E-Rostering Co-ordinator

Job summary

***Previous applicants need not apply***

E-Rostering Co-ordinator - Band 4 (Permanent Full Time) x 1

An exciting new opportunity to join the E-Rostering Team within the Trust, delivering daily, weekly and monthly activities to support all Workforce staff including Nursing and Medical workforce to utilise and maintain the electronic rosters.

Full training on the Allocate Suite will be provided for the appointable candidates, however a working knowledge of rostering systems, rota management and shared in box / diary management would be preferable.

These full time posts will be an integral part of the rostering team, providing day to day support and training for live rostered units and managers and will be based in an busy working office environment and from time to time may require some on-site meetings as appropriate.

Interacting closely with other HR teams, you will need to have a flexible approach to your work, as well as the ability to use your own initiative whilst working efficiently as part of the team.

Main duties of the job

To support the utilisation of e-Rostering across the organisation

To be the principle contact for the e-Rostering system, whether it be system support queries, internal requests for information or bespoke reporting, managing joiners and leavers or setting up new patterns on the system

To be a point of support to colleagues within the wider Rostering and Bank Teams

To monitor utilisation of the e-Rostering system to ensure best practice is being maintained and that the key stakeholders are aware of the support available from the Trust

To maintain and distribute support documentation and best practice guidance for the e-Rostering System

To recommend enhancements for the e-Rostering systems with the system provider and the Rostering Lead

To monitor effectiveness of the system and raise system support queries with the Supplier through to a state of resolve and escalating and concerns along the way

To monitor any system issues to ensure any downtime of the systems are escalated to the supplier at the earliest opportunity

To work collaboratively as required with the Rostering, Bank, Finance, HR and IT

To maintain user-guides and standard operating procedures ensuring a consistent approach across the department and Trust wide

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.