Bank Staff - FOI Response Register

1. The average time to hire for Bank workers for each Trust for the last 12 months  

2. What are your hardest roles to fill currently? 

3. Payment arrangements for Bank worker induction and mandatory training, number of hours paid and what level of payment is made on AFC scale? 

In accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested, in the manner in which it is requested.  Please see below for explanations.

Time to hire for each staff group varies from person to person and circumstances so this is very hard to capture, it can range from 4 weeks to several months, in most circumstances 4-6 weeks however it depends on the availability of the individual so start date may be several months away from time that pre-employment checks are back.

Locum Bank tends to be on a word of mouth basis rather than a recruitment campaign

Qualified Nurses - tends to be hardest to fill with lack of UK qualified nursing professionals around and due to Shetland being a remote location.

We don’t tend to hire Bank AHPs

Payment of Bank workers tend to be against nationally agreed rates with for mandatory training

The number of hours paid for training varies on the role and what training is required or perhaps even already done and verified from previous NHS roles, we don’t have a system that captures this data.