Safe Staffing Rostering Analyst

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 06 May 2025

Job summary

Do you have experience in rostering ? Are you looking for your next step? Then we invite you to apply to join our workforce hub, as our new Safe Staffing Rostering Manager.

If successful, you will plan and monitor requests for change, updates and supporting users through the entire roster cycle. Coordinating team effort and resources, ensuring timely delivery, improving best practice and delivering a quality assured and expert level service to end users.

Your role will help ensure that the Trust operates a safe, consistent and cost effective Rostering service, with a focus on quality and patient safety, working closely with the temporary staffing service to support safe workforce models through effective planning and deployment of resources and challenging instances of poor or inadequate planning through the use of evidence based data and reference to best practice.

You will also, provide support to the team in order to deliver an effective, efficient and customer focused service, which meets the changing needs of the NHS, the organisation, managers, employees and members of the public.

Main duties of the job

If successful, some of your duties will include:

Working with clinical and corporate teams to review demand templates and support the outreach work of the Senior Advisors. Review patient acuity and support seasonal variation including surge activity.
Reviewing and distributing complex and volume operational data across all rostered staff-groups which contribute to the overall effectiveness of planned rosters including reference to Safe Care patient acuity and planned demand.
Working closely with the ER advisory team to understand and implement service and structure organisational changes execute the changes in a timely manner.
Travelling to any one of the MSE sites as required for meetings and to interact with clinical and corporate colleagues, supporting clinical requirements during surge/escalation activity, intake of newly qualified staff and planned service changes.

About us

With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Date posted

22 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

390-COR-BA-0461

Job locations

Basildon

Nethermayne

Basildon

SS16 5NL

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of this interesting role, which is pivotal to delivering quality and safe patient care, please see attached job description.

We look forward to receiving your application today.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of this interesting role, which is pivotal to delivering quality and safe patient care, please see attached job description.

We look forward to receiving your application today.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Degree Level or equivalent experience
Completed or working towards the Allocate Fundamentals Course

Desirable

Evidence of continuous professional Development

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

Knowledge and experience of workforce management using digital technology
Experience of supporting teams through change and supporting managers

Desirable

Supporting information demonstrates knowledge of the NHS pay and work structures
Experience of delivering training on digital systems

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Degree Level or equivalent experience
Completed or working towards the Allocate Fundamentals Course

Desirable

Evidence of continuous professional Development

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

Knowledge and experience of workforce management using digital technology
Experience of supporting teams through change and supporting managers

Desirable

Supporting information demonstrates knowledge of the NHS pay and work structures
Experience of delivering training on digital systems

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information