Medical Workforce - Operations and Productivity Lead

Job overview

The Operations and Productivity Lead role will provide forward-thinking operational and project leadership to the medical directorate, and medical staff management in general, ensuring both stakeholder engagement and an effective standard of organisation of the processes related to medical staff management.

The post-holder will be a core member of the Medical Directorate Management Team, working to support the Chief Medical Officer and Associate Medical Director for Workforce to deliver the long-term medical workforce strategy. The post-holder will be expected to lead on and apply a programme management approach to projects within the medical workforce portfolio as they present themselves, with the aim of ensuring that the medical workforce adapts to the changing availability of medically trained staff and in addition meets the levels of attainment as set out by NHS Improvement.

There is a current focus on medical job planning, both ensuring a consistently high rate and improving the quality of job planning, and the measurement of job planned activity. Experience in medical job planning would therefore be of benefit.

Main duties of the job

Leading on the delivery of e-Job Planning and Productivity:

There is a current focus on medical job planning, both ensuring a consistently high rate and improving the quality of job planning, and the measurement of job planned activity.  The post-holder will be expected to provide support to the medical workforce to enable them to complete their job plans, have sufficient knowledge of data analysis to provide accurate figures for the rates of job plan completion at all levels to complete the NHS England returns and complete bespoke reports as requested. It is also hoped that the successful candidate will be able to continue programmes of work which are aimed at the measurement of job planned activity.

Other areas of work include

include the delivery of workstreams that improve medical staff management and productivity, such as, (but not limited to) the following:

• Leading on the procurement of software packages (medical workforce management)
• Leading on the evaluation and introduction of e-rostering packages
• Leading, managing, or supporting in the evaluation of new staffing models
• Leading, managing, or supporting other projects as suggested by outputs from regulatory and advisory bodies such as the General Medical Council, NHS Improvement, NHS Employers and NHS England

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Operations and Productivity Lead role will provide forward-thinking operational and project leadership to the medical directorate, and medical staff management in general, ensuring both stakeholder engagement and an effective standard of organisation of the processes related to medical staff management.

The post-holder will be a core member of the Medical Directorate Management Team, working to support the Chief Medical Officer and Associate Medical Director for Workforce to deliver the long-term medical workforce strategy. The post-holder will be expected to lead on and apply a programme management approach to projects within the medical workforce portfolio as they present themselves, with the aim of ensuring that the medical workforce adapts to the changing availability of medically trained staff and in addition meets the levels of attainment as set out by NHS Improvement. This will specifically include the delivery of workstreams that improve medical staff management and productivity, such as, (but not limited to) the following:

• Leading on the procurement of software packages (medical workforce management)
• Leading on the evaluation and introduction of e-rostering packages
• Leading on the delivery of e-Job Planning and Productivity
• Leading, managing, or supporting in the evaluation of new staffing models
• Leading, managing, or supporting other projects as suggested by outputs from regulatory and advisory bodies such as the General Medical Council, NHS Improvement, NHS Employers and NHS England.