Job summary
- Main area
- Workforce System
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 153-CO02913-A
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Yeomans House
- Town
- Bournemouth
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
E Rostering Lead
Band 6
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
University Hospitals Dorset are looking for a E Rostering Lead.
As part of the Workforce Systems team the post holder will be responsible for the provision, on-going implementation and management of the e rostering arrangements, linking with payroll, finance, IT and all other operational teams.
The post holder has a responsibility to work Trust wide to ensure that the use of e rostering is successfully embedded across the Trust and that the system benefits are maximised. To identify local and national good practice in the provision of e rostering, ensuring information and learning is disseminated.
Base Location: Yeoman's way
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
- To lead in challenging existing rostering practices, ensuring progressive solutions are identified and implemented, which take into account models of best practice and best use of resources.
- To act as a champion of the e rostering application and encourage others to adapt to new ways of working.
- Work with ward managers to ensure rosters are planned within Trust policy guidelines and escalate issues of non-conformance for corrective action.
- Develop and provide analysis on the performance of e rostering for key stakeholder groups and Trust Care Groups; bench marking against the policies set out during the implementation
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- IM&T / degree qualification or demonstrable experience in creating complex rosters
- Demonstrable and in-depth experience of Allocate Healthroster and ESR
- Detailed knowledge and experience of NHS Terms and Conditions and Organisational Structures.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working on or with the implementation of complex Workforce Systems projects and Trust wide
- Experience of working with software e rostering systems.
- Experience of delivering training.
Desirable criteria
- Experience within the Healthcare sector
Technical skills Competencies
Essential criteria
- Ability to take customers’ requirements and then implement that strategy within Health Roster and roll that out at both a departmental and organisational level.
- Always looking for continual service improvement, in order to improve the e rostering experience.
- Technically proficient with the use of Microsoft packages.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and ability to design, develop and author Trust and Department level reports from both Health Roster, ESR and Allocate Insights.
- In depth experience and detailed knowledge of ESR in order to integrate Health Roster data with ESR data.
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of hospital structure.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Highly organised, motivated and able to plan own workload, working unsupervised when necessary.
- Good team player with the ability to work with people and to understand their requirements.
Desirable criteria
- Be willing to challenge current thinking and practice to improve quality.
- Should be committed to keeping updated with current National e rostering issues and technologies and willing to learn new skills.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Cain
- Job title
- Head of Workforce Systems
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07775017046
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