide change programmes at a senior level incl TUPE
- Effective budget and resource management
- Project Management
- Generating reports for a variety of audiences pulling together and using complex information from a number of sources
- Negotiating changes to working practices with key stakeholders within the organisation
- Volume recruitment and onboarding
- Agency issues and bank
- Negotiating and influencing at all levels
- Understanding and operating complex terms and conditions
Desirable
- Experience of managing Medical Workforce functions
- Supplier management and procurement
- Managing Employee Relations in line with MHPS
- Supporting a Responsible Officer to ensure medical appraisal and revalidation works well
- Developing and improving recruitment processes
- Medical specific recruitment experience (AAC's/Drs in Training)
- Job Planning and Rota management processes
- Medical Agency issues
- HealthRoster
- Medical Terms and Conditions
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge/ understanding of confidentiality issues
- Comprehensive and up to date knowledge of medical contracts in all their forms
- Working Time Directive and other legal requirements relating to medical staff
- Knowledge of bank and agency processes
- Knowledge of medical rotas and medical terms and conditions of employment
- Understanding of developments in the medical workforce
- Best practice recruitment
Desirable
- Training requirements for Doctors and their interface with employment
- Comprehensive and up to date knowledge of medical contracts in all their forms
- Up to date knowledge of medical locum and bank processes
Other Requirements
Essential
- Commitment and adherence to the Equality Act
- Knowledge of equality & diversity issues, and underpinning legislation, and ability to use knowledge to promote and implement best practice within employment.
- Understanding of the Trust values
- Flexible approach to work
- Resilience
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Graduate or equivalent experience
- Masters in relevant field or equivalent relevant experience
- Post Graduate Membership of the CIPD or equivalent demonstrable experience
Desirable
Skills
Essential
- Ability to interpret legislation and national guidance
- Evidence of ability to develop / contribute to strategy development & implementation, which may impact across the organisation
- Ability to synthesise data and information and provide quality analysis
- Negotiating and influencing at all levels
- Highly developed communication and networking
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable and thorough understanding of development and project delivery in the health sector or similar complex environment.
- Significant experience working as a Senior HR Manager
- Motivating, managing and developing effective teams
- Commitment to and experience of partnership working
- Handling complex Employee Relations issues and / or using MHPS processes
- Managing significant organisation wide change programmes at a senior level incl TUPE
- Effective budget and resource management
- Project Management
- Generating reports for a variety of audiences pulling together and using complex information from a number of sources
- Negotiating changes to working practices with key stakeholders within the organisation
- Volume recruitment and onboarding
- Agency issues and bank
- Negotiating and influencing at all levels
- Understanding and operating complex terms and conditions
Desirable
- Experience of managing Medical Workforce functions
- Supplier management and procurement
- Managing Employee Relations in line with MHPS
- Supporting a Responsible Officer to ensure medical appraisal and revalidation works well
- Developing and improving recruitment processes
- Medical specific recruitment experience (AAC's/Drs in Training)
- Job Planning and Rota management processes
- Medical Agency issues
- HealthRoster
- Medical Terms and Conditions
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge/ understanding of confidentiality issues
- Comprehensive and up to date knowledge of medical contracts in all their forms
- Working Time Directive and other legal requirements relating to medical staff
- Knowledge of bank and agency processes
- Knowledge of medical rotas and medical terms and conditions of employment
- Understanding of developments in the medical workforce
- Best practice recruitment
Desirable
- Training requirements for Doctors and their interface with employment
- Comprehensive and up to date knowledge of medical contracts in all their forms
- Up to date knowledge of medical locum and bank processes
Other Requirements
Essential
- Commitment and adherence to the Equality Act
- Knowledge of equality & diversity issues, and underpinning legislation, and ability to use knowledge to promote and implement best practice within employment.
- Understanding of the Trust values
- Flexible approach to work
- Resilience
Additional information
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).
