Medical Workforce Advisor | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Job Title

Medical Workforce Advisor

Band

5

Hours

37.5

Department

People & OD

Location

Blue Star House, Brixton, London, SW9 9SP

Reports to

Medical Workforce Lead

Accountable To

Associate Director of People & OD - Medical Workforce

This Band 5 role provides high quality, end-to-end recruitment support for substantive and fixed-term Consultants, SAS and Clinical Fellow post, including Royal College approvals, AAC (approved appointment committee) coordination, TRAC workflow, vacancy control processes (VCP), workforce data cleansing, and payroll alignment. This is a 1.0 WTE role providing support to all Associate Medical Directors Trust-wide.

A central purpose of this role is to proactively drive and sustain reductions in agency spend. The post-holder is expected not only to deliver immediate reductions, but also to embed practices that ensure the organisation continues to realise the long-term financial and operational benefits of consistently lowering agency reliance.

We are seeking a motivated Medical Workforce Advisor to join our Medical Workforce Team and play a key role in supporting the recruitment, deployment and ongoing employment of doctors across the Trust. This is a varied and rewarding role, working closely with senior clinicians, managers, Postgraduate Medical Education colleagues and NHS England to ensure medical staffing processes are delivered effectively and efficiently.

To co-ordinate and administer the rotation of all medical staff joining the Trust. To prepare and issue all employment documents for new starter trainee doctors including appointment letters, work schedules and contracts of employment. Provide basic HR advice to all grades of doctors who join the Trust including Locally Employed Doctors

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here

• Generous pay, pensions, and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package, which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as leadership, mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership, and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease car

Key Responsibilities

· Manage and coordinate end-to-end recruitment for allocated Consultant, Specialist Grade, SAS, Resident Doctor, Clinical Fellow, Trust Grade and Locally Employed Doctor vacancies.

· Work collaboratively with Medical Workforce colleagues to progress recruitment activity according to service priorities, vacancy risk and team capacity.

· Draft, edit and quality assure job descriptions, person specifications, adverts and recruitment documentation in line with Trust standards, Royal College requirements and NHS Employment Check Standards.

· Coordinate Royal College approval processes for Consultant and SAS job descriptions and monitor progress to completion.

· Advise and support Associate Medical Directors, recruiting managers and clinical services on medical recruitment processes, documentation and timescales.

· Manage allocated recruitment activity through TRAC, ensuring approvals, documentation, employment checks and candidate communications are accurate and complete.

· Monitor recruitment activity, identify delays or barriers and coordinate their resolution, escalating risks where appropriate.

· Ensure vacancy-control submissions contain accurate establishment, funding, position number, cost-centre and vacancy information.

For further details regarding job, please review the attached JDPS.

This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Sep 2026