Head of Medical Workforce

This role involves leading the Medical Workforce service in ensuring an effective, reliable and responsive Medical recruitment and selection service and ensuring all Junior Doctor Rotations are delivered successfully, providing expert advice across all levels on the Medical and Dental Terms and Conditions of Service and related Trust Policies, and supporting Trust Rota compliance.
The post holder will support the Associate Director of HR - Medical Workforce to deliver the Trust's Medical Workforce strategy ensuring this meets local and national objectives, and be responsible for delivering all aspects of a high quality medical staffing service across the Trust.
The post would suit an experienced medical workforce professional looking to develop the next stage in their career by working in a fast moving medical workforce function at one of the biggest NHS Trusts in the country., The post holder will be responsible for leading and managing the Medical Workforce function, ensuring a high level of customer service is delivered to stakeholders and customers.
The post holder will have direct line management of two Medical Operations Managers and overall management responsibility for a Medical Workforce Team of 26 members of staff of different Agenda for Change grades.
This is a key post in the Workforce Directorate and will involve working with key internal and external stakeholders to implement and deliver HR projects to aid service improvement., We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients., Be responsible for leading and managing the Medical Workforce function, ensuring a high level of customer service is delivered to stakeholders and customers.
Drive continuous improvement of medical workforce processes and practices, ensuring effective stakeholder engagement and optimum service delivery.
To provide highly specialist advice to managers in respect of complex medical workforce issues, pay and contractual issues in accordance with the Medical & Dental terms & conditions, and the relevant Trust policies.
Be responsible for leading and managing the overall co-ordination of the employment of Doctors in Training
Be responsible for leading and managing the overall monthly payroll processes by the Medical HR team, including processing of all new starters, all pay affecting changes, terminations and any data uploads.
Work collaboratively with Directorate Management Teams, HR Business Partners and others to develop strategic initiatives to fill hard to recruit medical roles drawing on a range of options including contract type and source market.
Guy's and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study's at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual's personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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NHS AfC: Band 8a
Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy's is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas' has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS., GSTT employs around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, and neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.