Medical Rostering Implementation Manager

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Medical Rostering Implementation Manager to lead the operational rollout, optimisation, and ongoing utilisation of our medical rostering system across gesh. This is a pivotal senior role within the Workforce Function, supporting our ambition to strengthen medical workforce visibility, improve efficiency, and enhance patient care through effective workforce deployment.

This is an exciting opportunity to take a leading role in transforming how we plan, deploy, and manage our medical workforce. You will help shape future ways of working, strengthen clinical services, and play an integral part in achieving the Trust’s workforce and patient‑care goals.

Main duties of the job

As the Medical Rostering Implementation Manager, you will:

• Lead the St George's implementation and ongoing improvement of medical rostering systems at Epsom & St Helier.
• Manage and develop the medical rostering implementation team, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
• Building strong relationships with operational teams, rota coordinators, divisional leaders, and senior clinicians to ensure safe and efficient workforce deployment.
• Present complex rostering and workforce information to senior colleagues, influencing decision‑making and workforce planning.
• Provide expert training to managers, clinicians, and system users through in‑person sessions, written materials, and e‑learning tools.
• Monitor compliance with national and Trust rostering policies, escalating risks where needed.
• Represent gesh at regional and national rostering and RLDatix user groups to stay aligned with NHS best practice and innovation.
• Lead the development of group wide medical rostering policies and supporting operational and medical teams to maximise system benefits.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details about the role.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

• Evidence of Continued Professional Development

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent practical experience

Desirable

• RL Datix Certification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Substantial knowledge of staff and relationship management techniques to manage team workload and agree solutions with service users across the group
• Extensive demonstrable experience of managing the implementation of medical electronic workforce systems, including medical rostering, mapped on call rotas, self-rostering, consultant contracts and junior doctor rota compliance
• Experience of generating and analysing reports and documents which contain complex data
• Demonstrable experience in implementing rostering systems
• Proven experience of Medical Workforce including leading change
• Experience of change management associated with new data and information workflows and the development o system KPIs
• Previous leadership experience working within an NHS environment.

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Ability to successfully plan/organise a broad range of ongoing, complex activities and adjustment of priorities and resourcing to meet evolving circumstances

• ·       Able to produce and develop complex and intuitive management reports to monitor utilisation, identify themes and trends and performance compliance
• ·       Ability to influence others to enable key decisions to be made in a timely fashion and able to challenge and drive new ways of working through rostering
• ·       Ability to write clear, concise and comprehensive documents/reports

• Effective communication and interpersonal skill, able to deal with Managers and staff at all levels efficiently and courteously and in a confident and assertive manner. Attend meetings and present to diverse groups of people
• Ability to develop and deliver presentations to groups of key stakeholders
• Excellent organisational skills