Head of Medical Staffing

**Head of Medical Staffing**:
**Band 8b**:
**Main area**
- Head of Medical Staffing
- **Grade**
- Band 8b
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-278**Site**
- To be confirmed
- **Town**
- Bodmin
- **Salary**
- £56,164 - £65,262 Per Annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 02/03/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
An exciting opportunity has become available within Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s to lead the Medical Staffing Team.

We are seeking a dynamic and tenacious Head of service who will be responsible for leading and managing a dedicated team of staff to develop the provision of a comprehensive Medical Staffing service which includes; recruitment, selection and retention of Medical Staff, rotation and deployment of clinicians, as well as offering specialist advice on Medical Staffing terms and conditions, performance management, appraisal and revalidation.

We are seeking a senior manager with the courage to implement new and innovative ways of working, the ability to lead from the front and develop and enable a team of staff with the desire to further improve and transform CFT’s Medical Staffing Service.

If you feel you have the qualities and attributes we are seeking

**Main duties of the job**:
To provide strategic leadership and overall responsibility for the delivery of a quality, comprehensive and customer focused professional Medical Staffing service that is aligned to the strategic and operational needs of the Trust. This includes overall leadership and management of the team, processes & policies, systems, associated SLAs & KPIs and day to day management of the Medical Staffing budget. To support the organisation to be effective, fit for purpose and to achieve its strategic objectives.

To oversee the implementation of best practice within Medical Staffing. Lead on the operational delivery and implementation of assigned strategy work plans, providing responsive and supportive solutions to on-going transformation within the Trust. Work closely with Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that programmes of work enable the Trust to transform according to wider strategic plans, meet its objectives and deliver against targets.

Through the delivery of a professional Medical Staffing Service, to ensure the Trust applies and maintains high standards of best practice that reflects changing employment legislation and trends, delivers operational and financial efficiency to develop a modern and healthy workplace for all employees.

Lead on the development, review, and implementation of Medical Staffing policies, interpreting and researching employment law and national NHS policy ensuring that legislative changes are reflected into policy, practice, and process.

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