Medical Staffing Manager | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 January 2026 |
| Location: | Reading, RG30 4EJ |
| Company: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7688012/371-TAP-CS3211 |
Summary
Looking for a senior role where your expertise in medical staffing and leadership skills can help to shape a high-impact service?
At Berkshire Healthcare, we’re seeking an experienced Medical Staffing Manager to lead a specialist team supporting all aspects of medical staffing across our ‘Outstanding’ Trust.
You’ll bring your expert knowledge to manage a dedicated team with compassionate and inspiring leadership. The team has responsibility for doctors across the organisation, and you’ll work closely with Trust senior management, stakeholders and external partners to deliver high-quality, effective medical workforce management.
Your role will include overseeing:
• Recruitment, induction and management of rotations for resident doctors
• Rota management and accurate pay calculations
• Medical education and training administration, including honorary contracts, course approvals, and study leave
• Managing medical agency staff
In this role you’ll find opportunities to shape and build the Medical Staffing team and the service they provide.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are rated “Outstanding” by the CQC, who highlight our positive, supportive culture where staff feel valued. We consistently top NHS staff survey scores, including engagement and staff recommending us as a place to work.
This is a full-time 9-5 role, based at Prospect Park Hospital, Reading. Whilst presence on site is required, we are open to considering hybrid working options.
• Lead and manage the Medical Staffing and Education team, providing day-to-day leadership, supervision and development
• Hold operational responsibility for medical staffing across the Trust, including resident doctors, consultants, SAS doctors and medical agency staff
• Manage the recruitment, induction and rotation of resident doctors (c.64), including creation of compliant rotas and accurate calculation of pay
• Act as line manager for resident doctors, overseeing rostering, sickness absence processes and occupational health returns
• Lead consultant and specialist doctor recruitment, ensuring robust processes, compliant appointment panels and accurate offer/pay calculations.
• Oversee medical agency usage, supporting safe staffing, cost control and effective agency management
• Support delivery of medical education administration, including honorary contracts, student placements, course approvals and expenses
• Build strong, trusted relationships with clinicians, service managers and senior leaders, providing expert medical staffing advice
• Contribute to service improvement, shaping processes and developing a resilient, future-focused medical staffing service
Applications for this role will be reviewed as received; we encourage you to apply ASAP as roles can close early.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites
The“must haves”for this role:
• Experience working autonomously in medical staffing, providing specialist advice in a complex healthcare setting.
• Strong management experience, including leading and developing a team.
• Sound knowledge of medical workforce operations, including rotas, rotations, pay, and recruitment.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet thecriteria in theperson specificationand write about thispoint-by-pointin your supporting statementfor the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’recommitted to equal opportunitiesand welcomeapplications fromall sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected inour accreditations:Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award.Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Pleasedon’thesitate tocall:Amanda Mollett, Associate Director of MedicalDevelopmentand ClinicalEffectivenessand Clinical Auditon07827311841or email:amanda.mollett@berkshire.nhs.uk. She willbe delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so pleasesubmityour application as soon as possible.
This advert closes on Monday 12 Jan 2026
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