Consultant or SAS doctor

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider is looking for an experienced Consultant or SAS doctor to lead their Medical Job Planning Programme in Stoke-on-Trent. This role will involve providing strategic clinical leadership and ensuring compliance with NHS England's standards. Responsibilities include chairing committees, integrating job planning with e-rostering, and driving productivity improvements across medical services. The position requires strong leadership skills and a commitment to governance standards in healthcare delivery.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in strategic clinical leadership.
• Ability to drive improvements in medical job planning.
• Strong understanding of NHS England's Levels of Attainment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Trust-wide Medical Job Planning Programme.
• Embed governance standards and chair committees.
• Integrate job planning with e-rostering and capacity modeling.

Job description

Job Overview

Are you passionate about improving medical workforce productivity and ensuring fair, transparent job planning? We are seeking an experienced Consultant or SAS doctor to lead our Trust-wide Medical Job Planning Programme, driving improvements aligned to NHS England's Levels of Attainment and productivity workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic clinical leadership for job planning across all specialties.
• Chair the Medical Job Planning Consistency Committee and embed governance standards.
• Deliver NHS England Levels of Attainment (LoA) milestones, linking programmed activities to measurable outputs.
• Integrate job planning with e‑rostering and demand & capacity modelling to optimise workforce utilisation.
• Lead engagement and training for specialty teams, fostering fairness and transparency.
• Work with external bodies to align job planning with service objectives, safety and quality principles set out by royal colleges and BMA good practice.
• Ensure board‑level oversight of e‑job planning progress and productivity outcomes through established governance routes.

Key Objectives

• Achieve LoA Level 1 compliance within 6 months.
• Implement output‑per‑PA linkage in priority specialties.
• Launch dashboards and reporting for Board assurance.
• Drive productivity improvements in elective and outpatient activity.
• Establish and Chair the Medical Job Planning Consistency Committee and specialty‑level review forums to ensure fairness, transparency and standardisation of processes in line with national guidance.

End‑to‑End Job Planning Process

• Implement an inclusive, annual cycle: preparation, objective setting, mid‑year check‑ins, year‑end review, consistent with NHS England/BMA guidance.
• Standardise timetables, DCC/SPA balances, on‑call arrangements, annualisation/LTFT considerations and supporting resources in line with specialty guidance.
• Maintain a Trust policy/SOP that is co‑developed with LNC.

Levels of Attainment (LoA) Delivery

• LoA Level 1: Achieve 95% signed‑off e‑job plans for consultants (and agreed coverage for SAS doctors).
• LoA Level 2: Link programmed activities (PAs/sessions) to agreed average clinical outputs, enabling service planning against expected delivery.
• LoA Level 3: Embed a delivery‑to‑demand matching cycle with continuous reconciliation of planned vs actual activity.
• LoA Level 4: Establish board accountability, regular audit and whole‑workforce monitoring across e‑job planning/e‑rostering.

Demand & Capacity / Productivity Workstreams

• Integrate e‑job planning with e‑rostering and demand models to match capacity to expected demand – a core mechanism for achieving productivity gains.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for productivity (e.g. elective first appointments <18 weeks, length of stay, outpatient throughput).
• Build specialty‑level "what good looks like" playbooks reflecting royal college guidance on effective job planning and team‑based delivery.

Data, Insight & Benefits Realisation

• Develop meaningful use standards dashboards and LoA KPIs; ensure data quality and reconciliation between planned vs delivered output.
• Quantify benefits (increased elective throughput, same‑day discharges, reduced reliance on agency workforce) aligned to NHSE productivity reporting.
• Present quarterly benefits reports and specialty improvement plans to the Trust Board and Workforce assurance committees.

Capability Building & Engagement

• Support the delivery of training for clinicians and managers on process, standards and the use of systems, mirroring national checklist guidance.
• Foster a culture of fairness, transparency and collaboration in job planning as per BMA/NHSE guidance.

Important information about your application

• All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from – please check your emails regularly.
• References: please provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
• Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies.
• New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting, if the role requires a DBS check.
• If you obtained your qualifications overseas, you must provide an official government translation through ECCTIS (formerly NARIC) in addition to any professional registration requirements.
• If you are currently in the UK on a visa, you must have at least six months remaining at the time of your start date (skilled worker visa exceptions apply).

Equality and Diversity

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone. We actively encourage applications from the Armed Forces community and are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful workplace for all staff.