Job overview

Location: Frimley Park Hospital
Department: Medical Staffing / Workforce Planning

Frimley Park Hospital is seeking a highly organised and proactive Workforce Coordinator to play a vital role in supporting the effective planning and coordination of medical staff rotas across multiple departments. This key administrative position is crucial to ensuring optimal staffing levels, enabling the delivery of consistent, high-quality patient care.

The successful candidate will work closely with clinical and management teams to develop, monitor, and adjust rotas in line with service demands, staff availability, and compliance with relevant working time regulations. This role requires strong communication, problem-solving, and time-management skills, along with a meticulous attention to detail.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing and scheduling rotas for both elective and emergency clinical activities, ensuring all shifts are covered to meet service demands.
• Overseeing rotas to maintain service continuity and patient safety.
• Coordinating annual leave, study leave, and other absences for medical staff, ensuring adequate cover is in place.
• Supporting recruitment processes and working with HR to address workforce gaps.
• Ensuring compliance with rota regulations and working time directives.
• Liaising with consultants, resident doctors, and administrative teams to ensure seamless service delivery.
• Participating in the induction of all medical staff, ensuring a smooth onboarding process.
• Providing cross-site cover for colleagues during absences to maintain service continuity.

What We’re Looking For:

• Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple tasks effectively.
• A proactive and collaborative approach to working with clinical and administrative teams.

This is a full time role and offers a great opportunity to contribute to the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care while developing valuable skills in a dynamic and supportive environment.

If you’re ready to take on a rewarding role in a fast-paced NHS setting, we’d love to hear from you!

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. 

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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