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Tactical OR and Rostering Planner Neurosurgery

On-site in Nijmegen·Part-time·Added 17 days ago (last checked 11 Nov)

Radboudumc

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Our summary

Salary: €3,550 - €4,722 a month
Work mode: On-site, Nijmegen
Contract: Part-time
Languages: Dutch
Experience: 2+ years

Skills

Excel

This job advert was originally written in Dutch.

Requirements

What we're looking for

At least a completed HBO (higher professional education) degree, preferably supplemented with a planning qualification.
At least two years of relevant experience as an OR planner, capacity planner, or personnel planner within a complex healthcare organization.
Demonstrable experience with complex planning issues.
Experience with analyzing capacity and production data and drafting management information.
Excellent command of the Dutch language, both spoken and written.
Excellent knowledge of MS Office, particularly Excel, and preferably experience with Epic.
Strong communication and advisory skills.
Organizational sensitivity and a sense for administrative and professional relationships.

In short: you are a connecting professional who seeks collaboration, takes responsibility, and is continuously focused on improvement.

The role

As a Tactical OR and Rostering Planner, you are responsible for both the operational and tactical planning within the Neurosurgery department. The core of your activities lies in the daily OR planning and the rostering of neurosurgeons. Additionally, you analyze capacity, production, and staffing, and translate these into management information and advice for the long term.

You ensure optimal coordination between healthcare demand, staff availability, OR capacity, and available resources. In doing so, you not only maintain visibility on the daily and weekly planning but also look ahead to developments in the medium and long term. You identify risks, capacity bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement and discuss these proactively with medical specialists, management, and other stakeholders (centers).

For complex or non-standard operations, you regularly coordinate with physicians and other disciplines. You collect missing data, monitor the progress of scheduled operations, and ensure accurate and timely information provision to patients, physicians, and the nursing department.

In addition to operational planning, you provide management information, perform analyses of staffing and production, and actively contribute to the further development and optimization of capacity and personnel planning within the department. You are not just a planner with 'your hands in the clay', but also a sparring partner who looks at the department's capacity with a helicopter view.

Operational planning

What you'll do

Drafting, managing, and optimizing the OR planning for the Neurosurgery department.
Drafting and managing the rosters for the neurosurgeons.
Coordinating the planning with physicians, the nursing department, and other involved disciplines.
Processing changes, emergency requests, and disruptions in the planning.
Collecting and verifying data necessary for scheduled operations.
Answering questions from patients and internal stakeholders by telephone and in writing.
Management of waiting lists and planning-related administration.
Handling email traffic from functional mailboxes.
Identifying and resolving operational bottlenecks in the daily planning.
Drafting and analyzing capacity and production overviews.
Translating expected healthcare demand, available capacity, and developments within the department into planning proposals.
Identifying trends, risks, and future capacity problems and making improvement proposals.
Drafting management information and steering reports for the benefit of department management, medical management, and centers.
Advising managers and medical specialists on capacity issues, staffing, and rostering policy.
Contributing to the optimization of work processes, planning, and capacity management.
Monitoring realized production, utilization of OR capacity, and personnel deployment.
Actively participating in consultation structures in which capacity, production, and personnel planning are discussed.
Ensuring reliable planning data and a correct setup of planning systems.

About Radboudumc

Industry: Healthcare

In their own words

About the company & team

As a Tactical OR and Rostering Planner, you are part of the Neurosurgery business office. The business office consists of the personnel and OR planning office and the staff secretariat.

The Neurosurgery department focuses on disorders of the brain, skull, skull base, cranial nerves, spinal cord, vertebral column, and the peripheral nervous system.

Within this role, you form the connecting link between daily operations and the tactical capacity management of the department. You work closely with medical specialists, the nursing department, management, and support services to achieve optimal deployment of people, resources, and OR capacity.

We are looking for an experienced planner who switches effortlessly between operational tasks and tactical issues. You get energy from a dynamic environment and know how to maintain structure and overview even under time pressure. You are analytically strong, think ahead, and translate data and signals into concrete improvements.

You are visibly present in daily operations, but simultaneously maintain an overview of the long term. You dare to look critically at existing working methods and come up proactively with improvement proposals.