NHS Scientist Training Programme - 2017 applicants!

Ah nice! and I understand the allocation based on how well you do in the interview but what I mean when I say undefined is for example if you go into the preferences section for some of the preferences it says

MP - UNDEFINED Medical Physics - KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

whereas for others its more specific like

MP- IMAGING (IONISING RADAITION) - and then a trust

Not sure why some specify a specialism and some say undefined.

That's what I thought .... did you get an interview for androoogy or reproductive science ?

I got one for Andrology and shortlist reserve for Repro, how about you?
Tbh now I'm left questioning everything in my life. It seems embryologists are the ones who can easily move over to Andrology if they want, or can go on to become lab managers, whereas I don't know if andrologists could transfer over to embryology and all lab managers positions want "senior embryologists"

You are doing an MA and a PhD at the same time?? Yes I suppose that universities see similar scenarios somewhat commonly, fortunately. Somewhere I read that you cannot be registered for a degree at two different universities - and when I submitted my PhD I had to sign a declaration saying that I was not registered at another university for any other degree but had to say I was on the STP, which is a taught MSc and unrelated to my research.
Some of the people in my year got their HR stuff done really quickly, once you're offered a place and you accept the national school transfer your info to the consultant who will be training you.

Hopefully the consultant is on the ball and forwards this to HR. Hopefully HR are on the ball so that they can get you to fill out any local information. Then you need to be on the ball to fill out their info and send it to them and the enhanced disclosure check people. Then they can take up to six weeks to sort that out. Then HR can give blah blah its a never ending paper trail where if something sits in someone's inbox for more than a day it gets forgotten. I imagine the reason that interviews are this early is to prevent such late final offers being sent out but the system isn't perfect. And surprisingly people don't like being emailed about how slow things are taking because it's never their fault...the older I get the more I think most people just make it up as they go along.

It is not a route to be an embryologist-I asked a head of clinic before applying. I only put repro as a choice but sadly Shortlist reserve for the 2nd time.

It is not a route to be an embryologist-I asked a head of clinic before applying. I only put repro as a choice but sadly Shortlist reserve for the 2nd time.

Hey guys,

Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question, I'm just getting a bit panicky.
When choosing preferences, the locations you put for 'no preference' would still be on the table for you if you don't get any of the locations you put down under 'preference' right?

Thanks

Hey, do you remember what kind of questions they asked on the general science station? thanks

Hi Josh,

As I have understood it, our online tests aren't looked at until after the interview process, therefore you will get an interview regardless of your test scores (I too am an in-service applicant)

Hey, do you remember what kind of questions they asked on the general science station? thanks

Of course I'll share my experiences but it's not great. So I had to give 8 weeks notice at my old job. I didn't get my official offer letter until about early August, and I'd already served my notice at this point. If I had given notice at this point I don't really know what would have happened. I took a calculated risk because I had had a recent enhanced disclosure for my current job at the time and couldn't think of any other possible reason of not being accepted.

About the study day. Some people can stay at home, I don't. It depends. On my rotation into other disciplines they said I can stay at home if I want on my study day. It would be something you'd have to discuss with your consultant.

Hey, thanks for your knowledge! I would appreciate any advice:

I have a renting situation, whereby my landlord needed to know in January whether we would be staying or leaving when our contract ends on July 1st, there was no option to stay until September... we said we would be leaving with hope of getting onto the STP.

Do you know when we find out if we have an offer, and whether its before June ideally to give me a month to sort out living for me and my partner?

And if you are given an offer, do you find out the location at the same time, or do you have to wait for that to be confirmed? and once location is confirmed is there absolutely any chance of it changing?

Many Thanks

Does anyone know what the odds are like ? For interview to offer ? Applicant number wise ... I applied for repro and have an interview - and there's only 7 posts eek!

The table I've attached is from 2-3 years ago but should give an idea of the number of applicants per place. The last two columns refer to i) Total number of applicants, ii) Number of applicants who successfully passed the aptitude tests and were eligible for shortlisting. They interview 3x the number of posts available for each discipline - so for clinical biochemistry with 21 direct posts they would aim to interview 63 people. All things being equal interviewees have a 1 in 3 chance of being hired.