Job summary
- Main area
- Administrator
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-7488084-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ludlow Hospital
- Town
- Ludlow
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Temporary Staffing Co-ordinator
NHS AfC: Band 3
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700. For a limited number of clinical posts (listed here), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a Temporary Staffing Co-ordinator within our Temporary Staffing Team on a permanent contract of 21.5 hours per week. This will include weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.
The post holder will assist the Team Lead in providing a comprehensive high quality temporary staffing and advisory service to all users of the Department over 7 days a week, 365 days of the year.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to source staff to cover shifts using the processes within the Department utilising the pool of bank workers and booking Agency Workers, answering calls and deal with any workforce enquires and messages in a prompt, polite and efficient manner.
Part of your role in conjunction with the Temporary Staffing Officer, will be to assist the Team Lead to complete Agency Worker processes and collate data for reports.
Daily responsibilities will include general filing, printing, shredding, and photocopying associated with the team.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached the Job description and Person Specification for more details regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to at least GCSE level or equivalent experience.
- ECDL qualification or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Considerable experience of processing high volumes of bookings onto a Rostering system or equivalent.
- Considerable experience of using a variety of software packages commonly used within an office environment.
- Experience of accurate data input and working with a high attention to detail.
- Experience of using and working knowledge of electronic rostering systems.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good working knowledge of excel to be able to create and manipulate data.
- Understanding of NHS temporary staffing processes and procedures.
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work closely and effectively with staff at all levels of the organisation.
- Able to appropriately update and inform managers and workers in accordance with the temporary staffing processes and procedures.
- Ability to scan, copy and complete general administrative tasks to an accurate and consistently high standard.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Conway
- Job title
- Temporary Staffing Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01584 666069
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