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)

1. 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.

2. 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?

3. 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

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

•       Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

•       Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

•       Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

•       Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

•       South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust

•       George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

•       Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

•       Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

•       Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

•       Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

•       North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

•       Whittington Health NHS Trust

•       Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

•       Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

•       Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 

Your request was received on 25th May, and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 

Response 

A copy of the information is attached. 

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. To obtain this information, you would need to submit an FOI request directly to the relevant employers

We have provided 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 (attached). This list will include the relevant information you require.

Same as above.

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 organisations listed utilise 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.

Please be aware that NHS Jobs does not hold 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 means we are unable to determine the length of a vacancy or the recruitment process.

The post code field in the attached spreadsheet 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 Care 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  

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