To think the NHS needs to sort out their awful recruitment process?

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I applied for a job as a HCA 4 months ago. 4 months! Yesterday I got a call directly and generic interview request email asking me to come for interview, and that it was urgent as they really needed the staff 'yesterday' said the woman

I applied for that job 4 months ago. This isn't the first time they've done this

At a different Trust a few years ago, I applied for a job and they got back to me 3 months later

Is it possible that you weren't successful in the first round of applications but they kept your application and when I needed to recruit again they contacted you? This may apply for lower banding jobs where they employ several people in one go for lots of different wards/departments.

YANBU that is crap.

You were not selected for the first interviews, now they are re-recruiting.

This is really not unusual, although they should be polite of course.

Yes those tiresome DBS checks and OH checks
I agree recruitment is dire, but some of it is out of their hands

Yanbu..

I applied for a bank job hca- previously qualified nurse.. they said i was just the kind of person they were looking for..but would take 3 months.. i got another job and started a week later

I went for an interview for a HCA post. Got a call within 10 minutes to say I have a job and it will be on either x or z ward. Never heard from them again. Tried to follow up but the first lockdown happened within 2 weeks so it was chaotic and I couldn't get through to the people that were organising everything . 🤷🏻‍♀️

Some are suggesting you may not have been selected for first round of interviews, hence the delay - probably not true. My DH is a director in the NHS and knows they sit on applications for months, hiring bank staff in the interim which wastes millions of pounds.

Be if my ex went for a job in July.. given the role.. STILL waiting for the HR process to finish! 2 of the other people who were offered jobs have not declined the offer and started at another job. HR in our Trust is a nightmare

I first went into the NHS about 20 years ago. Had an interview, then straight off got told off for not showing up to my shift. I was never told I had the job!
Knew people apply, get told they were successful, then were still waiting on all sorts of paperwork to be sorted months later.

My current job is with the NHS, and I got it within 2 weeks (they took 2 weeks to give me a yea!), but then the actual process to 8 weeks from the offer to actually starting...

DBS was really quick to clear. It was HR faffing. Goodness knows what goes on

I recruit people in the NHS and in my trust we have to have the interviews within a very tight timeframe from the closing date, it’s usually about 2 weeks after.
As others said maybe you weren’t selected for interview originally.