Rota & Staffing Lead (Emergency & Acute Care)

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust; Smethwick; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is seeking an organised and proactive Rota Co-ordinator to support clinical teams by coordinating medical rotas, ensuring safe staffing levels, and responding to real-time service needs.

You will be the main point of contact for rota queries, work with the Service Manager and Rota Team to monitor weekly plans, and help reduce locum spend while maintaining safe patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating staffing rotas in a healthcare setting.
• Ability to liaise with clinicians, managers and other stakeholders.
• Strong planning and problem-solving skills for real-time service needs.

Responsibilities

• To manage and work with the Rota Co-ordinators to ensure rotas are created and distributed to specific deadlines.
• To liaise with other stakeholders and attend regular planning meetings.
• To manage the day-to-day running of the medical staffing rotas for the Emergency Department, Acute Medicine and Medicine on call areas.
• To line manage the Rota Team, ensuring that key performance targets are met.
• To deputise for the Service Manager where required and attend regular update meetings with clinical colleagues to ensure weekly monitoring and forward planning to ensure rotas are covered to meet core staffing requirements.
• To deputise for the Service Manager to ensure safe staffing levels for ward areas.
• To be the point of contact for escalations and to assist with problem solving where required.
• To work with the Service Manager to ensure that financial expenditure and cost improvements are monitored in relation to reducing medical locum expenditure and suggesting the most cost effective ways to ensure safe staffing.

Skills

Organised

Proactive

Rota coordination

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Healthcare admin experience

Job description

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is seeking an organised and proactive Rota Co-ordinator to support clinical teams by coordinating medical rotas, ensuring safe staffing levels, and responding to real-time service needs.

You will be the main point of contact for rota queries, work with the Service Manager and Rota Team to monitor weekly plans, and help reduce locum spend while maintaining safe patient care.