Rota Coordinator | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organisation in Colchester is seeking a motivated Rota Coordinator to manage medical staffing and maintain efficient rotas. The ideal candidate will provide administrative support to medical teams and ensure safe staffing levels in Women's Services and Paediatric Services. This role offers flexible working, training, and generous benefits, including 27 days annual leave. Apply by Sunday 30 Nov 2025.

Benefits

Generous pension

27 days annual leave (pro rata)

NHS discounts

Comprehensive Staff Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Resilient, enthusiastic, and motivated individual.
• Excellent administrative service.
• Ability to manage and maintain complex medical rotas.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain complex medical rotas.
• Source locum medical staff within budgetary limits.
• Process medical leave and sickness records for over 60 medical staff.
• Organise regular junior doctor rotations.
• Handle additional tasks required for department efficiency.

Job description

Position Overview

We are looking for a resilient, enthusiastic, motivated and proactively driven individual to fulfil the role of Rota Coordinator within our Women & Children's Division.

Please be advised we can close the advert earlier if sufficient amount of applications received.

As first point of contact for medical staffing enquiries, you will provide excellent administrative service to the Operational and Medical teams within our Women's Services and Paediatric Services, and ensure a safely staffed medical team.

We are ESNEFT, delivering hospital and community health services to almost one million people across East Suffolk and North Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff and support our employees with training, flexible working, generous pension, unsocial hours payments, 27 days annual leave (pro rata), NHS discounts, and a comprehensive Staff Health and Wellbeing programme.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic, bringing what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and maintain complex medical rotas.
• Source locum medical staff within budgetary limits.
• Process medical leave and sickness records for over 60 medical staff.
• Organise regular junior doctor rotations.
• Handle additional tasks required to keep the department’s medical staffing service efficient.

We Encourage Your Application

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

This advert closes on Sunday 30 Nov 2025