Rota Co-Ordinator - Medicine & Urgent Care Division
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Prescot, L35 5DRView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£28,392 to £31,157
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
28 October 2026
9 days leftJob description
An exciting opportunity has come available for a Rota Co-ordinator in the Medical and Urgent Care division. The postholder will have overall operation...
The successful post holder will have overall responsibility for ensuring that the Care Group has sufficient medical cover to meet the service demands. You will work closely with Medical and Urgent Care Group Management and Clinical teams to ensure that all medical rotas within the Care Group are compliant and produced in a timely manner, utilising both existing and temporary staff in the most appropriate and cost-effective manner.
You will provide an efficient service to the Trust, ensuring robust plans are in place to develop and improve the administrative role in line with new medical rota practices. This role is challenging and demanding and will require excellent time management, interpersonal and organisation skills.
You must be able to prioritise their own workload and will require a flexible approach to their duties and cross cover the Medicine Rota Co-ordinator as and when required. You must be able to communicate effectively with staff at all levels within the organisation and be responsible in ensuring optimum use of physical capacity throughout medical teams to deliver service needs.
- Design, prepare and publish the medical on call rota, inclusive of POD Rota within the Medicine & UEC Division within agreed timescales.
- To support the design and maintenance of medical on call rotas, inclusive of POD Rotas, in line with the relevant medical terms and conditions of employment and the needs of the service.
- Co-Ordinate the provision of medical cover to provide short, medium and long-term solutions including medical cover out of hours across the Medicine & UEC Division.
- Work closely with staffing solutions, HR to indicate any temporary medical locum cover required once all alternative options have been exhausted
- Adhere to all trust and nationally agreed rules / terms and conditions around the use of bank and agency staff
- Monitoring of the use of annual and study leave for all doctors ensuring that the correct level of cover is provided at all times. This would also include the arrangement of cover during examination and junior doctor rotation.
- Be the main point of contact for all junior doctors rotating to trust including the co-ordination of the bleeps and to attend Grand Round and other relevant induction sessions.
- Liaise with staffing solutions, HR to arrange payment for any additional sessions undertaken inclusive of all medical grades.
- Escalate complex queries to Associate Directorate Manager / Assistant Directorate Manager.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Qualifications
Essential: - Educated to Diploma Level or Equivalent
Desirable: - NVQ Level 3 Business Administration or higher
Knowledge & Experience
Essential: - Experience of liaising with medical staff in an NHS setting; - Experience of maintaining robust electronic systems
Desirable: - Experience of Medical Rota Management; - Experience of producing on-call rotas
Skills
Essential
- IT Literate including Microsoft Outlook, Word Excel & Access
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt to the stakeholder audience
- Ability to work on own initiative and schedule work to meet deadlines
- Ability to work within a busy environment and under pressure
- Ability to prioritise, take ownership and manage workload
- Flexible attitude towards work, tasks and changing priorities
Other
Essential: - Ability to work as part of a larger team; - Flexible to meet to needs of the service
How to apply
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First seen
14 October 2026
Last checked
16 October 2026
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