What happens after being interviewed?
If you are not successful, the recruiting manager will contact you by telephone to inform you of their decision and provide you with feedback. If you are successful... the recruiting manager will contact you by telephone to verbally offer you the post, or you will receive Trac notification. The offer at this stage will be conditional and is subject to receiving the following satisfactory pre-employment checks:
- Employment history check via references
- Occupational health
- Identity and Right to work in the UK
- Professional Registration (if applicable)
- DBS, formally known as CRB check (if applicable)
- Qualifications (if listed as essential in the Person Specification)
Please note that it is important to read through this carefully and check the details are what you expected, such as your base station and salary. Please contact the recruiting manager or recruitment department about any alterations needed to this document. Upon completing your employment checks you will be sent an Unconditional Offer, and a contract will be issued prior to your start date. If you are applying for a clinical position, it may only be at this stage, we can finally confirm your start date and course details. A letter from Training & Education will then provide you with specific course information such as venue, date, times, what you will need with you etc.
The importance of Pre-Employment checks
All NHS organisations are required to ensure they have robust recruitment and employment practices in place to ascertain a person’s fitness and suitability for the role they have been conditionally offered and to ensure safe recruitment.
EEAST employers must demonstrate that they are meeting the relevant regulatory requirements in this regard, by evidencing compliance with the NHS Employment Check Standards.
Pre-Employment checks are important because:
- They are a condition of the employment offer
- They apply to all successful applicants, which includes internal staff already employed or engaged by an external agency
- They ensure NHS organisations are recruiting safely and appropriately.
