The Medical Workforce Team Lead is responsible for managing a team that provides essential HR services across the Medical Workforce, ensuring the efficient and effective provision of administrative, transactional, and advisory support throughout the employee lifecycle., Managing Resident Doctors' onboarding, supporting Guardians of Safe Working Hours, compliance of work schedules, providing guidance on HR policies and procedures, and maintaining compliance with medical HR requirements.
The post holder will offer specialist advice on UKVI visa processes, medical HR compliance, job planning, and operational work schedules for Resident Doctors., + Oversee transactional processes for onboarding Resident Doctors, ensuring all aspects of recruitment, legal documentation, and induction requirements are met.
+ Provide specialist advice on UKVI visa applications and extensions, ensuring compliance with Home Office regulations.
+ Manage and update work schedules for Resident / Locally Employed Doctors ensuring compliance with NHS Terms and Conditions and Working Time Directive.
+ Participate in the development and implementation of job planning systems when required, ensuring consistency and compliance with the Trust's medical workforce requirements.
+ Actively engage in HR system usage, including TRAC and ESR, to ensure smooth and timely processing of recruitment and workforce data.
+ Handle escalated HR queries, providing high-quality, solution-focused advice.
+ Support the Guardians of Safe Working Hours in running Resident / Locally Employed Doctors Forums and addressing concerns regarding safe working practices.
+ Contribute to HR projects aimed at improving systems, processes, and overall service delivery.
+ Ensure all activities comply with NHS Employment Check Standards and relevant legislation.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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