Where are all the jobs?

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I currently work as a health care professional. I have been looking for a change of job. 5 years ago when I was looking for my current post, there were SO many posts to apply for.

I just went on the NHS jobs website and there ate zero AHP roles in my local area. I looked on the council website. Again, zero.

What the hell is happening?

I feel like I can't move house because kf the cost of it and the poor housing market, and now can't move jobs or progress because there is nothing available.

Is it the same everywhere? I thought we were crying out for healthcare professionals?

National insurance has gone up
min wage went up
more costly to get rid of people
Have nhs pension contributions gone up to? Most likely

it is really expensive to hire right now.

keep looking. Something will turn up. Just takes longer

Sorry, did you say something @strongermummy ?😉

Yup, no jobs, no funding, no one wanting to start new things because everyone is worried about AI. AI wiping out applications because you don't use certain words or happen to be the gender/age they are looking for... Most Health graduates take admin roles if they can get them.

Job market generally is like this too!

Took me 9m to get another job after redundancy, first and only interview and luckily I got it!

People are losing jobs far more now than a year ago, steadily increasing month on month, year on year, no jobs available and just fake phishing for research jobs and ghosting/no replays is rife ATM.

It's bleak and brutal. Yet, we want the disenfranchised all working...what jobs?

The government isn't addressing it, just making it worse with every budget and the media is not helping just demonizing us all as lazy f'ers but the reality is there are no jobs and everything is just stagnant.

Sorry I didn't mean to get in my soapbox but I'm so cross about it. Nobody is being honest!

I'm sorry for you you're feeling stuck. Keep looking of song comes up snap it up, but be careful about job security if you do change, do your research and make sure it's a role that isn't likely to be cut shortly after you move etc and agree housing market also sucks because of rising prices and job instability.

Try and frame it,.that it's just for a season and it will get better, it's just going to get worse first. X

What is happening is Trusts are being told they can’t recruit and must find millions of ££. That’s why student nurses are finishing uni and for the first time in years can’t find jobs.Trusts didn’t help by trotting over to India to recruit lots of foreign healthcare staff of course. However this is not new, I qualified as a nurse in 1991 and we were in a similar state with no jobs. It’s a cycle and will switch again in a year or two.

Not just healthcare. Local schools job board - 4 jobs. There were 4 last half term too. It’s never like this, usually a good number of MAT leave cover and TA jobs but this is unheard of.

indeed has a complete lack of entry level jobs in my area. no NHS jobs, not even home carer jobs. Plus when jobs go up they’re down again the same day probs because of the no of applications.

im stuck in a shitty job being attacked by ASD kids it’s now affecting my health. I’m biting the bullet and going unemployed whilst searching. I know this is a massive risk.

but being bitten, hit etc and having bruises everywhere isn’t going me any good and I’m getting home and shutting down for hours unable to do much of anything. And I’m getting fatter from stress eating.

Same in government - spending cuts, recruitment freezes etc. Tends to go in circles.

I'm in Denmark and work at a jobcenter. It's the same in certain trades here - midwives! I had a midwife on my case load and all of my colleagues sneered at this fact - everyone says we need midwives, everyone knows that, except there wasn't a single vacancy within a 100 km radius.

Please explain.

Massive reduction in bank rates and hours at our Trust as well as increased recruitment controls. All trusts required to reduce their deficits, more pain to come.

Apart from the teaching crisis???

It was on the radio earlier that the jobs market has shrunk again so I think there are just far fewer jobs available and very high competition for any that actually do appear and employers can have their pick. I also read that weirdly a decent amount of jobs you see online don't actually exist but are just recruiters or businesses testing the waters or trying to look like they are booming, apparently advertising jobs reassures investors. So it's probably even worse than we realise.

‘Scared mongerers’??? Brexit ?

Have you been living under a rock!? There’s a recruitment freeze, it’s been ongoing for over a year. It’s a nightmare.

Nothing to do with Labour tax rises and employment changes? Not sure how Brexit has caused the lack of funding in education? Stock market is higher than ever, so is that because of Brexit?

Quite possibly, but I have only just started to look for a new post

You probably have weekly Trust operational updates in your mailbox. I know it's easy to ignore them as irrelevant but they are pretty good to gauge what's happening in terms of general financial decisions in your Turst and extrapolate that to the rest of the country. I find them worth keeping an eye on in terms of general job security and planning decisions.

Yep, guilty as charged! I will start to read

I'm NHS too but a non-clinical 'middle manager' - there are 1038 jobs within 50 miles of my home town on NHS Jobs... when I filter by the two grades relevant to me (current and one higher) - there are three - THREE! And one of those would involve a 90 minute commute each way every day. So I absolutely feel your pain

Congratulations, must be a huge relief.

Well done

Anyone who has worked in the NHS for a long time will know that having to reduce costs is not new. Every year a little more has to get trimmed. Every year departments have to make cuts to meet their budget, reshuffle staff, freeze posts. It's not new. It's certainly not a new phenomenon as a result of the sitting government. We've seen it with governments of all stripes. Austerity/recession makes it worse, unsurprisingly.

NHS trusts are in the shit for a multitude of reasons. Lots of the terrible PFI deals coming home to roost, loss of staff due to Brexit, economic losses due to Brexit (reducing available GDP), ageing population, rising costs of care (ageing population, increasing complexity, increasing use of technology and costs of drug development). Even though some politicians boast that the NHS receives more funding than ever before, it's nowhere near what it needs to run functionally and nor is it equivalent to other publicly funded healthcare systems which may deliver a higher standard of care. It is still underfunded. Trusts borrow to fill the hole. Then they have to claw it back year-on-year via a series of crappy decisions.

www.health.org.uk/features-and-opinion/features/how-much-does-the-uk-spend-on-health-care-compared-to-europe

It’s going to get worse with the push for AI

What is happening? Disaster capitalism reaching its natural climax. The cultural shift to promote power, money and aggression and enable the power of private individuals to leach all the wealth away from the common grounds was never going to lead to anything else.

There is so much money in this county. Our public services and the health of our people are starving in the middle of plenty so that the super rich can build more superyachts.