NHS Recruitment Process

Mr_Falling_Star

Are the NHS actually recruiting at the moment? I see the Jobs advertised but have assumed, due to the cuts, that they are paying lip service to the law and that the roles are going to redeployed staff?

LondonDiva

Mr_Falling_Star wrote: »

Are the NHS actually recruiting at the moment? I see the Jobs advertised but have assumed, due to the cuts, that they are paying lip service to the law and that the roles are going to redeployed staff?

There's no lip service to the law - my Trust has jobs go to internal / redeployees in the first instance and then external..

t0rt0ise

CruisingSaver wrote: »

Fair enough I won't bother giving any more apparently useless advice.

Good luck to the OP I hope you're successful in your job search and secure a position soon.

CS

Wasn't thinking of you although you did generalise a bit much. Somebody said if you haven't heard in three weeks you haven't been shortlisted which may be true of some places but certainly not all.

Advice telling people to tailor their answers to the job spec is useful to some although I'd suggest that if someone needs to be told that they haven't got much chance anyway!

LadyMissA

slickc2100 wrote: »

Hi lovely peeps im in the process of super actively seeking a JOB!!:j

What is the NHS recruitment process??
After how long do they respond?
And do they tell you if you are not successful?

Applied for about 20 jobs with them in the last ten days and not had anything back apart from the automated reply saying they have received my app..

Thanks

20 jobs in the NHS in 10 days? Wow are there that many you can do?

I have applied for 4 over the last year or so but they all say NHS expereince is prefered but I still apply as I see accounts the same in all industries.

I heard back on all of them but this was months after I applied and it was just a standard email they send to everyone with no reply email address to obtain feedback.

slickc2100

t0rt0ise wrote: »

Wasn't thinking of you although you did generalise a bit much. Somebody said if you haven't heard in three weeks you haven't been shortlisted which may be true of some places but certainly not all.

Advice telling people to tailor their answers to the job spec is useful to some although I'd suggest that if someone needs to be told that they haven't got much chance anyway!

Hah,:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I'd hate to be your friend and come to you for advice/help gory I pity them.

slickc2100

LadyMissA wrote: »

20 jobs in the NHS in 10 days? Wow are there that many you can do?

I have applied for 4 over the last year or so but they all say NHS expereince is prefered but I still apply as I see accounts the same in all industries.

I heard back on all of them but this was months after I applied and it was just a standard email they send to everyone with no reply email address to obtain feedback.

I entered a number of locations and different positions (Its worth trying as you never know, till you try) as I can relocate easily got family scattered here and there who will put me up till I sort myself out.:j

t0rt0ise

slickc2100 wrote: »

Hah, I'd hate to be your friend and come to you for advice/help gory I pity them.

Luckily for both of us you aren't my friend.

But really are you saying that you didn't know that you had to show how you meet the job spec? If so here's what I do. I print out the job spec and then I write my blurb in Word on computer ticking off each item on the job spec as I cover it, explaining how my past experience shows that I can do all of the criteria. I don't do titles and lists as some do, I prefer to do a narrative piece. When all the job spec is ticked off I know I've covered everything.

CruisingSaver

t0rt0ise wrote: »

Advice telling people to tailor their answers to the job spec is useful to some although I'd suggest that if someone needs to be told that they haven't got much chance anyway!

I'd hazard a guess that you've never recruited in the NHS then! A lot of applications that I've had you'd be hard pressed to guess whether they'd even read the job description or advert.

YOU may consider that I'm teaching someone to suck eggs, but if anything I've posted about how the process works in my area and what I look for in an application helps an applicant to secure an interview, then I consider it time well spent making the post.

CS

VfM4meplse

t0rt0ise wrote: »

All NHS vary so being told that it works like this or that is not useful. I have applied for several jobs in the NHS. Some will take 6 weeks to shortlist and just when you've given up you get an interview. Four weeks seems to be quite usual.

The classic sign of an inexperienced manager so consider it to be a lucky escape - it should take no more than 2 days max to turn the shortlisting process around. Any recruiter worth their salt will plan the process ahead and set an interview date at the time of advertising.