Assistant Director, Medical Workforce

Do you have a background in Medical Workforce with a track record of leading a team to deliver high quality services to medical staff?

The post holder is a key member of the Workforce and OD Directorate Senior Management Team and will manage and lead the Medical Workforce teams and service across the Trust to deliver a professional and responsible medical workforce service.

The post holder will provide management and expert advice and guidance on all medical workforce related matters including terms and conditions, employee relations, job planning, appraisals, revalidation, rota design, and education, development and transformation.

Our teams work hard to be flexible and promote a health work/home life balance and so agile working options are automatically considered for all roles within the Trust. Talk to the Recruiting Manager about what this means in practice for you.

Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay and here are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

- Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
- Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
- Free staff car parking on all our hospital sites during this financial year
- In-house Physiotherapy Services
- Career development and training opportunities
- Emotional Wellbeing Service covering a range of online support, access to mobile apps and 24/7 counselling services
- Subsidised meals at our hospital restaurants
- Access to exclusive discounts, cashback and vouchers via NHS Discounts and Blue Light Card

If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team North West Anglia.

**Key Responsibilities**:
Provide flexible and proactive support to the Deputy Director of Workforce & OD, Medical Director, leads and managers in all matters pertaining to the management of the medical workforce.
- Provide professional support to Deputy Director of Workforce & OD, Medical leads and managers and Business Partner Team in all matters relating to medical employee relations, including supporting the management of highly complex cases up to and including Employment Tribunals and ensure this is in line with the Maintaining High Professional Standards Policy (MHPS).
- Provide leadership and management to the medical staffing and medical and dental education teams, ensure key objectives are achieved, the team are supported and developed effectively and in line with Trust Values.
- Develop and led a strategy on the management of rotas and identify and implement ways in which the Trust can improve its attraction and retention of trainees and equivalent Trust doctors in high quality jobs so that the Trust is seen as the centre of excellence alongside ensuring legal, patient safety and financial implications are addressed.
- Provide expert advice and support to all members of the Trust involved in formal employee relations action which will to notify and liaise with PPA NHS Resolution
- Work with our Workforce & OD colleagues to provide senior level of expertise and guidance on all medical and dental policies and awareness of all employment law changes to reflect all Medical and Dental Terms and conditions for all grades of Medical Doctors ensuring policies are written in line with best practice and legal requirements that can be applied by managers in support of Trust business and objectives.
- Ensure the development of policy is aligned to the strategic goals of the Trust and reflective of wider change in the employee relations environment such as employment legislation, case law, changes to professional codes of conduct and other factors
- Work closely with the Resourcing Manager to lead the development and implementation of recruitment strategies to support and address key medical priorities.
- Work with all other areas of the Workforce and Organisational Development Directorate to deliver medical workforce strategies, policies and practices that are aligned with the Trusts purpose, objectives and values
- Lead the development and maintenance of a framework of offering that provides continued education and training of the Trust’s medical senior leaders and managers
- Provide support to the Local Negotiating Committee, developing excellent relationships with key stakeholders and ensuring good attendance and actions following the meetings are undertaken and cascaded to the Medical and Dental workforce.
- Produce timely relevant reports, information and statistics and contribute to the development of appropriate Key Performance Indicators relating to medical workforce.
- Proactively support the medical leads to ensure the achievement of compliance of the medical workforce across a range of mandatory training and education requirements.
- Provide proactive expert advice and training as appropriate to Medical Leads and Junior Doctor Representatives on all matters of medical wo