Emergency Centre Rota Coordinator
The closing date is 23 December 2025
Job summary
Are you highly organised, confident in building relationships and motivated to make a real difference to patient care? Come and join our team as a Rota Coordinator! This role is at the heart of ensuring safe and effective staffing across our Emergency Departments and Acute Medicine services.
You'll be responsible for managing the medical rotas for these departments, using your initiative to problem solve and provide solutions to rota issues, ensuring safe staffing to deliver the best care for our patients. You'll work closely with the clinical directors and operational team in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same!
Main duties of the job
- Review unexpected absences daily and use own initiative to find and enact solutions to ensure gaps in the rota are mitigated and services can provide safe level of cover, escalating areas of concern to the senior Operational Team if unable to resolve in a timely manner.
- Be responsible for arranging the provision of locum cover for doctors in the relevant grades, working with the Consultant in getting approval for CVs to allow Medical People Services to progress with agencies.
- Liaise with Agile directly when any urgent cover is required. This will involve the use of initiative and judgement to negotiate hours of cover with medical staff along with liaising with the relevant Consultant.
- Work with Agile, Consultant staff and medical teams to attempt to fill temporary vacancies and support them and the operational team in using own initiative to identify longer term solutions to gaps within the medical rota.
- Work with Medical People Services and Consultant Leads to review rotas ensuring early cover of known gaps.
- Establish and maintain effective administrative systems and processes between Medical People Services, HR and Payroll. Manage frequent change within these systems and update the Centre Management Team and relevant Consultants on progress of the systems and processes.
- Be responsible for liaising with Medical Staffing daily regarding the progress of vacant posts. Investigate the causes of any delays and action further with the appropriate staff to find resolution.
About us
Joining our team, you'll be working with a group of friendly, enthusiastic and caring people. We are committed to supporting each other and delivering the very best for our patients. This role provides an excellent opportunity for your career development. We'll provide the training, guidance and support required so that you can develop your skills while making a real impact each day.
Alongside this, you'll also get all the benefits of working for the NHS including an excellent pension, generous annual leave, and access to a wide range of staff discounts. SaTH is also proud to offer a variety of learning and development opportunities, flexible working options and access to health and wellbeing services.
If you have any questions about the role please don't hesitate to contact us, and we look forward to receiving your application!
Details
Date posted
09 December 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
223-RTC-727-B
Job locations
The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford
Apley Castle
Telford
TF1 6TF
Employer details
Employer name
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Address
The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford
Apley Castle
Telford
TF1 6TF
Employer's website
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