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Lead Rota Co-ordinator

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Ashington, NE63 9JJView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£28,392 to £31,157

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

1 November 2026

13 days left

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time (30 hours per week) rota co-ordinator to join the Surgical Information team. You will need excellen...

Generate and manage surgical/anaesthetic rotas and to investigate and resolve scheduling enquiries as they arise.

Investigates rota enquiries from consultants and doctors and assigns and/or reallocated resources where required.

Receiving updates to published rotas, analysing the impact of these changes and if necessary, escalating any unresolved issues to the surgical/anaesthetic consultant before updating the scheduling system.

The post holder has a high degree of autonomy, working closely with the clinical leads, escalating and resolving roster problems directly with the clinicians rather than line management.

  • Communicate with consultant and doctors, senior managers, secretaries and administration staff for the allocation of clinical sessions, on call duties and leave.
  • Translates complex data into an easily understood format including gathering information such as job plans, leave requests, on call requirements and matching this against clinic/theatre availability.
  • Analyse information relating to clinical rotas, theatre schedules and on call rotas and highlight issues with resource allocations and/or gaps in the timetables.
  • Supporting the Resident Doctor rotations by enquiring known leave and training requirements, assigning doctors to the on-call templates and presenting at doctors induction.
  • Informing OSMs, Consultants and colleagues of Resident Doctors sick leave and ensuring rotas comply with EWTD.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

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Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ3 or equivalent knowledge gained through a minimum two years experience of working in a job using one or more computer systems / rota management
  • Maths proficiency level required for this post - min Functional skills L2

Desirable: - ECDL

Experience and knowledge

Essential: - Experience communicating with staff at all levels verbally and written; - Further knowledge to diploma level or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Previous Rota Coordinator experience
  • Previous NHS experience working with ward based clinical staff
  • Previous supervisory experience in NHS admin or similar healthcare service
  • Experience using MS Excel
  • Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
  • Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

Other requirements

Essential

  • You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

How to apply

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Provenance

Source

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First seen

16 October 2026

Last checked

19 October 2026

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About the employer

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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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