Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

NHS Staffing Challenges Uncovered

Name: NHS Staffing Challenges Uncovered
Uploaded: 2025-02-23T11:00:25+00:00
Duration: 40 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: A community mental health nurse position sat vacant for 20 to 32 weeks with no suitable candidates. The hiring process requires high-level signatures…

23 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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A community mental health nurse position sat vacant for 20 to 32 weeks with no suitable candidates. The hiring process requires high-level signatures that create delays, forcing remaining staff to work harder and raising safety concerns for young patients.

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I think you built your contact in inside the NHS, and for example, you'd get a service manager who would be in charge of needing nurses for a community mental health team, for example, right? I've had the job out for 20 weeks, still not getting people give me the right candidate. Okay, do you know there's a process you can follow if you take this to your direct— but it needs a signature from someone very high up. Oh, not sure. And then again, you're, you're going back. Okay, it's been 32 weeks now, you still got that same problem, you know, everyone else in your service is having to work extra hard because you don't have the staff. And it's finding the managers that are actually got a bit of weight about them, so I'm not afraid to sort of talk to the establishment and say, actually, no, this is not safe for the young people. We need staff.