Medical Workforce & Operations and Productivity Lead

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Greater London is seeking an Operations and Productivity Lead to enhance medical staff management and oversee job planning initiatives. The role requires a background in project management, strong presentation skills, and the ability to navigate complex data. The successful candidate will work closely with senior medical leadership to ensure effective staffing and meet organizational goals. A degree and Prince2 certification are preferred. Offering competitive salary of £56,276 to £63,176 annually.

Qualifications

• Degree-level education or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Prince2 Practitioner level and/or equivalent project management training.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of e-job planning and productivity improvements.
• Manage the evaluation of new staffing models.
• Support medical staff in completing their job plans.

Skills

Project management skills

Excellent presentation skills

MS Office skills

Job planning software experience

Strong communication skills

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Prince2 Practitioner level

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Medical Workforce - Operations and Productivity Lead

The Operations and Productivity Lead role will provide forward-thinking operational and project leadership to the medical directorate, and medical staff management in general, ensuring both stakeholder engagement and an effective standard of organisation of the processes related to medical staff management.

The post-holder will be a core member of the Medical Directorate Management Team, working to support the Chief Medical Officer and Associate Medical Director for Workforce to deliver the long-term medical workforce strategy.The post-holder will be expected to lead on and apply a programme management approach to projects within the medical workforce portfolio as they present themselves, with the aim of ensuring that the medical workforce adapts to the changing availability of medically trained staff and in addition meets the levels of attainment as set out by NHS Improvement.

There is a current focus on medical job planning, both ensuring a consistently high rate and improving the quality of job planning, and the measurement of job planned activity. Experience in medical job planning would therefore be of benefit.

Main duties of the job

Leading on the delivery of e-Job Planning and Productivity:

There is a current focus on medical job planning, both ensuring a consistently high rate and improving the quality of job planning, and the measurement of job planned activity. The post-holder will be expected to provide support to the medical workforce to enable them to complete their job plans, have sufficient knowledge of data analysis to provide accurate figures for the rates of job plan completion at all levels to complete the NHS England returns and complete bespoke reports as requested. It is also hoped that the successful candidate will be able to continue programmes of work which are aimed at the measurement of job planned activity.

Other areas of work include

include the delivery of workstreams that improve medical staff management and productivity, such as, (but not limited to) the following:

Leading on the procurement of software packages (medical workforce management)

Leading on the evaluation and introduction of e-rostering packages

Leading, managing, or supporting in the evaluation of new staffing models

Leading, managing, or supporting other projects as suggested by outputs from regulatory and advisory bodies such as the General Medical Council, NHS Improvement, NHS Employers and NHS England

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

POST SUMMARY please refer to the detailed job description which is attached.

The Operations and Productivity Lead role will provide forward-thinking operational and project leadership to the medical directorate, and medical staff management in general, ensuring both stakeholder engagement and an effective standard of organisation of the processes related to medical staff management.

The post-holder will be a core member of the Medical Directorate Management Team, working to support the Chief Medical Officer and Associate Medical Director for Workforce to deliver the long-term medical workforce strategy. The post-holder will be expected to lead on and apply a programme management approach to projects within the medical workforce portfolio as they present themselves, with the aim of ensuring that the medical workforce adapts to the changing availability of medically trained staff and in addition meets the levels of attainment as set out by NHS Improvement. This will specifically include the delivery of workstreams that improve medical staff management and productivity, such as, (but not limited to) the following:

Leading on the procurement of software packages (medical workforce management)

Leading on the evaluation and introduction of e-rostering packages

Leading on the delivery of e-Job Planning and Productivity

Leading, managing, or supporting in the evaluation of new staffing models

Leading, managing, or supporting other projects as suggested by outputs from regulatory and advisory bodies such as the General Medical Council, NHS Improvement, NHS Employers and NHS England.

Person Specification

Education

• Prince2 Practitioner level and / or equivalent project management training
• Educated to degree level / or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Evidence of continued professional development

Experience of managing and leading a team / projects

• Proven experience in the delivery of projects using a range of software and tools to aid productivity (project management skills_
• Ability to assess and evaluate project progress against agreed time scales and objectives and provide solutions to address any deviations.
• Well-developed presentation and communication skills - with the ability to present new and unfamiliar concepts to operational management teams
• The ability to develop both formal and informal networks to share learning and knowledge both locally and externally
• The ability to work with and potentially challenge the ways of working of senior medical colleagues
• Excellent listening skills and the ability to advise and influence in stressful situations.
• Ability to receive, interpret and communicate complex information / data and produce reports for performance management and improvement
• Skilled in the use of MS Office, including Excel and Powerpoint
• Previous experience with job planning software

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£56,276 to £63,176 a yearPer annum Including HCAS