Resourcing Assistant

Main area Resourcing Temporary Staffing Grade NHS AfC:
Band 3 Contract 12 months (Secondment or Fixed term contract) Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (Occasional weekend work may be required) Job
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8343-HC

Site Bedford Hospital Town Bedford Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/10/2026 23:59

We are looking for an enthusiastic, efficient Resourcing Assistant to join our busy Resourcing Temporary Staff team at Bedfordshire Hospitals to cover a team member on a 1 year secondment. This will be a 1 year secondment or fixed term contract.

You will be friendly with a professional attitude and have the ability to work on your own and as part of a team actively encouraging and supporting colleagues.

This role would suit a dynamic individual who thrives in a busy office environment and is a flexible team player. Duties will include providing a comprehensive administration service including the booking of both bank and agency staff, ensuring resourcing staff are up to date with mandatory training and facilitating an efficient temporary staffing service for all staff. You will also be expected to process temporary staffing bookings, deal with bank and pay enquiries, ensure accurate information is maintained on the rostering/booking systems and undertake all administration duties related to this.

Working hours could include occasional weekend working.

To contribute to the delivery of an efficient and effective resourcing service through a professional, customer-focused approach. This includes the booking of both bank and agency staff where required to fill gaps in the service. Also ensuring accurate information is maintained on the e-rostering system and other information systems. This role also includes liaising with bank staff to ensure their statutory training modules are kept up to date and facilitating bookings where required.

To act as first point of contact for enquiries and providing advice and support to bank staff with payroll enquiries, claim forms and staff wishing to join or leave the bank.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff.

As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarise yourself with all requirements of the job

Please see attached Job Description.

Customer Service

Provide excellent customer service to all recruitment and resourcing service stakeholders, in an efficient and effective manner promoting the service and adhering to agreed quality standards

Act as a point of contact for first line enquiries in the recruitment and resourcing service through the contact hotline, communicating with bank staff and users throughout the Trust and external agencies as required

Provide advice and support to bank staff with payroll enquiries, dealing with sensitive information relating to staffing payroll records.

Resourcing Allocation

First point of contact for any bank pay queries liaising with Payroll where necessary.

Process paperwork for staff joining and leaving the bank.

Run regular reports of bank staff who are not actively working and process…