Request
Please provide the following information:
A
Name of Trust
B
How many vacancies do you currently have for each of the following grades of staff?
C
Are you actively seeking to recruit staff from abroad and outside of the EU?
D
If the answer to question C is "Yes" from which of the below countries are you seeking to recruit;
E
If the answer to question C is "No" are you intending to start recruiting from outside of the EU within the next 12 months? If so, which countries will you seek to recruit from?
F
Do you / will you recruit directly by yourselves or through a permanent employment agency?
G
Which agencies do you work with currently?
H
What criteria do you use to assess a recruitment agency when appointing them?
I
Typically what agency rate / placement fee would you pay to recruit a permanent member of staff?
J
What is the estimated cost to the Trust per annum for International recruitment?
K
How many of the following staff recruited from outside of the EU did you appoint in 2016?
L
How many of the following staff recruited ex EU have you appointed year to date in 2017?
M
How many of the staff in each Group have actually arrived in UK?
N
What is your current Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OCSE) pass rate for nurses?
O
What training is given to support OSCE candidates?
P
Please outline what support is given to International recruits?
Q
Is on-site accommodation provided by the Trust?
Response
A
The Health and Social Services Department (HSSD) of the States of Jersey is not a Trust
B
The table below shows the vacancies for the requested staff groups as at the end of September 2017. Information shown below may not be 100% accurate as allied health professionals fall within the Civil Service Group. Manual reconciliations have been undertaken to identify allied health professional roles:
Staff Group | Budget | Actual | In Recruitment | Offered | Vacancies |
|---|
| Doctors | 166.8 | 146.9 | 32.0 | 2.0 | 17.9 | 10.7% |
| Nurses | 589.7 | 499.7 | 25.0 | 50.0 | 40.0 | 6.8% |
| Physiotherapists | 51.6 | 49.4 | 2.0 | 7.0 | -4.8 | -9.4% |
| Occupational Therapists | 50.7 | 48.9 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.5% |
| Radiologists | 7.1 | 7.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.4% |
| Paramedics | 24.0 | 22.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 8.3% |
| Other AHPs | 195.3 | 172.5 | 5.0 | 9.0 | 13.7 | 7.0% |
The above vacancy % is a calculation of the Budget, less the actual and offered figures.
Some figures show a negative vacancy rate, this is possibly due to employee end date and new employee start dates overlapping in the systems.
C
Yes
D
Out of the list of countries provided HSSD are considering recruitment from South Africa and Australia
E
N/A
F
HSSD utilise both Direct and Agency recruitment
G
This question is exempt under Article 33 (b) (Commercial Interests) of the Freedom of
Information (Jersey) Law 2011
H
This question is exempt under Article 33 (b) (Commercial Interests) of the Freedom of
Information (Jersey) Law 2011
I
This question is exempt under Article 33 (b) (Commercial Interests) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011
J
This information is not yet available
K
The information requested is not held
L
The information requested is not held
M
The information requested is not held
N
The current OSCE pass rate for nurses is 100%
O
HSSD run underpinning knowledge sessions, delivering theory and usually a run through of how to complete the whole process with guidance notes. This will be followed by practice sessions in the skills lab / classroom.
The classroom is then set up under exam conditions and the students run through the scenarios being observed by an examiner who has a marking grid for the purpose of assessment.
P
International recruits are provided with a relocation package including induction and on boarding, and some subsidised accommodation
Q
HSSD are not a Trust. Very little on-site accommodation is provided.
Exemptions applied
Article 33 – Commercial interests
Information is qualified exempt information if (a) it constitutes a trade secret; or
(b) its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of a person (including the scheduled public authority holding the information).
Justification for exemption
In this instance, we believe that information relating to specific costings and recruitment processes is commercially sensitive. Any disclosure would be likely to harm the commercial interests of the third party provider and the ability to negotiate future contracts with potential suppliers.
