Permanent Recruitment      

FOI REFERENCE: 24518 FOI DATE: 11^th November 2024      

Please provide the names of framework agencies you have used to fill your permanent roles between April 2024 and October 2024.  We would not have a list as recruiting managers would engage directly. 

Please provide the names of NON framework agencies you have you used to fill roles between April 2024 and October 2024. As Above

For each agency, can you specify the types of roles (e.g., nursing, doctors, AHP positions) they were contracted to recruit? Not Applicable  

Please provide a breakdown of the number of positions filled through each agency by job role and department.

What is the expenditure on international agency recruitment projects for permanent positions between April 2024 and October 2024 128 Nurses International Educated nurses arrived through the programme in 2023/24  

What is the expenditure on international agency recruitment projects for permanent positions between April 2024 and October 2024 for Nurses? £538K

What is the expenditure on NON-International agency recruitment projects for permanent positions between April 2024 and October 2024 for Doctors?  None recorded on finance ledgers

What is the expenditure on NON-International agency recruitment projects for permanent positions between April 2024 and October 2024 for Nurses? Not applicable

What criteria does the Trust use to decide to engage an external agency for permanent recruitment? We would only use external recruitment agencies in exceptional circumstances for hard to fill roles which we’ve been unable to fill via traditional methods of recruitment.