NHS Jobs, the e-recruitment service for the NHS, is the number one recruitment site in the UK, attracting more visits than any other recruitment site.
In 2007 the website attracted over 28 million visits and over 2 million applicants applied for jobs online. Managed by NHS Employers, the NHS Jobs service provides a one stop shop for NHS recruitment. Used by 95% of NHS organisations, NHS Jobs saves the NHS over £40million a year.
Over 460 employers across England and Wales are now registered with the service, posting around 10000 adverts between them at any one time.
The NHS Jobs service provides employers with a range of on-line recruitment tools including:
- on-line vacancy advertising and management system, helping the NHS save an estimated £40 million + per year in recruitment advertising spend and administration costs
- standard on-line application forms for medical and non-medical vacancies
- application manager systems including
- enhanced on-line shortlisting tools
- pre-application screening questions
- key shortlisting questions
- vacancy analysis activity reporting
- Links with Jobcentre Plus, Jobsite and ESR
- 'internal only' vacancies
- 'restricted vacancies' tool
- NHS Jobs Executive service for advertising senior management positions and managing executive talent in the NHS.
- candidate profile pools to support newly qualified healthcare professionals
NHS Jobs is a 'user-led' service that responds to the needs of its employers across the NHS. This is facilitated by a network of regional user groups which are hosted by individual SHAs providing an opportunity for all users to gain a clear understanding of the service, influence future enhancements, network with their colleagues and the NHS Jobs team and share good practice.
NHS Jobs benefits survey
The 'NHS Jobs: delivering the benefits' survey will help employers to better understand and quantify the benefits delivered by NHS Jobs. This guide provides important information about the survey and advice on the information you will need to prepare before completing the online survey.
NHS Jobs development
NHS Employers is about to embark on a new stage of development for NHS Jobs and, to ensure we continue moving the service in the right direction to meet your needs, we will be asking for your input on a range of projects over the next six months. This section explains how you can get more involved.
Supporting newly qualified staff
NHS jobs has launched a series of candidate profile pools for newly qualified healthcare professionals as part of NHS Employers' wider work with the Social Partnership Forum.
NQHP SHA lead forum
This forum has been set up specifically for the NQHP SHA responsible officers, it is a dedicated space for you to discuss issues with your peers.
NHS Jobs and ESR
This joint statement from the NHS Jobs and Electronic Staff Record (ESR) teams describes how information is shared across the two systems to provide an integrated electronic recruitment solution for the NHS.
