Job summary
- Main area
- Medical Resourcing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term/Secondment / Monday - Friday)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 275-2606MRM
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 Per annum/Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Medical Resourcing Manager
Band 6
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.
Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Job overview
Medical Resourcing Manger
Division: HR & OD
Care Group: Corporate
Band: 6
Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 Per annum/Pro rata
Interview Date: Tuesday 7th July 2026
We are recruiting for a Medical Resourcing Manager who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best
People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff
Main duties of the job
As a Medical Resourcing Team Manager, you will support in the delivery of a comprehensive medical resourcing service to the Trust keeping abreast of changes in employment legislation, and contribute to the formulation, revision and implementation of workforce resourcing policies and procedures and good employment practice.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B – Bold
E – Every person counts
S – Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To manage the workload of staff within the resourcing teams ensuring high standards are maintained.
To supervise the day to day operational management of the resourcing teams ensuring they are providing a responsive customer focused service
To oversee the budgets including the advertising budget (BMJ) and the international recruitment budget
To take responsibility for the performance management of staff through agreed objectives and standards for work using the Trust’s appraisal process and staff development opportunities Utilising Trust policies manage staff who failed to meet their objectives.
To assist staff on the redeployment register ensuring they are aware of suitable alternative opportunities
To ensure that the teams are aware of all changes taking place as a result of any initiatives and that all recruitment and employment issues that arise are dealt with in an efficient and timely manner Ensure as a Level 1 user, that all certificate of sponsorship applications are made in line with current guidelines and immigration rules
To assist the Medical Resourcing Implementation Manager to implement, maintain and report on key performance indicators for the medical resourcing service, continually monitoring, auditing and reviewing performance, procedures and processes to ensure best practice
To assist in the resolution of complaints in relation to recruitment practices and implement any changes that may arise from identified problems Provide a full on-boarding process to junior doctors in training including pre-employment clearances. Liaise with Medical Education and Health Education England (HEE), ensuring that statutory and HEE requirements and the Code of Practice are met
To monitor junior doctor hours ensuring the Trust remains compliant with the national junior doctor’s terms and conditions
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A good general level of education, with a professional or management qualification or degree, or relevant NHS experience.
- Track record of continuous professional and management development.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- In-depth understanding of medical career strucutres and Medical & Dental Terms & Conditions of service.
- In-depth knowledge of recruitment and selection legislation
- Resident doctor rotations and onboarding
- Compliance of resident doctor rotas
- GMC registration process
- Overseas recruitment processes including employer sponsorship
Experience
Essential criteria
- Related NHS experience or relevant other experience
- Experience of leading a team with demonstratable success in delivering targets
- Experience in developing policies and procedure documents
- Experience of using social media to good effect.
- Substantial recruitment and selection experience in a complex, multi-disciplinary and culturally diverse organisation, with a wide range of skills levels and within a medical resourcing setting.
- Experience of advising senior managers on recruitment and selection issues in a medical resourcing setting.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zoe Laker-Smith
- Job title
- Medical Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01634825138
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