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This one's for Rosie (I know you read it)
Rosie is my middle child; my youngest daughter.
She is brilliant (all my kids are brilliant, I just don’t tell them very often)
She is trained as a Physiotherapist and we are really proud of what she’s done, but it’s tough getting a job as a Physio at the moment.
Rosie’s dream is to be a hospital Physio, looking after people who are sick, making a difference and saving the NHS one patient at a time (just like her Dad was going to)
It took Rosie just a little bit less time than it took her Dad to realise that the NHS will grind you down, stamp on you and step over you to get to the next one.
Rosie went for a job interview to be a Band 5 Physiotherapist at Sheffield after much rejection in different places.
Sheffield is the city she studied in and loved it.
There were four jobs and 400 people applied.
She got an interview and she is brilliant at interviews (I know I am biased)
Apparently, the reason she didn’t get the job is because she didn’t discuss the Trust values in her interview.
What a load of sh**e.
The NHS does not value its values in any way.
It doesn’t look after its staff the way it is supposed to.
It doesn’t even look after its patients the way it's supposed to.
It’s not the fault of the NHS, but on that day that Rosie went for an interview with 11 other people, it was one of 5 days of interviews. 60 people were interviewed for 4 jobs, out of 400. The interviews were face-to-face with workshops.
It would have been much better for the NHS to just appoint randomly from all of the people who met the basic criteria. Malcolm Gladwell showed us why that’s more effective (and more inclusive)
Rosie didn’t express the Trust values often enough or at all during her interview because she wasn’t asked, but she was expected to know that she should have done.
There should probably be a course on how to take NHS job interviews from an inclusive, diverse and well-rounded approach.
Courtney started working with me two weeks ago, having worked in the NHS in Nottingham in various different departments, ending as a Pharmacy Technician.
Before I wrote this, I asked him to come into my office to tell me whether he knew what the NUH Trust values were. He explained to me that he didn’t know them off by heart, but he should know them because if he ever went for an interview he’d have to recite them.
On the day Rosie got rejected from Sheffield, she was offered an interview at Loughborough University in performance sport. That is the job for Rosie, or similar.
This is how the NHS continues to die.
The people who are committed, who are brilliant, who are hardworking and bright get pushed somewhere else by the bureaucratic sh**e that has nothing to do with values.
Blog Post Number - 4359
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