Senior Medical Staffing Officer

An opportunity has arisen to work as the Senior Medical Staffing Officer at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a team member who can work independently in ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of the service often within tight timescales, possess good communication skills and a visible, open, and collaborative leadership style that will be essential to supporting and developing a highly engaged Oxleas Medical workforce. The postholder should have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills and will provide support, expertise, and advice to the Clinical Directors, Associate Clinical Directors, Clinical Leads or Heads of medical profession in relation to the operational management of all medical staff.A good understanding of medical and dental terms and conditions of services is important. The postholder will provide expert advice and support to an allocated directorate(s) - CAHMs but will also manage a team of medical staffing officers who look after different boroughs andprovide cover in the absence of other Medical Staffing Officers. We are looking for someone with a can-do attitude.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care