This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a developing team who strive to go above and beyond for our Resident Doctors. In our team we recognise how busy our doctors are and aim to ensure that we alleviate any further stress by ensuring rosters are finalised ahead of time, leave requests are responded to and ensure they are paid correctly.
This role is to manage the Medicine and Older Persons Services Resident doctors rotas. The candidate will work alongside other Rota Coordinators to ensure smooth running of the day to day service.
• Alongside the consultants, create, implement and co-ordinate a compliant 24 hour rota for Post Graduate doctors in training.
• Act as Rota Co-ordinator across the areas of responsibility and where required taking full responsibility for decision making on a day to day basis, and being the point of contact for all enquiries concerning on call rotas, annual leave, study leave and sick leave.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital - occasionally working at Poole Hospital will be required
Interview Date: TBC
• Attend morning huddle and ensure staffing is safe across Medicine & OPS.
• Responsible for recording doctor annual/study/sick leave and escalate to relevant Clinical Directors, Managers or Consultants areas of concern or threats to service continuity.
• Ensure the on-call consultant rota is always adequately up to date on Rota Watch.
• Manage the recruitment process and onboard new Trust Grade Doctors. Ensure fixed term contracts are regularly reviewed.
• Take the lead on sickness management for our doctors, lead return to work meetings and refer to Occupational Health where necessary.
• Attend bi-weekly Clinical Leads meeting presenting staffing report.
• Cross cover other Rota Coordinators due to annual/sick leave across the Medical & OPS care group for UHD.
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.
Responsible for ensuring Medicine and OPS wards across both sites are staffed adequately in line with the daily minimum numbers. Responsible for being a support system for our doctors and manage leave requests and sickness.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
This advert closes on Sunday 27 Apr 2025
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