Job summary
- Main area
- eRostering
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 381-CO-7043110
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- West Bromwich
- Salary
- 拢37,338 - 拢44,962 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Medical Workforce Systems Lead
NHS AfC: Band 6
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
Following the development of the Rostering Team within Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospital NHS Trust. We have a new vacant role reporting to the eRostering Manager.
This role is technical implementation, focusing on eJob Plan, Activity Manager, and providing technical support to the Job Planning Leads and the medical services areas.
The postholder will contribute to decisions regarding rostering implementation and collaborate with the Medical HR Team to organise workload and priorities.听 Additionally, they will also contribute to the rollout of the Activity Manager elements of the Medical Workforce Systems Programme. This role entails assisting clinicians, administrative teams, and management in finding viable solutions for their workforce, ensuring effective time planning and management, and enhancing the Trust's capacity to safeguard staff wellbeing
Main duties of the job
Day to day line management responsibility for e-Job Plan and other associating Medics Workforce Systems
To Support the implementation of e-Job Plan and Optima for Medics, by reviewing and updating the current Trust Job Planning policy. Ensure that all Consultant/SAS job plans are maintained within the e-Job Plan (Allocate) system and are consistently up to date with updates made directly at the source.
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Ensuring there is an enhance performance and elevate patient experience by aligning the delivery of safe care with the principles of providing the right care, at the right time, and by the right individual
Working with the departmental teams (clinical and non-clinical teams) to ensure that the e-job planning system is utilized effectively and fully meet the needs of the individual departments and the Trust as a whole.
Work with HR to validate data between Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and e-job plan and other Medics Workforce Systems
It is essential that you are able to work as part of a team or work on your initiative.
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
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens this year and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH . If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continue your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.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 details on the main duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering against internal / external SLAs
- Experience of using Allocate HealthRoster
- Experience of working in a customer service / helpdesk environment
- Systems administration experience
- Experience of designing and delivering training
- Experience in producing reports in Excel
Desirable criteria
- Experience of database management
- 鈥 Supervisory experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Allocate academy/Educated to HR / business / systems degree level or equivalent academic standard, or equivalent experience
- ECDL or Microsoft Office Specialist qualification, or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Prince II Practictioner
- Relevant Project management experience
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dan Peniket
- Job title
- Head of People Analytics and Optimisation
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 553 1831
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