Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Temporary Staffing Compliance Officer

The closing date is 22 March 2026

Job summary

We're excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Temporary Staffing Compliance Officer to become a key part of our professional, fast-paced Temporary Staffing Team at the Royal Surrey.

Our team plays a vital role in ensuring wards and departments have the right skilled people in place, managing the booking of temporary workers through our electronic systems and supporting safe staffing across the Trust.

As our Temporary Staffing Compliance Officer, you will:

  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date training and compliance records for all bank and agency staff
  • Ensure every temporary worker meets Trust standards for recruitment, training, and professional registration
  • Provide essential administrative support to help deliver smooth, efficient deployment and payment processes
  • Be the first point of contact for temporary staff, assisting with queries around compliance, shift bookings or cancellations, pay, system issues, and general enquiries

Please note Excel and Office proficiency is essential for this role.

This is a site-based role at the Royal Surrey, and interviews will be held in person.

Please note: Previous applicants do not need to apply again.

Main duties of the job

  • To create and maintain accurate training records to ensure that all bank and agency staff supplied to the Trust meet all Trust requirements relating to recruitment, training and relevant registrations and provide administrative support to ensure the effective deployment, management and payment of temporary staff (bank and agency) in accordance with policies and procedures.
  • To ensure the temporary staffing requirements are dealt with in a timely and cost effective manner by close liaison with the team, department managers and ward matrons, ensuring all flexible staffing requirements are documented as per Trust procedures and filled as appropriate via the rostering systems.
  • Be accountable and to act as the first point of contact for all temporary staff and assist with any queries that may arise, such as compliance, booking/cancelling their shifts, pay queries, system issues or general enquiries

About us

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo

Details

Date posted

06 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£28,860 to £31,671 a year Pro Rata Per Annum inc. HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

384-RD-TSC-B

Job locations

Royal Surrey Hospital

Egerton Road

Guildford

GU2 7XX


Job description

Job responsibilities

To support the temporary staffing service in delivering an efficient, professional, and high quality temporary staffing service ensuring to provide a high quality and responsive service to Trust managers and employees, including compliance with required procedures, processes and standards.

To continuously monitor systems to ensure that workers who do not meet Trust requirements are identified and appropriate action taken. Trust requirements will include, but are not limited to, the following;- Mandatory training requirements- Professional registrations- DBS- Right to Work- Occupational Health status

Keep up to date with all relevant Trust policies and legislation relating to own role, including the Trust Pre-Employment & Employment Checks, NHS Employers Identity Checks, Home Office Right to Work ID checks and EU Settlement regulations. Inputting and manipulating data from more than one database. Organise data audits to provide assurance of information reported and make recommendations based on the audit findings.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To support the temporary staffing service in delivering an efficient, professional, and high quality temporary staffing service ensuring to provide a high quality and responsive service to Trust managers and employees, including compliance with required procedures, processes and standards.

To continuously monitor systems to ensure that workers who do not meet Trust requirements are identified and appropriate action taken. Trust requirements will include, but are not limited to, the following;- Mandatory training requirements- Professional registrations- DBS- Right to Work- Occupational Health status

Keep up to date with all relevant Trust policies and legislation relating to own role, including the Trust Pre-Employment & Employment Checks, NHS Employers Identity Checks, Home Office Right to Work ID checks and EU Settlement regulations. Inputting and manipulating data from more than one database. Organise data audits to provide assurance of information reported and make recommendations based on the audit findings.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to A Level / NVQ Level 3 standard or equivalent knowledge gained through experience

Desirable

  • CIPD Qualification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable previous general administration experience within a busy office environment
  • Experience of dealing with confidential issues and providing a service to others
  • Ability to organise and prioritise own workload and to work under pressure and within agreed guidelines
  • Competent in Microsoft Office - Word, Outlook, Excel Spreadsheets, PowerPoint
  • Experience using e-bookings system

Desirable

  • Previous experience working within the NHS
  • Human Resources experience
  • Staff supervision and training
  • Health based e-rostering systems
  • NHS systems (Electronic Staff Record (ESR), Allocate packages, Locums Nest, Plus Us)
  • Experience in Compliance Management
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to A Level / NVQ Level 3 standard or equivalent knowledge gained through experience

Desirable

  • CIPD Qualification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable previous general administration experience within a busy office environment
  • Experience of dealing with confidential issues and providing a service to others
  • Ability to organise and prioritise own workload and to work under pressure and within agreed guidelines
  • Competent in Microsoft Office - Word, Outlook, Excel Spreadsheets, PowerPoint
  • Experience using e-bookings system

Desirable

  • Previous experience working within the NHS
  • Human Resources experience
  • Staff supervision and training
  • Health based e-rostering systems
  • NHS systems (Electronic Staff Record (ESR), Allocate packages, Locums Nest, Plus Us)
  • Experience in Compliance Management

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Surrey Hospital

Egerton Road

Guildford

GU2 7XX


Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Surrey Hospital

Egerton Road

Guildford

GU2 7XX


Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Temporary Staffing Operations Manager

Samantha Lord Burns

s.burns15@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

06 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£28,860 to £31,671 a year Pro Rata Per Annum inc. HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

384-RD-TSC-B

Job locations

Royal Surrey Hospital

Egerton Road

Guildford

GU2 7XX


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