Medical Staff Liaison Officer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves managing and coordinating junior medical staffing rotas across the Board of Medicine and Emergency Care, ensuring compliance with working time directives and maintaining appropriate medical cover. The post holder will process locum claims, address staffing queries, and work closely with medical staff and management to resolve workforce issues. It requires efficient deployment of medical resources and adherence to Trust policies and clinical governance standards.
Key responsibilities
- Coordinate and manage junior medical staffing rotas across the Board of Medicine and Emergency Care, ensuring appropriate medical cover is maintained.
- Ensure medical staffing resources are deployed efficiently and in line with service needs, contractual requirements, and Trust policies.
- Work closely with the Board Management Team, Clinical Leads, and the Medical Staffing Department to proactively identify and resolve workforce and rota issues.
- Support the planning, monitoring, and maintenance of medical rotas, including managing planned and unplanned absences.
- Build effective working relationships with consultants, junior doctors, service managers, and professional and technical staff.
- Produce and analyse workforce information and reports to support workforce planning, performance monitoring, and decision-making.
Essential criteria
- Management Diploma/Degree/equivalent experience
- NHS experience, particularly working with clinicians, including managing medical staff, services, resources and budgets
- Sound knowledge of budgets
- Excellent presentation skills
- A high standard of IT skills, as well as experience of other computer software applications
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Medical Staff Liaison Officer
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
The Post holder will be responsiblefor the production ofoncalland ward medical staffing rotas using Excel software and other software packages ensuring compliance with junior doctors working time directive.
Responsible that all medical staff locum claims aresubmittedina timelyfashion for Payroll.
The post holder will work closely with all medical staff and be able to deal with staffing queries on a daily basis.
- Interview Date 13 October 2026
- 22 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
- Coordinate and manage junior medical staffing rotas across the Board of Medicine and Emergency Care, ensuring appropriate medical cover is maintained to support safe and effective patient care.
- Ensure medical staffing resources are deployed efficiently and in line with service needs, contractual requirements, and Trust policies.
- Work closely with the Board Management Team, Clinical Leads, and the Medical Staffing Department to proactively identify and resolve workforce and rota issues.
- Support the planning, monitoring, and maintenance of medical
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