Job Planning Coordinator

Company: Chesterfield Royal Hospital
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Location: Chesterfield
Job Description:

CRH offers a wide range of exciting and rewarding opportunities for people who are passionate about providing exceptional patient care. With more than 350 different careers on offer there is a job for you no matter what your interests, skills, or qualifications.

A great opportunity has arisen to support our medical workforce through our on-going transition to e-job planning.

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who can confidently coordinate our day-to-day job planning processes for consultant and career grade medical and dental staff through the transition from paper-based to electronic job planning.

As Job Planning Coordinator you will utilise specialist knowledge and expertise to support our Clinical teams to deliver the annual job planning processes and targets so we are seeking someone with experience in job planning (and ideally e-job planning systems) with a flexible and inclusive approach to their role.

This role is for a fixed term of 12 months. Interviews will be held on the 30th July.

Main duties of the job

To provide expert support and advice to a range of colleagues including medical staff, clinical leaders and managerial colleagues with regard to all aspects of job planning.

The post holder will be required to be confident in using electronic job planning systems and will be familiar with Consultant and SAS contract requirements.

Working for our organisation

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts. We actively support our diverse workforce including staff networks (Race, Equality & Cultural Inclusion -RECI; Be Yourself; Disability & Wellbeing network, DAWN) our newly opened staff Health & Wellbeing Hub, mental health and flexible working.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description is attached, however the role duties include –

  • Provide advice and support for job planning delivery to Divisional personnel
  • Support use of the e-job planning system, keeping up to date with technological changes
  • Ensure processes outlined in the Job Planning Policy are adhered to
  • Support the consistency review process
  • Support annual job planning rounds for all relevant medical workforce, liaising with Divisional Leadership teams to determine an achievable delivery timeframe
  • Support individual job plan reviews or team job plan discussions, providing advice as required
  • Review job plans for accuracy, with support from the Deputy Chief Medical Officer
  • Play a role in ensuring that requirements for pay progression are actioned and instigate review to ensure that the required criteria have been met
  • Assist with compliance reporting on behalf of the Divisions and Executive oversight, monitoring progress against national guidance for levels of job
  • Be the lead contact for job planning queries
  • Monitor system license numbers and permissions, ensuring that records are fully up to date, particularly in relation to new starters and leavers
  • Ensure that the e-system is set up appropriately for all users, including entry of a data set for all new medical staff which will enable both job planning and appraisal and setting up new departments
  • Monitor utilisation of the system to ensure best practice and promote the need for accuracy to be maintained at all times
  • Support training of users of the e-job planning system as required

Person specification

Qualifications

  • Educated to degree level standard or equivalent.
  • Recent relevant work-related experience within the NHS or other large organisation.
  • Appropriate IT qualification or relevant experience (ECDL or Microsoft Packages – Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Experience

  • Experience of dealing with professional groups
  • Previous experience with job planning processes
  • Experience of using electronic system(s)

Skills

  • Excellent attention to detail/presentation.
  • Good numeracy skills and able to manipulate data.
  • Effective time management including prioritising workload and working to tight deadlines.
  • Organised and detail driven approach, uses time efficiently.
  • High level of communication/interpersonal skills; able to communicate with different stakeholders effectively, articulating often complex and difficult details.
  • Proven ability to work using own initiative and awareness of when to seek advice.
  • Good problem-solving skills to be able to deal with difficult/unusual issues that may arise.
  • Able to co-operate and collaborate with others, contributing to reaching shared goals and objectives.
  • Can demonstrate awareness of developments in Medical & Dental terms & Conditions of Service.

Flexible Working

If you’re looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

UK Points-based Immigration System

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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Posted: July 10th, 2026