NHS Clinical Scientist Recruitment

It all depends how quickly they can get the admin sorted...they told us yesterday that with all the holidays coming up and people going away etc. that they'll try for the 28th April, BUT it may be that we'll have to wait til beginning of May.

Well that's encouraging. I was in the very first day of interviews, so hopefully we'll be among the first to hear the outcome as well

Ooh, hello! Our paths may have crossed this very day!

It was scary wasn't it?! I keep thinking about it, wondering what I did well and what I did not so well...argh! I wonder which station you struggled with..? I'm aching to discuss things but as Venividivici said we might all be back on here next year and I don't want to give new applicants an advantage

Good luck anyway! x

Crazy hey..its less than 200 more like 167 (this recruitment drive) and 25 (in-service route).

Some of my questions and answers are playing back in my mind even though its been a day ago....especially the questions I struggled with.

We hear either way don't we? Cos i think if they take longer than the 28th i will assume i've been unsuccessful so i hope they hurry up about it.

Yeah, I think it was said previously that everyone who attended AC will get a letter informing of the outcome!

Yeah, I think it was said previously that everyone who attended AC will get a letter informing of the outcome!

Tomorrow is the last day of interviews so I am sure people will start hearing back any time after that.

Also take two photocopies of each document or they will ask you to email scans of the IDs.

uh oh, I've lost the contact email address for the ID scans!!!

Does anybody have the email address?? Or is it different for different areas?
I'm medical physics.

THANK YOU!!!!

It was mscrecruitment[at]westmidlands.nhs.uk.

Panic over .

YES! I'd be surprised if anyonr said it was a walk in the park. Pretty intense experience overall. And I don't imagine most people have had an interview set-up like that before, which probably only added to the nerves.

Honestly it was evil. I totally screwed up most of the stations

Honestly it was evil. I totally screwed up most of the stations

I think making people wait 3 weeks for the outcome of an interview is really unprofessional. All the good organisations out there tell candidates within a few days or a week at the most. They really need to improve this for next year.

I think making people wait 3 weeks for the outcome of an interview is really unprofessional. All the good organisations out there tell candidates within a few days or a week at the most. They really need to improve this for next year.

Large profit-making organisations can be that quick, but aren't always. I had an application pending with a large international electronics company for far longer than three weeks after they cancelled or rearranged a number of assessment centres, then finally emailed me to say that they had decided that the role would be cancelled and asked if I'd consider an entirely different role in an entirely different part of the country. Considering this is the NHS, and the sheer volume of applications they've had, I'm pretty impressed, and they've been very clear of the schedule from the outset. Assuming they stick to it, we've all known where we stood. The only aspect I object to is that they don't inform candidates who haven't been shortlisted. It wouldn't have taken long to send a dear John letter, and would probably have saved on the phone calls from people who wanted to be sure.

On the style of interview, I know that some people might prefer one forty minute interview to four ten minute interviews, but I found this of the least stressful styles I've come across. At least if you couldn't answer a question you'd be able to try another station shortly, and you got to make four first impressions which is definitely fairer. Like everyone here I'm really not sure how mine went, and I'm being haunted by memories of one particularly long silence that came before my blind stab at an answer, but overall I think that whatever the outcome it was fair.