discrimination???

lmille38

I am looking to apply for a job within the NHS, it is for bank staff at my local hospital. I submitted my application form on the 19th January 2010 and knew the process took ages, as they don't often open the recruiting.

However I phoned the other day enquiring about the progress of my application to be told that even though they are currently recruiting my application form will not even be looked at as I went to a university in a different region. Surely it should not matter which university I went to as my university also places students at this hospital so they are affiliated with them??? Is this some sort of discrimination? Despite the different university should I not be given the same opportunities as everyone else?

Thanks in advance.

TEDDYRUKSPIN

The above does'nt sound right. I would ask to speak to someone else. The current positions in the NHS are to be offered to redeployment people or people at high risk in the NHS. This is usually open for around 3 months. This si mainly due to the cirumcstances the recession has got us in.

The would never discriminate against university and if they did, would not tell you up front.

Get another opinion.

teabelly

I think what they say is correct. If you do a medical qualification then you are restricted in where you can work depending on which institution you qualified at. I have heard this before and thought how odd but it seems to be how they do things. I don't know how long the restriction lasts for though.

SarEl

lmille38 wrote: »

Is this some sort of discrimination? Despite the different university should I not be given the same opportunities as everyone else?
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It may be a sort of discrimination - but it isn't unlawful discrimination - so you are on a hiding to nothing on that anyway

dmg24

teabelly wrote: »

I think what they say is correct. If you do a medical qualification then you are restricted in where you can work depending on which institution you qualified at. I have heard this before and thought how odd but it seems to be how they do things. I don't know how long the restriction lasts for though.

No, you are not. Once you are affiliated to (read: qualified) one of the professional bodies, there is nothing to stop you working wherever you wish.

Uncertain

An employer is allowed to discriminate in any way they please EXCEPT for those prohibited by law.

So they could, for example, say that they will only employ people who live in a house with a red front door!

esuhl

lmille38 wrote: »

Is this some sort of discrimination?

Well, it's clearly discrimination based on the university attended - but it sounds like you knew that already.

It certainly sounds a bit odd, so maybe it would be worth getting in touch again and speaking to (or emailing) someone else or the head of department and ask what's happening (without mentioning your previous conversation) to see if they say the same thing...

teabelly

dmg24 wrote: »

No, you are not. Once you are affiliated to (read: qualified) one of the professional bodies, there is nothing to stop you working wherever you wish.

I'm sure the local paper had an an article with this very situation. Newly qualified nurses were complaining they couldn't find work locally and they weren't considered for posts out of area. They must have it wrong then. I'm sure another friend said the same thing as he qualified as a doctor and had to restrict himself to jobs around Liverpool where he qualified. I can only think rules have changed over the years and this is no longer the case.

dmg24

teabelly wrote: »

I'm sure the local paper had an an article with this very situation. Newly qualified nurses were complaining they couldn't find work locally and they weren't considered for posts out of area. They must have it wrong then. I'm sure another friend said the same thing as he qualified as a doctor and had to restrict himself to jobs around Liverpool where he qualified. I can only think rules have changed over the years and this is no longer the case.

There may be individual policies to only recruit from feeder universities, but there is certainly no such obligation on candidates to restrict themselves to applying for work in a certain geographical area. There never has been such a restriction - I know of medics that qualified in London in the seventies and then did their first years in Nottingham.

Don't always believe what you read in the papers!

dmg24

Uncertain wrote: »

An employer is allowed to discriminate in any way they please EXCEPT for those prohibited by law.

So they could, for example, say that they will only employ people who live in a house with a red front door!

I would agree, so long as it was not established that women were more likely to live in a house with a red front door than men, in which case it could be indirect discrimination!

clairec79

I had this when I first qualified didn't get an interview as they only interviewed 'their' students, then about a month after the closing date they contacted me, interviewed me and I got the job - which I promptly resigned about a month after I started to work in another trust again