Job planning and medical staffing manager

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

We are pleased to advertise an exciting opportunity for an experienced workforce professional with a passion for delivering high‑quality medical workforce services. If you have a strong interest in leading end‑to‑end medical job planning processes, managing a dynamic medical staffing team, strengthening governance, and driving service excellence, this role may be the perfect next step.

We are seeking a proactive, collaborative, and forward‑thinking Job Planning & Medical Staffing Manager to join our Medical Workforce team. This is a pivotal role that will help shape how we support our Consultant, SAS, and Resident Doctor workforce across the Trust.

As the Job Planning & Medical Staffing Manager, you will take responsibility for the full delivery of the Trust’s medical job planning cycle, ensuring compliance with national terms and conditions, embedding robust governance, and promoting a fair and consistent approach across all specialties. You will also lead and develop the medical staffing team, overseeing resident doctor rotations, supporting delivery of the 10‑point plan, and ensuring effective workforce utilisation through high‑quality operational processes.

This is a pivotal role requiring experience of supporting clinical leaders in job planning, excellent communication, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work confidently with senior clinical leaders, operational managers, and corporate teams.

Main duties of the job

The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders such as Chief Medical Officers, Medical education colleagues, Finance, and lead the medical staffing team to ensure a responsive, comprehensive and professional service is delivered to all stakeholders.
They will also provide a central access point for expert medical workforce support and advice, to enable the delivery of Trust priorities and support the services with robust decision-making advice and information.
The post holder will constructively challenge, with a view to improving, all aspects of medical staffing operational performance across the Trust.
Support the Assistant Director of Medical Workforce & Medical Education with the implementation of job plans and medical policies and interpret national guidelines to ensure best practice is reflected in Trust policies and processes.
The postholder will be responsible for maintaining and reviewing Medical Workforce policies (e.g., annual leave, job planning etc.)

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The post holder will be required to line manage the Medical Staffing function on a day to-day basis, overseeing junior doctor rotations, terms and conditions for all grade of medical staff across the trust and supporting the Divisions with recruitment of medical staff in corroboration with recruitment team.

• Work with Assistant Director of Medical Workforce and Education on the design, development, negotiation, implementation and monitoring of all operational matters related to pay, contracts, terms and conditions for all doctors employed by the Trust.

• Ensure processes are in place for the review and smooth running of all medical rotas and on-call rotas in collaboration with rota coordinators.

• Develop strategic medical staffing capacity across the Trust through effective collaboration and management of the Rota Coordinators.

• Support the Assistant Director of Medical Workforce & Medical Education in the delivery of Trust priorities, in particular, managing the Medical Workforce Cost Improvement Plan workstreams across the Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust.

• Support the Assistant Director of Medical Workforce & Medical Education to develop and maintain a local medical workforce plan to enable the service to meet present and future service challenges and financial targets ensuring appropriate stakeholder involvement.

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We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.