Overview
Resource Planner
Salary: £30,000 per annum
Please note: this vacancy is a fixed term contract for 6 months
Are you an experienced Resource Planner with proven experience in data analytics, forecasting and resource planning within a healthcare organisation? Then look no further, as a Resource Planner you will be creating operational plans that enable our field-based nursing teams to travel to patients’ homes efficiently to provide treatment within a large geographical area.
You will ensure that nursing resources are managed effectively in order to optimise patient facing time and minimise travel and overtime. This role will allow you to build, maintain and manage effective communication between stakeholders and line managers to ensure there is equal allocation of shifts to resources over a 7 day a week operation. You will be required to continuously review operational plans against the resource activity and make the appropriate adjustments required to identify skill shortages or training requirements in regions to improve nurse utilisation.
We have a lot to offer to not only the 100,000 patients we support, but also to our valued employees. LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare has a wide range of exciting opportunities for passionate professionals across nursing, patient services, compounding, pharmacy and warehousing. These roles come with fantastic benefits including:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Company bonus scheme
- Outstanding training & development programmes
- Up to £1200 refer a friend bonus
- Full support from our employee assistance programme including a health and well-being app
- Savings and discounts at multiple retailers through our rewards portal
About You
To be successful in this role you will have the ability to develop strong relationships and multitask in a fast-moving environment. It is essential that you have had experience of working in a resource planning role, ideally within a healthcare organisation. This role will require you to analyse data from reporting systems to highlight trends and propose recommendations. You must be IT literate with experience of using Microsoft Office products with Excel being essential. It is desirable if you have knowledge of legislation regarding shift work, working time regulations and Health & Safety.
About Us
LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare are one of the most experienced providers of clinical homecare in the UK and have been supporting patients in this way since 1975. We provide care to more than 100,000 patients in their own home, at work, or in the community, ranging from straightforward delivery of medication to specialist nursing for complex conditions. We work in partnership with the NHS, pharmaceutical companies, and private medical insurers. Our range of treatments and conditions includes home parenteral nutrition, chemotherapy, IV antibiotics, enzyme replacement therapy, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and much more.
We are defined by our ICARE values and we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunities employer, committed to diversity & inclusion, taking a person-centred approach to our interview process that is fair and free from both discrimination and bias. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our resourcing team.
