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Band 7
Full-time

Medical Staffing Manager

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation TrustProspect Park Hospital, Honey End Ln, Reading RG30 4EJ£49,387 - £56,515Closes 16/09/2026

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Band
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Pattern
Full-time
Posted
26/08/2026
Closes
16/09/2026

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Role summary

This role involves leading the Medical Staffing and Education team, managing all aspects of medical staffing, HR, and education across the Trust. The successful candidate will provide expert advice on medical workforce terms and conditions, national strategies, contract negotiations, and policies. They will also support the delivery of the medical workforce strategy and build relationships with medical staff and managers. The position requires specialist knowledge and experience in medical workforce management.

Essential criteria

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Education, qualifications or training
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.

Useful to know

Band 7 pay context

Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.

This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.

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Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Medical Staffing Manager

The closing date is 16 September 2026

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

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