New website allows candidates to view and apply for NHS jobs on-line Health minister John Hutton today launched an on-line recruitment service for the NHS, which allows candidates to view job adverts and apply for positions on one website.
Forty-six NHS organisations have been picked to spearhead the new service (which is available at www.nhs.uk/jobs) and will start to advertise jobs on-line from this week. The service will be rolled out nationally in the NHS from March 2004.
The service is expected to save 24 million per year once it is rolled out in 2004. John Hutton said: To build on our success in increasing the numbers of key staff in the NHS we need to make it much easier for people to find out what jobs are available. We also need to speed up recruitment so that people can access the rewarding careers that the NHS has to offer.
I am delighted that the Department is leading the way with the introduction of this service, which will not only help the NHS to recruit the people it needs, but also help candidates to find and apply for the jobs they want with as much ease as possible.
Department of Health figures suggest that as many as a quarter of a million people find new jobs in the NHS each year. The new service will allow NHS organisations to advertise jobs to millions of people at the touch of a button. It also means that there will be one place at which people can find and apply for jobs across the NHS.
The service is one of a number of Department of Health initiatives that will radically improve recruitment and retention of staff in the NHS.
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