Locum Manager jobs in London

We are pleased to advertise an exciting opportunity for an experienced workforce professional with a passion for delivering high‑quality medical workforce services. If you have a strong interest in leading end‑to‑end medical job planning processes, managing a dynamic medical staffing team, strengthening governance, and driving service excellence, this role may be the perfect next step.

We are seeking a proactive, collaborative, and forward‑thinking Job Planning & Medical Staffing Manager to join our Medical Workforce team. This is a pivotal role that will help shape how we support our Consultant, SAS, and Resident Doctor workforce across the Trust.

As the Job Planning & Medical Staffing Manager, you will take responsibility for the full delivery of the Trust’s medical job planning cycle, ensuring compliance with national terms and conditions, embedding robust governance, and promoting a fair and consistent approach across all specialties. You will also lead and develop the medical staffing team, overseeing resident doctor rotations, supporting delivery of the 10‑point plan, and ensuring effective workforce utilisation through high‑quality operational processes.

This is a pivotal role requiring experience of supporting clinical leaders in job planning, excellent communication, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work confidently with senior clinical leaders, operational managers, and corporate teams.

The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders such as Chief Medical Officers, Medical education colleagues, Finance, and lead the medical staffing team to ensure a responsive, comprehensive and professional service is delivered to all stakeholders.
They will also provide a central access point for expert medical workforce support and advice, to enable the delivery of Trust priorities and support the services with robust decision-making advice and information.
The post holder will constructively challenge, with a view to improving, all aspects of medical staffing operational performance across the Trust.
Support the Assistant Director of Medical Workforce & Medical Education with the implementation of job plans and medical policies and interpret national guidelines to ensure best practice is reflected in Trust policies and processes.
The postholder will be responsible for maintaining and reviewing Medical Workforce policies (e.g., annual leave, job planning etc.)

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development

Widening access (anchor institution) and employability

Improving the experience of staff with disability

Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development

Making equalities mainstream

• The post holder will be required to line manage the Medical Staffing function on a day to-day basis, overseeing junior doctor rotations, terms and conditions for all grade of medical staff across the trust and supporting the Divisions with recruitment of medical staff in corroboration with recruitment team.
• Work with Assistant Director of Medical Workforce and Education on the design, development, negotiation, implementation and monitoring of all operational matters related to pay, contracts, terms and conditions for all doctors employed by the Trust.
• Ensure processes are in place for the review and smooth running of all medical rotas and on-call rotas in collaboration with rota coordinators.
• Develop strategic medical staffing capacity across the Trust through effective collaboration and management of the Rota Coordinators.
• Support the Assistant Director of Medical Workforce & Medical Education in the delivery of Trust priorities, in particular, managing the Medical Workforce Cost Improvement Plan workstreams across the Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust.
• Support the Assistant Director of Medical Workforce & Medical Education to develop and maintain a local medical workforce plan to enable the service to meet present and future service challenges and financial targets ensuring appropriate stakeholder involvement.