Senior Medical Workforce Advisor

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in Greater London seeks a Senior Medical Workforce Advisor for a fixed term role. This position requires leading a medical HR team, managing recruitment processes, and providing specialist advice on medical workforce issues. The role offers flexible working with 2 days on-site and 3 days remote. The ideal candidate will have experience in medical recruitment, supervision, and knowledge of NHS employment legislation. Competitive salary and benefits included.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in supervising a medical HR team.
• Knowledge of medical recruitment and NHS check standards.
• Ability to provide expert advice on terms of service.

Responsibilities

• Manage medical HR Advisors and oversee recruitment.
• Provide advice on workforce issues and legislation.
• Lead projects to optimize medical workforce services.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Decision-making

Problem-solving

Supervision

Education

Degree equivalent Experience

Completion of level 5 CIPD

Tools

TRAC

ESR

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Powerpoint

Job description

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Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

>We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Medical Workforce Advisor to lead and manage a small team within our Medical Workforce department on a fixed term contract for 6 months or on a secondment basis.

The post holder would be on-site for 2 days a week and 3 days working from home.

Main duties of the job

• Manage and supervise a team of Medical HR Advisors.
• Oversee recruitment processes, pre-employment checks, and contract administration.
• Provide specialist advice on medical workforce issues and employment legislation.
• Maintain accurate data on ESR, TRAC, allocate systems and produce reports.
• Lead projects to improve medical workforce services and support strategic objectives.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders including NHS England, Deanery, and Royal Colleges.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will oversee all operational procedures for medical staffing, including recruitment, contracts, pay, and compliance, while providing expert advice on medical terms and conditions of service.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Working knowledge and experience of resident doctor rotations and all medical recruitment.
• Medical Terms and Conditions of Service: Resident Doctors/SAS/Consultants
• Working knowledge of the NHS check standards
• Experience of supervising others

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree equivalent Experience
• Completion of level 5 CIPD
• Working knowledge and experience of resident doctor rotations and all medical recruitment.
• Employment legislation
• Medical Terms and Conditions of Service: Resident Doctors/SAS/Consultants
• Working knowledge of the NHS check standards
• Experience of supervising others
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft packages Word/Excel/Powerpoint
• Able to use TRAC /ESR

Desirable criteria

• Completion of level 7 CIPD

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent decision-making and problem-solving skills
• Ability to delegate effectively
• Ability to demonstrate the capability to operate, lead and deliver a well organised medical staffing service
• Ability to work in a high pressurised environment and work to tight deadlines

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Senior Medical Workforce Advisor (PDF, 520.3KB)
• Senior Medical Workforce Advisor (PDF, 48.5KB)
• Senior Medical Workforce Advisor (PDF, 520.3KB)
• A comprehensive guide for candidates (PDF, 875.7KB)