How long from verbal offer to written?! NHS

[mollibu]

Hi all!

I was offered a job over the phone on Monday following a successful interview. I verbally accepted too.

Does anyone have any experience in the time frame to verbal offer to written confirmation? I've been in the same job for many many years so I am clueless about time frames etc! Haven't had any contact via email, nor any change on my trac jobs account.

I know it's only been 2 days but I'm very eager to hand in my notice to my current manager

TIA

When I worked in HR for NHS it would be after reference/5 year history checks were complete.

@HarrietOh

When I worked in HR for NHS it would be after reference/5 year history checks were complete.

That's really helpful. I'll just assume that they are busy sorting references right now. Thank you!

You should get a 'Conditional offer' letter once they have processed your ID checks. Then a firm confirmation once your references and DBS checks have been done.

Yes and don't give in your notice until you have it.

My first nhs job it was about 8 weeks so took three months from interview to starting the job as they expect you to be giving a months notice from when you get the offer in writing. That was with me chasing up hr- thank goodness I did because they withdrew the verbal offers from another successful candidate . Internally I've moved within 6 weeks from interview to start date within the nhs but nhs hr is notoriously slow,

I have been offered conditionally a nhs finance role . Just wondering does anyone know whether if finance staff within trusts are remote working or in office or combination of both. They were vague at interview about this. It’s an hours commute otherwise for me

I work nhs admin and it appears to be a bit of both but depends on what you do. I work in an office that is covid safe. Desks are spaced out and we have screens in place so i have only spent a handful of days working from home. Some staff are now permanently moved to home working and some staff are half and half for the week.

All our admin in my new team are in the base full time but my old team were mainly working from home. You'll likely be back in base at some point though so I would plan for that - eg our admin have to print and post letters etc which needs office based equipment