Lead Rota Co-ordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time (30 hours per week) rota co-ordinator to join the Surgical Information team. You will need excellent planning and organisation skills.

The successful candidate will be part of an established team and you will be responsible for the day to day management of consultant and doctors rotas.

We are looking for a friendly, organised person who is able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, Applicants need to be able to work independently and on their own. This is a varied and busy role that is vital to the smooth running of the service., Generate and manage surgical/anaesthetic rotas and to investigate and resolve scheduling enquiries as they arise.

Investigates rota enquiries from consultants and doctors and assigns and/or reallocated resources where required.

Receiving updates to published rotas, analysing the impact of these changes and if necessary, escalating any unresolved issues to the surgical/anaesthetic consultant before updating the scheduling system.

The post holder has a high degree of autonomy, working closely with the clinical leads, escalating and resolving roster problems directly with the clinicians rather than line management.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!