Rota Coordinator

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

Job summary

A regional NHS organization is seeking a Rota Coordinator in Colchester or Ipswich to manage medical rotas and support staffing inquiries. This role is pivotal for ensuring the smooth operation of medical teams within the Specialist Surgery Division and requires strong administrative capabilities. The position is fixed-term until March 2026 and offers numerous employee benefits, including a generous pension scheme and flexible working options.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Unsocial hours payments

NHS discounts

Health and Wellbeing programme

Wide range of training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Resilient, enthusiastic, and motivated individual.
• Ability to manage complex medical rotas.
• Experience in processing medical leave and sickness records.

Responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining complex medical rotas.
• Sourcing locum medical staff within budget.
• Processing medical leave and sickness records.

Job description

We are looking for a resilient, enthusiastic, motivated and proactively driven individual to fulfil the role of Rota Coordinator within our Specialist Surgery Division.

Candidate can be based at either Ipswich or Colchester.

You will be required to provide an excellent administrative service to the Operational and Medical teams within our Specialist Surgery CDG mainly managing the ENT Rota. Acting as the first point of contact for any medical staffing enquiries within the department you will have the responsibility for the provision of a safely staffed medical team.

Please note, this is a Fixed Term/Secondment position until 31st March 2026. Internal candidates will be offered a secondment position only.

Key Responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining complex medical rotas.
• Sourcing locum medical staff to within budgetary limits.
• Processing medical leave and sickness records for a large number of medical staff.
• Organisation of regular junior doctor rotations.
• Performing a variety of other tasks required to provide the department with an efficient medical staffing service.

Support will be provided by the Operational Team.

We are ESNEFT and we provide 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.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

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 our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Tuesday 13 Jan 2026