April 2013 saw the greatest shake up of the NHS since its formation in 1948. Under the Conservative Government all Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) were abolished and replaced with two new types of organisations: Commissioning Support Units (CSUs) and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).
The outgoing PCTs had been in operation for just over 10 years and were responsible for all the funding and commissioning of services throughout the NHS in England. The new CCGs have now taken over this role, effectively providing all the funding to GP led organisations.
Further upheaval has been evident during the last 12 months with the CSUs being put in "competition" with one another in respect to the support services they supply to the CCGs. A number of CSUs have already closed and more are currently in merger discussions leading to redundancies and early retirement of many experienced NHS staff. A recent report in E-Health Insider highlights redundancies within 14 of the 18 CSUs over the next 6 months, despite the organisations being just over 12 months old.
Despite all of this upheaval, the modernisation of the National Health Service’s infrastructure and services continues at a great pace. In addition, we are seeing increased “commercialisation” of many services, which are now provided by private companies.
These dramatic changes have increased the need for more people of different backgrounds within all the Non-Medical and Non-Clinical sectors which support the NHS. The Royal College of Nursing recently warned that patient care is being put at risk because the NHS has lost close to 4,000 senior nurses since 2010, but the support roles away from direct patient care are equally important. These supporting positions are essential to the overall performance and efficiency of the NHS and they cover the following 18 areas:
Admin & Clerical, Senior Management, Medical Secretaries, Legal Services, Library Services, Clinical Coding, Finance, IT, Project Management, HR, PR & Communications, Procurement, Estates, Hotel Services, Catering, Drivers, Stores and Security.
The substantial amount of activity caused by this reorganisation has reached online Job Boards. While the Job Board market is very large, it is dominated by huge “generalist” websites such as Jobsite, Monster and Total Jobs. Specialist recruiters all advertise on these boards, but there is widespread duplication resulting in confusion for candidates and unnecessary costs produced by advertising the same job on several boards.
Non-Medical/Non-Clinical NHS professionals now need a focused website aimed specifically at their sector. In an effort to remedy this situation, Mark Cherry and his team have created GoToJobBoard, a specialist Job Board that serves the NHS’s Non-Medical staff exclusively. GoToJobBoard has functions similarly to popular Job Boards, features up to date NHS news and provides a platform for a professional community, much like LinkedIn. A standalone, dedicated website will help to bring together and secure the highest standard of staff for the NHS.
Headed up by Mark Cherry, who has the advantage of being from a specialist recruitment background and has previous experience recruiting for the NHS sector; GoToJobBoard has been created by Recruiters for Recruiters.
“Coming from a Recruitment background myself I am familiar with the problems Recruiters and Candidates often encounter when using online job boards. The aim of GoToJobBoard is to eradicate these issues and bring the Recruiters and the Candidates together in an online community where everyone has one thing in common, they are all currently working for or interested in working for the NHS. Our site is exclusively for NHS experienced professionals so therefore we provide everyone on our site access to specific pool of up to date NHS information.”
Mark Cherry – Marketing Manager at GoToJobBoard.com
GoToJobBoard believe that they are currently the only provider of a recruitment service exclusively catered to the Non-Medical/Non-Clinical professionals of the NHS and pride themselves on delivering a focused community for their specialist Candidates and Recruiters. To keep up to date will all the latest News, Blogs and Jobs from the NHS, register today on www.gotojobboard.com.
