Medical Staffing Manager: Sponsorship Available

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced Medical Staffing Manager to join our team and lead the Medical Staffing and Education team, managing and supporting all aspects of medical staffing, including HR and education across the Trust.

We are looking for someone who has a medical staffing background, particularly specialist knowledge and experience of medical workforce terms and conditions, national and local strategies/initiatives, contract negotiations, policies and procedures to expertly manage the medical workforce and education service for the Trust. This includes an underpinning knowledge on key areas such as terms and conditions, job planning, training, rotas, on-call management, revalidation, medical education and study leave.

It is ‘essential’ that you are able to demonstrate your experience of implementing and advising doctors and managers on the various aspects described above.

As a Trust we are committed to staff development and to ‘growing our own talent’. In return we can offer a wealth of both in-house and external development opportunities, including the opportunity to do Affina Team Coaching.

You will report to the Associate Director of Medical Development and work in partnership with the Trust senior management and leadership supporting the delivery of medical workforce strategy.

Main duties of the job

  • Provide professional medical staffing advice to all levels of managers across the full range of employee relations issues
  • Oversight and supervision of the Medical Staffing and Education team (3 staff)
  • Build and maintain credible relationships with our resident doctors, consultants, specialist doctors and service managers across the trust, ensuring complex or sensitive information is communicated in a confident way
  • Act as a point of contact for managers and staff who are seeking advice on various policies and to analyse queries, offering solutions
  • Advise managers on all aspects of the medical recruitment processes, rotations, and job planning.

Person Specification

Education, qualifications or training

Essential

  • Degree level education or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
  • Specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate short courses, training or equivalent experience, in a relevant field
  • Leadership Qualification or equivalent experience

Continuous Professional Development

Essential

  • Evidence of continuous professional development
  • Demonstratable experience of working within medical staffing in a complex healthcare environment.
  • Demonstrable understanding of medical and dental terms and conditions.

Previous Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable experience of working autonomously to deliver high quality and evidence-based medical staffing advice and expertise.
  • Experience in making complex recruitment processes and ideally the appointment process for Consultant Medical Staffing.
  • Experience in rota development, management and pay processes
  • Experience providing inspiring and supportive leadership to junior colleagues through line management or day-to-day supervision.
  • Ability to lead training programmes or present to a variety of different stakeholders on matters related to medical staffing.
  • Uphold the Trust’s values of being caring, committed and working as team through demonstrable examples and experience.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Essential

  • Advanced use of digital tools and applications including Word, Outlook and PowerPoint.
  • Ability to generate and analyse complex data and make informed decisions, recommendations or form persuasive arguments on the basis of this.

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).

Closing Date: 16 September 2026

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