# Medical Workforce Operations Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/medical-workforce-operations-manager/7e11d642-0244-4333-9977-8d5ceb2a63e8 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/medical-workforce-operations-manager/7e11d642-0244-4333-9977-8d5ceb2a63e8.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust - **Town:** Plymouth - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Salary:** £49387.00 to £56515.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-13T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-31T13:18:58.957Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8174180 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8174180?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Medical Workforce Operations Manager Vacancy To assist in ensuring safe and effective workforce availability to provide medical care to patients within the Specialist & Emergency Care Division Provide day to day operational support to ensure safe staffing levels are maintained and deploy medical staff appropriate to patient need dealing with complex facts Leadership and oversight of medical staff recruitment across the Division to ensure timely and effective recruitment is in place Provide strategic leadership to the workforce plan for medical staff, including the consideration of non-medical roles that could provide capacity for the medical teams. Provide line management supervision to the medical rota team and oversee Trustwide medical staff work rotas, ensuring they are fit for purpose and flexible to meet capacity demands. ***Please note that applications from temporary workers who have been engaged with the Trust for a minimum of 3 months are welcome. *** ### Main duties of the job - Whilst working within broad occupational policy, ensure the day to day safe and effective staffing of inpatient areas. This will primarily be through the sufficient availability of junior medical staff but  additionally through the availability of non-medical roles that can support the medical teams. The post holder would have the responsibility to identify areas of risk and to negotiate and agree the movement  of medical resource within the organisation to ensure that patient safety is maintained and effective medical management is delivered    2. Provide oversight of the sufficiency of staffing in the short and medium term and support the service line teams to ensure that appropriate action is undertaken to secure locum or other staffing solutions are in  place to deal with predictable shortfalls in staff availability    3. Work in collaboration with the junior doctors and their representative committee to identify areas for improvement in the delivery model for both “in hours” and “out of hours” care    4. Be responsible for the strategic development of the medical workforce plan to include consideration of non-medical roles and the potential to support the needs of patients with less reliance on the availability  of junior doctors ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Whilst working within broad occupational policy, ensure the day to day safe and effective staffing of  inpatient areas. This will primarily be through the sufficient availability of junior medical staff but  additionally through the availability of non-medical roles that can support the medical teams. The post  holder would have the responsibility to identify areas of risk and to negotiate and agree the movement  of medical resource within the organisation to ensure that patient safety is maintained and effective  medical management is delivered    2. Provide oversight of the sufficiency of staffing in the short and medium term and support the service line  teams to ensure that appropriate action is undertaken to secure locum or other staffing solutions are in  place to deal with predictable shortfalls in staff availability    3. Work in collaboration with the junior doctors and their representative committee to identify areas for  improvement in the delivery model for both “in hours” and “out of hours” care    4. Be responsible for the strategic development of the medical workforce plan to include consideration of  non-medical roles and the potential to support the needs of patients with less reliance on the availability  of junior doctors    5. Be a key link with other stakeholder organisations to ensure that we are effectively supporting each  other and collaboratively ensuring safe and effective care within the organisation    6. Be responsible for the oversight of the GMC survey responses and develop actions and interventions to  respond to concerns and ensure that we are providing an appropriate workplace and learning  environment.    7. Ensure that doctors within medical specialties across the Trust are able to access the appropriate  educational and training experiences while ensuring robust and resilient ward cover is maintained at all  times.    8. Provide line management to the rota office to ensure that effective work rotas are in place for medical  staff across the Trust.     9. Support financial sustainability of the resident doctor population and contribute to key Trust savings  initiatives    10. Authorised signatory for small payments    11. Provide highly specialist workforce advice (in co-ordination with HR) For further information please see attached job description ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - Degree level qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience (acquired either through degree and professional qualification/experience) **Desirable** - Master level qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience (acquired either through degree and professional qualification/experience) ### Aptitude & Abilities **Essential** - Highly organised and able to plan and prioritise own workload and other administration members - Proven evidence of influencing others to achieve desired business aims - Excellent written communication, analytical, interpersonal and organisational skills - Able to deduce key points from large/complex volumes of numerical and other data - Proven ability to develop, agree and structure short, medium and long term plans and define complex programmes of work. - Excellent IT skills, in particular Word and Excel - Able to engage effectively in dialogue with individuals at all levels - Self starter able to meet deadlines and prioritise workload - Self motivated, proactive and resilient, takes responsibility for own actions - An inclusive team player who fosters partnerships, works collaboratively across boundaries and achieves results through others ### Knowledge & Experience **Essential** - Proven track record in operational management within a complex organisation - Demonstrable experience of producing large, complex documents - Evidence of workforce and succession planning - Demonstrable experience of leading organisational change management - Demonstrable track record of delivering targets and improving services - Demonstrable evidence of continual professional development - Demonstrable experience of line management and small team supervision **Desirable** - Knowledge of NHS structures, targets and KPI’s - Understanding of NHS terms and conditions - Knowledge of relevant employment legislation e.g. Working Time Directive ### Disposition, Attitude & Motivation **Essential** - Personal credibility, with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of others, including clinicians, managers, staff, patients, users of services - Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour ## Documents - [medical workforce operations manager (pdf, 384.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10504346) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.