Medicine Rota Co-Ordinator

You will have overall responsibility for ensuring that the Medicine/Urgent Care Group has sufficient medical cover to meet the service demands. You will work closely with Medical and Urgent Care Group Management and Clinical teams to ensure that all medical rotas within the Care Group are compliant and produced in a timely manner, utilising both existing and temporary staff in the most appropriate and cost effective manner., Use the Health Roster system to prepare and publish the medical staffing on call rotas, inclusive of consultant rotas, within the Medical Care Group within agreed timescales. To support the maintenance and review of all medical staffing on call rotas (inclusive of new doctor rotations) and consultant rotas, in line with the relevant medical terms and conditions of employment and the needs of the service. Co-ordinate the provision of medical staffing cover to provide short, medium and long-term solutions including medical cover out of hours and vacancies across the Medical Care Group. Monitor and record TRAC forms for medical staffing vacancies. Liaising with Clinical Director and Directorate Manager for actioning. Work closely with Staffing Solutions, HR to indicate any temporary medical locum cover required once all alternative options have been exhausted. Adhere to all trust and nationally agreed rules / terms and conditions around the use of bank and agency staff and ensure these are entered onto Health Roster to ensure timely and accurate payment.

You will provide an efficient service to the Trust, ensuring robust plans are in place to develop and improve the administrative role in line with new medical rota practices. This role is challenging and demanding and will require excellent time management, interpersonal and organisation skills. You must be able to prioritise their own workload, and will require a flexible approach to their duties and cross cover the ED rota co-ordinator as and when required. You must be able to communicate effectively with staff at all levels within the organisation, and be responsible in ensuring optimum use of physical capacity throughout medical teams to deliver service needs. You should have equivalent experience to degree level and/or relevant experience. You must also be motivated and pro-active within your role and able to wok flexibly across sites if required. You must be willing to meet the performance criteria set out in the Job Description and undertake personal and professional development.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care. Our services: Acute Care Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales. Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme