Job summary
- Main area
- Admin
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 381-CO-7040336
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB
- Town
- West Bromwich
- Salary
- 拢29,970 - 拢36,483 per annum (Subject to banding)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/03/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 28/03/2025
Employer heading

Job Planning Manager
NHS AfC: Band 5
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff.
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do.
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives.
We run services from Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, Sandwell Health Campus, City Health Campus, Rowley Regis Community Hospital, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, The Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As 鈥淧eople鈥 is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
This is a newly created post to assist the trust with the rollout of electronic job planning for Medical Staff using the Allocate system.听听
You will be responsible for ensuring that all Consultants and SAS Doctors job plans are on the electronic job planning system and that job plans are consistent with the requirements of the agreed job planning policy.听
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Main duties of the job
- Maintain the information contained on the eJob Plan system to ensure all Job plans across the Trust are up to date and, on the system, and flag/escalate where there may be issues.
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Ensure all service users are set up and removed as necessary on the system in a timely manner.
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Undertake regular stocktake of users and Doctors on a regular (as a minimum on a quarterly basis) of the eJob Plan system against the doctors employed. Liaising with Medical Staffing Department where necessary
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Work with the Allocate Academy to ensure there is a robust training programme for all current operational and clinical new starters. This includes access being provided to users as necessary and review training material as deemed suitable for job planning system efficiency
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Attend and report to MJPSCG (Medical Job Planning Scrutiny and Consistency Group) led by Chief Operating Officer. This involves producing reports to MJSPCG detailing the status of Medical Job planning across the Trust and areas where decisions are required and any anomalies听
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care听organisation with a budget of approximately 拢600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.听
We have three strategic objectives:
- Our People 鈥 to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients 鈥 to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population 鈥 to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Knowledge acquired through relevant training or experience to degree or equivalent level (as a minimum good standard education at A Level)
- Commitment to undertake CIPD qualification
Desirable criteria
- Part or fully CIPD qualified
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant medical staffing or medical job planning experience within NHS Trust
- Experience in supporting the Job planning process
- Experience of interpreting and implementing the 2016 contract, Specialty Doctor Terms and Conditions of Service, Specialist Grade Terms and Conditions of Service, Consultant Terms and Conditions of Service
- Experience of working with eJob Plan & Activity modules on Allocate.
- Line management experience & ability to supervise the work of others
- Experience in working with Senior Managers and clinical staff within an NHS Trust
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience across HR teams
- Previous experience of working with Activity Manager within Allocate
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Philip Andrew
- Job title
- HR Business Partner (Medical Staffing Lead)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07875379166
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