Resource Scheduling Co-Ordinator

You will be required to support operations with a specific focus on working pattern flexibility, staff rota's, ensuring that capacity and demand is met, and that clinical colleagues and resources are allocated and utilised appropriately. You will need to work independently without direct day to day supervision and be able to time manage appropriately., To be a main point of contact for operational and support services staff to ensure that production of core rotas and schedule resources effectively according to the needs of the business.

All information held on the Global Rostering System (GRS) within the Trust are accurate and conform to Working Time Directive Regulations and Data Protection Act requirements. Training will be given for this.

To ensure that all staff have the correct hours according to their contract, annual leave allowance allocated to them in line with service level agreements and working time legislation.

To manage colleagues annual leave, sickness, training, rotas and various abstractions to ensure service level agreement.

To ensure the timely provision of analytical and statistical information from the Rostering system is correct, transparent and up to date.

It is important that you a computer literate as you will be required to work on our Global Rostering System and Microsoft Excel and Word on a daily basis., Many people think the job of the ambulance service is to collect patients and take them to hospital, but we do much more!

Paramedic skills have developed hugely in recent years, meaning we carry out more treatment at the scene and en-route to hospital.

We have a dedicated clinical assessment service that allows us to provide patients with the most appropriate care from the beginning of the patient journey.

We have a specialised branch of the Trust called HART which deal with explosions or terrorist attacks.

Ultimately patients are the heart of everything that we do to support our mission of "safe, effective and responsive care for all".

We value and respect the diversity employees bring to our workplace. We recruit a workforce that reflects the community we serve, and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. To ensure we deliver on our aims in relation to diversity and inclusion we assess ourselves against a range of frameworks. We are ENEI Gold employer, Disability Confident Leader, Dyslexia Smart Award employer, Dementia Friendly, and part of Mind Blue Light programme and the Race at Work Charter from the Princes Responsible Business Network and are achieving across all objectives in NHS Equality Delivery System.

We employ 3,500 staff in 63 locations and serve a population of 2,600,000 in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, and Tees over 3230 square miles.

37.5 hours per week - full timeWeekly shift patterns 07:00-15:00, 09:00-17:00 (flex), 11:00-19:00 Salary: £25,760 - £27,476Based in Newcastle Upon Tyne (this is not an agile role)

Are you looking for a fast paced, exciting and challenging new role with lots of career opportunities then we would love to hear from you!!

We have an exciting opportunity within our Resource Scheduling Department here at The North East Ambulance Service Foundation Trust. We are looking for quick thinking, energetic people who are organised and like to be part of a great team, there are lots of opportunities for further learning and development as well as working closely and collaboratively with the Operational staff around the Trust.