Medical Workforce Coordinator

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A NHS Trust in the UK is seeking a motivated Operational Support Coordinator within Women’s Services. This full-time role involves coordinating medical staffing, supporting managers, and ensuring patient safety. The ideal candidate should have a degree level education and experience in a healthcare setting. The position offers a range of benefits, including a generous holiday allowance and support for professional development, all while working in a friendly and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Access to NHS pension plan

Generous holiday allowance

Employee health and wellbeing services

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Degree level education or equivalent experience within a healthcare provider.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience of producing reports and collating data.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate medical staffing for Women's Services.
• Act as point of contact for medical staffing queries.
• Develop reports for Division and Patient Service Manager.

Skills

Coordination

Communication

Data reporting

Education

Degree level education or equivalent experience

Tools

e-rostering system

Healthcare reporting tools

Job description

For Enquiries About The Role Please Contact

Claire Straw - Assistant Patient Service Management

Email: :

Call: 01924 543752

About The Role

Temporary Secondment Opportunity Operational Support (Women’s Services)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, highly motivated, enthusiastic individual to join our busy operational team within Women’s Services, which includes Obstetrics, Maternity, and Gynaecology.

This temporary post offers an excellent chance to use your experience and skills within an expanding and innovative service.

The post is a full-time position working 5 days.

Main Duties

• The coordination of medical staffing Trust wide for the Women’s Services- Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Lead on the operationalisation of medical staffing rota’s, ensuring all clinical areas have appropriate medical cover.
• Act as a point of contact for all medical staffing queries coming into the Women’s Services.
• Support Patient Service Managers to ensure resources are utilised effectively and efficiently to facilitate patient safety.
• To utilise the e-rostering system and other medical staffing systems to ensure full-service provision at all times.
• Liaising with consultants, medical directorate and managers about medical staffing issues, requirements and problems and working towards solutions.
• To support the Patient Service Manager in ensuring value for money and quality of service with regards to locum bookings.
• Manage sensitive issues both over the telephone and face to face with regard to staff and Trust information ensuring confidentiality at all levels is maintained.
• Work in conjunction with the College Tutor to develop the local induction for junior doctors, registrars and locums within the division.
• Lead on weekly Roster check meeting to ensure that medical staffing and nursing provision are reviewed ensuring consistency and efficiency. Securing staff and moving resources to creating additional capacity for Antenatal and Gynaecology clinics.
• Manage the maintenance of records for WLI /additional enhanced rate tracker.
• Develop and provide applicable reports to the Division and PSM.
• Responsible for returns and SIT reps where unforeseen circumstances require e.g. Doctors Strike Action.
• Responsible facilitating training doctors’ development plan.
• Validation of financial reports.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to review the full requirements.

Essential Person Specification Requirements

• Degree level education or equivalent experience within a healthcare provider.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience of working with directors and clinical teams
• Experience of producing reports and collating data to support performance monitoring
• Sound understanding of management processes and procedures

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application Guidance

We understand that more applicants are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.

Our Benefits

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including:
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Home electronics scheme
• Cycle to work scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support

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