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Medical Rostering Administrator

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
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Location
Salary
£26,530 - £29,114 per annum plus HCAS
Profession
Administrative and IT
Grade
Band 4
Deadline
07 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
26 Jun 2025

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity  to join our small but enthusiastic Medical Rostering Team based at Catford.

As part of our team you would provide first line support to system users, liaise with Roster Managers and Rota Coordinators to support the Resident Doctors' rotations and support the e-Rostering roll out to our consultants and SAS Doctors.

You should be competent in rota management and have previous experience working with  an e-Rostering system preferably RLDatix Optima. You should also have a working knowledge of Resident's Doctors contractual terms and conditions and consultants' Job Planning process

The successful candidate should have the interpersonal skills to establish good working relationships with system users, senior managers and senior medics staff as well as colleagues and peers.  You will be happy working as apart of a team and collaborating with others to achieve team's objectives and deadlines.  You should be able to communicate effectively, prioritise your workload and be enthusiastic about technology  embracing new ways of doing things.  You should be competent in the use of MS Office and Office 365.

Main duties of the job

To support the Medics Business As Usual Function and  provide  advice, support and technical expertise to system users at all levels.

  • Participate in improving and maximising the utilisation of the e-Rostering system providing training and support to rota coordinators and managers. t To manage the Resident Doctors' rotations, checking rota patterns for compliance and advising on best practice. To analyse complex medical rotas and transfer them to the e-Rostering system, creating the necessary shift groups, locations, demand templates and patterns. To build medical staff records on the e-Rostering system,  calculate and add annual leave and study leave entitlements while maintaining a high level of accuracy. To support the implementation and maintenance of consultants job plans on the system as well as the rostering of programmed activities. To manage the interface between eRota, eJP and Optima for the upload of compliant rotas and job plans. To create and update user login accounts to all system users. ·

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To support the Medics Business As Usual Function and  provide  advice, support and technical expertise to system users at all levels.

  • Participate in improving and maximising the utilisation of the e-Rostering system providing training and support to rota coordinators and managers. t To manage the Resident Doctors' rotations, checking rota patterns for compliance and advising on best practice. To analyse complex medical rotas and transfer them to the e-Rostering system, creating the necessary shift groups, locations, demand templates and patterns. To build medical staff records on the e-Rostering system,  calculate and add annual leave and study leave entitlements while maintaining a high level of accuracy. To support the implementation and maintenance of consultants job plans on the system as well as the rostering of programmed activities. To manage the interface between eRota, eJP and Optima for the upload of compliant rotas and job plans. To create and update user login accounts to all system users.