Anyone else waiting on pocva check?

pookie5488

Have recently secured a nursing post after finishing Queens and thought the pocva checks would only take 6 weeks or so to complete but apparently for some reason they are taking around the 3 month mark to come through.:mad:
I am doing agency work at the moment and my pocva for the agency took 3 and a half months to come through. Does anyone know why this process is taking so blooming long? I just want to start my new job!!!

travelling_light

It could be ebcause of the N.I.Social Care Registration being rolled out - to register all care staff - probably having huge nos. going through.
really causing problems as I know quite a few people waiting for pocva checks to proceed so they can employ personal assistants via direct payments.

Robothell

Could also be the fact that you probably hit the time when the junior doctors started/changed over so the numbers of checks were at their peak levels.

Congrats on securing a post though......I've posted before saying about the large discrepancy between the number of nurses we train here versus the number of jobs that are available for them (and yet every ward I've ever worked on has been short staffed).

pookie5488

Totally agree I have never been to a fully staffed ward in 3 yrs of training yet many of my friends have not been offered a post!!
Madness, sheer madness, aw well guess the UHD will have to wait for my services whilst I continue to do agency shifts there!!