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.
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., · 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., · Monitoring of the use of annual and study leave for all doctors ensuring that the correct level of cover is provided at all times. This would also include the arrangement of cover during examinations and junior doctor rotation.
· Monitor and record any sickness absence in line with the Attendance Management Policy for all doctors, ensuring all episodes are recorded on ESR. Escalate triggers appropriately for action.
· Be the liaison person for all junior doctor rotating to Trust including the co-ordination of the bleeps and to attend Grand Round, daily medical handover and other relevant induction sessions.
· Liaise with Staffing Solutions, HR to arrange payment for any additional sessions undertaken inclusive of all medical grades.
· Responsible for highlighting to Clinical Directors / Consultants in relation to non-compliance of doctors Mandatory Training and Appraisals. Ensuring they are recorded on ESR when they have taken place. Escalate complex queries to Assistant Director Manager/ Directorate Manager
· Be able to work as part of a team, promote effective flows in the department to cover leave to ensure office runs smoothly.
· General office duties including dealing with incoming and outgoing mail, e-mail, fax, photocopying. Participate in housekeeping of the office environment.
· To work in a flexible manner in accordance with the Trust Policy.
· Any other duties required by Line Manager.
Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. You are part of an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.
Given sometimes we receive a high volume of applications to work for us, please be aware, that we may close a vacancy earlier than stated should a sufficient number of applications be received from which a shortlist can be confirmed. Therefore, you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience.
The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.
If you are having difficulty completing an online application, or require any disability reasonable adjustments, to the application process, please contact [email protected]
We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.
The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager. No equality information is shared at any time during the recruitment process with the recruiting manager or other people involved in the decision-making process.
The equality monitoring information you provide is used in the following situations: to review our recruitment practices; where a job is limited to a specific person to verify their eligibility to apply; and to offer disability reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, please click here to check your eligibility before applying for this post as we may be unable to provide sponsorship.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Please note if applicable, applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.
If you have not already done so, you are therefore encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
Flexible Working
We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL. Changes made to the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook mean that:
· All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
· There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
· Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason.
At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to also discuss flexible working options at interview stage.
Working for Team MWL
Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Employee of the month. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
The Trust is a non-smoking across all our sites. Failure to follow this rule could lead to disciplinary action. For more information, see the Smoke Free NHS website
You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated.
Additional Information
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE, which can be found here.
An applicant guide to help and support you with your application and what to expect during your recruitment journey can be accessed in the supporting documents.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon.

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