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Medical Workforce Lead (Medicine)

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Worcester, WR5 1DDView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515

Contract

Fixed-Term

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

25 October 2026

5 days left

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for a Medical Workforce Lead within the Medicine and Emergency Care Group at Worcestershire Royal Hospital. We are looking f...

with the Care Group Management Team and Directorate Managers to support

effective medical workforce management; identify resourcing risks and develop

project plans and strategies to improve efficiency and mitigate risk

Lead

effective roster management, including oversight of temporary medical staffing,

to ensure value for money and delivery of the Cost Productivity Improvement

Programme (CIP) through reduced agency usage

and implement processes that improve efficiency and compliance, and reduce

expenditure. Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to deliver

an excellent service to internal customers, providing support to other teams

during periods of peak demand as required.

the management of sickness absence for the medical workforce, ensuring

return-to-work discussions are completed and, where trigger points are met,

formal action is initiated in a timely manner. This requires close working with

Clinical Leads, Educational Supervisors, Directorate Managers and HR advisers

Work

with colleagues to develop preventative and targeted support to address areas

of high sickness absence, linking with workplace wellbeing initiatives to

promote attendance

Manage

the Rota Co-ordinators

Provide

advice and guidance to the Care Group on resident doctor management, including

induction.

Support

the Care Group Medical Leadership with job planning.

Work

with the e-rostering team to support delivery of medical rostering across the

Care Group.

with the Care Group Management Team and Directorate Managers to support

effective medical workforce management; identify resourcing risks and develop

project plans and strategies to improve efficiency and mitigate risk.

Lead

effective roster management, including oversight of temporary medical staffing,

to ensure value for money and delivery of the Cost Productivity Improvement

Programme (CIP) through reduced agency usage.

and implement processes that improve efficiency and compliance, and reduce

expenditure. Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to deliver

an excellent service to internal customers, providing support to other teams

during periods of peak demand as required.

the management of sickness absence for the medical workforce, ensuring

return-to-work discussions are completed and, where trigger points are met,

formal action is initiated in a timely manner. This requires close working with

Clinical Leads, Educational Supervisors, Directorate Managers and HR advisers.

with colleagues to develop preventative and targeted support to address areas

of high sickness absence, linking with workplace wellbeing initiatives to

promote attendance (e.g., the Trusts Psychological Wellbeing Service).

Manage

the rota co-ordinators.

Provide

advice and guidance to the Care Group on resident doctor management, including

induction.

Support

the Associate Chief Medical Officer with job planning.

Work

with the e-rostering team to support delivery of medical rostering across the Care

Group.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large

acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute

services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a

larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from

three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our

caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred

care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to

work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our

everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise

accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working

within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a

DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check

(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting

Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Supporting Statement

Essential

  • Please provide a covering statement here, setting out how you meet the requirements of the role and the drivers for your application. The Person Specification for this role can be found attached to this advert in the "Supporting Documents" section.

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Provenance

Source

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First seen

12 October 2026

Last checked

13 October 2026

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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

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