Job Title
Locum Resource Coordinator
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Part time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
22.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits.
Category
HR Generalists
Closing Date
16 February 2026
About this job.
The Healthcare Resource Coordinator role is designed to deliver all retail locum resource requirements, ensuring a safe and efficient operation across Optical and Pharmacy departments.
Specialised area subject matter expert who will be the key link between placing third party resource in to Optical and Pharmacy to meet Asda's requirement for locums - booking cover for 411 units.
What you'll do.
The Healthcare resource coordinator will provide day to day retail rota support centrally to both locums and resident healthcare professionals. Driving cost savings through effective planning
Provide support to area managers in resolving operational people planning issues for professionals
Provide stores with the required third party resource needed to meet NHS Contractual Requirements. Locate a Locum SME
Deliver on smart efficiencies in the Optical and Pharmacy estate across all locum and resident cover planning
Escalate to the Healthcare resource manager any risks that are identified.
How you'll do it.
Knowledge.
A basic knowledge of ASDA Opticians and Pharmacy.
Communicating and Influencing.
The Healthcare resource coordinator will need to communicate clearly with stores, field and central teams as well as locums.
Freedom to Think and Act.
This role is purely transactional with direct guidance coming from the relevant process guides and policies.
Confidence to challenge, escalate and influence at all levels
Ability to act quickly to solve problems
Who you'll work with.
Area Field teams
Central compliance and operations teams
All locums
Locate a locum support team
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
* Discretionary company bonus
* Company pension up to 7% matched
* 15% colleague discount in store and online
* Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas
* Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
* Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves