Job overview

Main duties of the job

The role involves advising and supporting with all aspects in the ongoing management of medical staff within the Trust.  This includes doctors from FY1 to consultant level.  The tasks include providing specialist advice on a range of HR/staffing issues;  recruitment;  rota analysis and management; supporting CDs with budget analysis and consolidation;  managing junior doctor rotations including presenting at induction; monitoring absences and organising locums;  production of information on staffing/vacancies; attending meetings; dealing with employment queries including supporting complex pay queries.

Working independently, but within a supportive team environment, the role is very varied and busy.  You will routinely work to tight timescales with competing deadlines so a proven ability to work under pressure and prioritise a demanding workload is essential.  You will liaise with medical staff at all levels, along with other senior Trust staff and external bodies, so good interpersonal and communication skills are required.

Medical staffing/medical education or previous HR experience in a related role is required and experience of planning and managing rotas will be an advantage.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care