Interview tomorrow help!

[interviewhelpanon]

Hi everyone,

I have NCed as this could be quite outing...

Tomorrow I have a final stage interview for a job. It's a newly created role and will be a stand-alone role in the organisation (no team) but the role is director level. I am down to the final 2.

I am well qualified for the job and everything is looking good. However... I have a chronic health condition that is worsening, and I am likely to need major surgery in the next 6 months or so. This is likely to require around 3 months off work, maybe more. The surgery is a transplant - so no predictability about when or if I would get it. If I don't get one, I'm likely to get more ill and need dialysis. However I'm currently perfectly healthy and beyond quite a few appointments and being quite tired, function well and you'd never know.

Should I mention it? I'm terrified if I do I won't get it, but that if I don't they may not be ok with it and look for reasons to get rid during probation... My current job is making me really unhappy so really looking to leave ASAP, but perhaps that's not wise.

Does anyone have any advice?!

Thank you!

I’m not much use sorry! Bump.

Will it come up in any questionnaires they give you anyway? Or would they get your permission to ask your gp for access to your health records? Mine did that. Before gdpr right enough.

I don’t know if anything like that should be discussed at interviews these days. Perhaps others can advise!

Good luck OP.

Thanks @Elieza. I'm not sure - it's office based so I can't imagine it would come up if I don't mention it... so difficult to know!

Am just getting ready now and still don't know whether I should say anything

I don't have much experience in this area, but I wouldn't mention it. Like you said, you don't know when or if you will be able to have the transplant. They'll know this is how transplants work, so it won't be seen as deception (or shouldn't be).

I know it's different to maternity leave, which involves a protected characteristic- but advice in those threads is that you may work for the company for decades; what is a few months in comparison? If appointed into a director role, you're clearly well qualified and a good investment.

And good luck!