Medical Workforce Capacity Manager

Open only to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to; Hampshire IOW Healthcare NHS Trust, Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, South Central Ambulance Service or Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.

Working collaboratively and proactively with a wide range of stakeholders across the organisation including, Senior and Executive Medical staff, Workforce Business Partners, Finance, Medical Education and the Medical Attraction, Recruitment and Transactional Teams, the Medical Workforce Capacity plays a unique and a pivotal role in ensuring that our Medical Workforce (permanent and temporary) is deployed effectively across the Trust.

High on the agenda will be supporting the Trust in delivering its' key priorities including control of locum use and cost reduction and contributing to the delivery of key objectives within the medical workforce action plan., You'll manage and drive the day-to-day relationship between the Trust and our agency provider for Medical Staff, troubleshooting problems as they occur, ensuring that the agency delivers agreed targets whilst maintaining good relations. You will liaise with our Clinical Management teams across the organisation and providing constructive challenge and creative solutions to, locum management and, staff deployment issues within Medical terms and conditions.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to, or lead the development of further options for temporary medical staffing by working on projects such as the development of our Medical Staff Bank and continuing to improve our rostering capacity and visibility. You will work with the Chief Medical Officers and Finance colleagues to maintain the medical workforce establishment ensuring that Trust's resources are spent effectively and post are funded

You will be responsible for managing a small team and giving oversight to the core tools and processes that support the medical workforce including, rostering, compliance with Resident Doctors contract, maintaining senior medical on call rotas, management of the temporary medical workforce and providing regular reporting to the Executive Medical Officer, Trust Executive and the ICB. A key relationship will be with attraction and recruitment colleagues to ensure their activity is aligned to support the removal of locums.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.