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Deputy Medical Workforce Manager

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
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Location
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Profession
Manager and corporate
Grade
Band 6
Deadline
01 Jun 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
15 May 2025

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for someone experienced in Medical Workforce to progress into a managerial role. Under the direction of the Medical Workforce Manager, the post holder will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and enhancing a systematic and proactive approach to the delivery and management of medical workforce matters. This will require establishing and maintaining excellent working relationships with key clinical and management staff within the directorates. It will also require delivery that is within agreed objectives, targets, quality standards and cost constraints. The post holder will provide expert advice, guidance, and support regarding Trust policies and procedures, national terms and conditions etc. and provide guidance on workforce planning and local and national developments in relation to the medical workforce. They will also provide professional leadership to the Medical Workforce team and will contribute to their personal and professional development as appropriate. The post holder will have a breadth of specialist medical workforce knowledge and experience for example, job planning, rotas (including contractual rules), Lead Employer arrangements and Medical education (both undergraduate and post graduate training schemes).

Main duties of the job

Support the Medical Workforce Manager and the team in the effective delivery of the Trust’s medical workforce strategy.

Supervise the Medical Workforce function and the staff within the department.

Manage and support the Undergraduate and Postgraduate activities across the organisation, setting up and maintaining Quality Assurance processes within the Trust and wider organisations.

Ensure that the recruitment and selection of Consultants and Specialty Doctors is in accordance with the Royal College, SAS Charter and Statue guidelines. Updating organisational knowledge, policy and guidelines where a review or changes to good practice identify this requirement.

Manage and support the Clinical attachment process.

Ensure systems are in place to map all medical vacancies across the Trust on an on-going basis to support responsive activities and reduce reliance on temporary workforce

Contribute to a robust medical job planning process, working closely with Medical and Service Leads to ensure the management of effective job planning procedures including actively supporting the annual job planning cycle.

Support the development and maintenance of appropriate protocols and processes to ensure that all job plans are captured on the system, reviewed annually and stored for audit purposes.

Ensure that appropriate databases are maintained to monitor Consultant and SAS doctor annual appraisal working to National Guidance and ensure robust delivery locally.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for a full breakdown of the Deputy Medical Workforce Manager role.