Job overview

***INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY***

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to support the Consultant Anaesthetist and Junior/Reg team across the Surgical Division for 37.5 hours per week, on a permanent basis. The required hours of the post will be Monday – Friday 7.5 hours per day. 

This is a very busy role supporting the clinical teams in delivering quality rotas that are safe, cost-effective, efficient and fair. We are looking for an individual who will be highly motivated to take on a new challenge, in return this post will offer excellent development opportunities.  Key stakeholders will also include Surgical workforce, medical locums, HR, operational managers and medical staff in order to coordinate staffing operationally.

The successful candidate will require excellent organisational and communication skills, demonstrate the ability to work self-sufficiently, using their own initiative and be willing to be adaptable and flexible to meet the needs of the service. The individual must also have the ability to work well under pressure and have the desire to provide a first class service for patients and the clinical teams.

Previous experience of working within a Healthcare environment is desirable but not essential.

Main duties of the job

An integral part of the role is the efficient deployment of Consultant Anaesthetist and Junior/Reg staff and targeting locum cover needs for safe medical staff cover within the departments/hospital, adhering to, agreed minimum staffing levels set by Associate Medical Directors, Clinical Directors and operational management teams. The post holder is pivotal in personally assisting the directorate management teams within the Surgical division, and all medical staff/clinicians and being a first point of contact for all specified service queries.

The post holder is responsible for keeping accurate attendance records and is expected to contribute to workforce planning.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.