Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

1.      Please provide me with the funded establishment (staffing) in the areas covered by nurses, midwives (if applicable) and nursing associates (if applicable) – please give a breakdown of type of job and numbers of posts and pay bands (i.e. Head of Midwifery, band 6 A&E staff nurse, Band 5 labour ward midwife). Please provide whole-time equivalents, WTE. Maternity Services (if applicable) Funded Establishment – Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) Staff Category Total WTE.

2.      Please provide me with the measured number of staff vacancies (Funded Establishment minus Current Staff in Post) for each of the following staff groups within the timescale 01/04/21 to 31/03/22.

•       Registered Nurses

•       Registered Midwives (if applicable)

•       Registered Nursing Associates (if applicable)

3.      Please give a breakdown of type of job, area the vacancy is in and numbers of posts and pay bands (i.e. Head of Midwifery, band 6 A&E staff nurse, band 5 labour ward midwife). Please provide whole-time equivalents, WTE.

4.      The Time to Hire target set by NHS Improvement is 21 days. Please clarify whether the Trust's Time to Hire is measured in actual days, or are some days excluded such as weekends, bank holidays or non-working days?

5.      Please could you provide the data for each individual Trust and hospital within the Trust, giving a breakdown of the vacancies (based on job grade outlined in question 3 by WTE). Please tell me how many of those vacancies (based on job grade) have been vacant for:

•       Less than 1 month

•       1 to 3 months

•       3 + months

6.      Please provide this information for the following NHS Trusts. Please could you separate the data for vacancies in each individual hospital within the Trust.

•       Barts Health NHS Trust

•       East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

•       East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

•       Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

•       Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

•       Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

•       Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

•       Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

•       King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

•       Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

•       Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

•       Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

•       Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

•       Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

•       Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

•       Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

•       Northern Care Alliance NHS Trust

•       Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

•       Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

•       Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

•       Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

•       St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

•       Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

•       The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

•       United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

•       University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

•       University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

•       University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

•       University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

•       University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

Your request was received on 15th May 2023, and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 

Response

A copy of the information is attached. 

Question 1

Unfortunately, NHS Jobs is unable to provide information regarding the total number of funded establishments or the number of staff in post for any organisation.

However, this information is already available in the public domain through NHS England’s (formerly NHS Digital) published statistics. It can be located here: NHS Workforce Statistics – NHS Digital

Questions 2, 3 and 6

A copy of the information is attached. 

The data shows a list of all adverts published on NHS Jobs between 01/04/2021 and 31/03/2022 for the specified trusts, filtered within the staff group of Nursing & Midwifery. Also attached is 22/23 for your information.

The post code field confirms the location of the vacancy. 

The information provided is limited to what the recruiting organisation supplies us with. For more detail on each position you may wish to write to each trust directly. A directory of trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) (including the ones provided in the data) can be found at the below web link: 

http://www.nhs.uk/servicedirectories/pages/acutetrustlisting.aspx  

Question 4

The reporting functionality within NHS Jobs includes time-to-hire calculations based on both a 7-day and a 5-day workweek. How the employers use and share this data is not dictated by the service. It's important to note that many of the organizations listed utilize third-party application tracking systems such as Trac, and therefore, they do not complete their recruitment processes through NHS Jobs or use the service to obtain their time-to-hire data.

Question 5

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHS Business Services Authority. Please be aware that NHS Jobs does not possess information regarding the duration of unfilled vacancies. This information exceeds the period during which the vacancy is visible on our service. As mentioned in point 4, many of the listed services use third-party application tracking systems. Consequently, NHS Jobs lacks any information beyond the advert close date, which limits our ability to determine the length of a vacancy or the recruitment process.

If you have any queries regarding the data provided, or if you plan on publishing, the data please contact nhsbsa.foirequests@nhs.net ensuring you quote the above reference. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented. 

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