Medical Revalidation & Job Planning Specialist Review
at Great Western Hospital Swindon NHS trust
Degree Apprenticeship
Healthcare
Swindon, Wiltshire
Review Submitted: April 2026
Overall Rating
4.5 /5
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Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
Implemented and rolled out a new medical revalidation and appraisal platform also SARD to all medics across the trust.
Lead on providing a service to medical staff to support with creating and updating job plans as well as support and ensure the system is
populated with job plans and all necessary sign offs within agreed timescales.
Manage and maintain the data on both the job planning and revalidation system including reconciliation with other Trust systems. This
involves leading on the data quality within the system through monthly quality assurance checks.
Assist senior management with monitoring of processes and sign off of job plans working directly with medical staff to overcome
obstacles to completion. Developed and roll out a training programme on the system and with medical job planning to medical staff and
senior management including development and launch of an E, learning package. Designed and developed processes and FAQ’s to
support medical staff as well as internal SOP’s. Provide training to all users on the system and act as the key contact for resolving
queries when required.
Designed and manage monitoring processes utilising the system to support and ensure medical staff are compliant with medical
revalidation and job plans.
Work closely with the Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Chief Medical officer and regularly report and provide updates on compliance
and workstreams at the Trust’s Medical Working, Consistency and Advisory Group and Medical Staff Support Group chaired by the
Chief Medical Officer.
Write annual reports supporting the CMO office presented to three executive committees including People and Culture, Trust
Management and ARAC.
Worked closely with clinical leads, AGM’s as well as AMD’s in supporting them with analysing and utilising the data in SARD to aid their
planning and capacity conversations.
Deputise and support the Deputy CMO at the BSW Alliance Medical Job Planning project group and share learning / identify similarities
& differences / identify opportunities for closer alignment & collaboration.
Work with SARD Tech team and CEO with suggestion of improvements/ developments in the system particularly with job planning
ensuring its fit for purpose.
Collaboratively working with colleagues across Workforce Intelligence Team particularly with Medical Rostering