Rota Co-Ordinator - Medicine & Urgent Care Division

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Main area Administration Grade NHS AfC:
Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am-3:30pm) Job  

Site Whiston Hospital Town Prescot Salary £28,392 - £31,157 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 28/10/2026 23:59

An exciting opportunity has come available for a Rota Co-ordinator in the Medical and Urgent Care division.

The postholder will have overall operational responsibility for ensuring that the Medicine & UEC Division has sufficient medical cover to meet service demand.

The post holder will work closely with the Medicine & UEC Division management and clinical teams to ensure that all medical rotas with the division are EWTD and new deal compliant and produced in a timely and efficient manner utilising both existing and temporary staff in the most appropriate and cost effective manner.

The successful post holder will have overall responsibility for ensuring that the 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 Medicine 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.

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